Reading Between the Lines

By mugen shiyo · Aug 23, 2011 · 591 · 3
  1. Does your being a writer change your experience in reading books? When I am reading, half of me is enjoying the story, have of me is admiring the writing style, or wondering what he was thinking when he wrote this, how he set up the scene and where is he trying to lead me. I guess it would be like a movie producer watching a movie. Half of him enjoys the movie, but the other half just can't help taking notes and critiquing- looking through the movie to the set-up, the camera-men, the writers and all that. It gives reading an extra dimension for me to consider, I suppose.

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  1. Lemex
    For me, developing my writing has lead me to a more mature taste in books. This sounds like a good thing, but it's utterly ruined my ability to enjoy things I used to. For example. When I first started writing I was a H.P. Lovecraft fanatic, and now I just find him dull and silly.
    Lemex, Aug 23, 2011
  2. Radrook
    I'll take knowledge over ignorance any time even if it does reduce my reading choices. In fact, I find reading now far more fascinating exactly because I'm working on two levels.
    Radrook, Aug 23, 2011
  3. mugen shiyo
    I always like the books I started out with. They do seem silly in comparison sometimes, the way Night Rider is ridiculous now that I'm an adult, but they're good memories. My poetry though...in light of the poems I find that have no form but flow so well, my rhyming seems almost juvenile compared.
    mugen shiyo, Aug 24, 2011
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