For one I think writing implies reading and reading- writing. When you write you (I assume) are concious to some degree of how it would read, if not to others to yourself. And likewise when you read you are aware of the fact it has been written. One cannot exist without the other; they are dependent. I liken writers to painters. I thought there was a creative and a practical side- like there are painter/decoraters and then there are artists. I had told myself vocabulary and writing styles are to writers what colours and formats are to painters. I must have subconciously assumed established creative writers had great interest in the subject as a whole and couldn't lose the possibility they'll be influenced by other writers or writing. hmmm
I think it depends. It's either one or the other. I'm either completely into reading for a period of time and then I switch off, to where I'm just completely into writing.
I read a hell-of-alot more then I write. For me it's impossible to write more. Even "happy" balance? I love to read and write...so when I am doing either one, I'm happy as a clam. But when I am inspired to write and on a roll, I am in a whole nother world in itself...it's like a drug...a fix. I love it.
Read more, write less is ordinary. I think maybe it is because that writing demands much more thinking power than reading. As for reading, you can just input something. But writing asks for much more mental activities.
Well, I write quite often for school, but not for my own joy. In the idea that writing is defined as writing that I elect to do, I would say that I read much more often than I write. I guess I am just starting to face facts: I am not much of a writer. (I am definitely a stellar editor though. *sigh* ) It's not necessarily a happy balance --I would love to write more often, but I dont normally have the time. The more I read, the better writer and speaker I am. I know this. But the more I write, the more I get from another's writing because I can appreciate it and also have the mental tools to analyze and pick apart because I know the ins and outs of the craft. They're consistant with one another.
mulgan... by that reasoning, you'd also have to say walking and breathing are not independent things... or driving and singing, if one does both at the same time... and i just can't see that as a logical concept...
Stephen King once said that for an author to be successful, you must write four-hours a day, as well as read a book a week. Now, I'm not sure of anyone who has an extra ten hours a day to read and write. For me personally, being an unpublished author -- its deffinitly important to read more than than write more. After all, the books you read have been chosen amongst a bajillion other works to be printed, produced and dished out. So reading, figuring out which style works for you is very important. Is writing wrong? Of course not, you only get better by writing -- but figuring out what it takes to get to the top (published) is done by reading. EIE.
i can't quite tell exactly what you mean with that negative-loaded statement, though of course many things do influence artists, if that's what you were getting at... but in re reading/writing, you didn't say one 'influences' the other... only that they were not separate/independent pursuits ['entities' can't really apply to an action, so i may have misinterpreted what you said from the get-go]...
I didn't mean to cause any offence! Guess I could have been a bit frustrated about expanding upon the original question "How does one affect the other for you?" your answer meant 'they don't affect eachother for me' we coulda left it at that, but now my logic lies in tatters infront of the eyes of people who couldn't care less. let us never speak of this again lol...
Being a googler of everything I don't know, I found on Urban Dictionary: "1. amico mio A derogatory phrase used ironically as a putdown on many messageboards. Taken from Italian for “my friend” it first was used sarcastically and now essentially equates to a “flame” or calling another member a curse word. Phrase popular with fans of a Boston Red Sox" touche you fingerwinker ;-)
I read more than I write simply because I read what I write several times over and only write it once.
i don't have a clue what 'message boards' means, other than this forum kinda thing and i find it amazingly stupid that the simple, courteous, italian 'my friend' should have been turned into an insult! that it originated as a mindless sports fan slam is no surprise, however... if you took my use as anything but a friendly gesture, then you clearly haven't been reading my posts for long enough to know i'm a lover [the maternal kind], not a fighter...
