Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande

Author:Dorothea Brande [Brande, Dorothea]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: General, Fiction, Psychology, Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishing, Authorship, Composition & Creative Writing, Editing & Proofreading, Technique
ISBN: 9780874771640
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: 1981-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

Reading as a Writer

To get the most benefit from the corrective reading you are going to do after these periodical inventories, you must take a little trouble to learn to read as a writer. Anyone who is at all interested in authorship has some sense of every book as a specimen, and not merely as a means of amusement. But to read effectively it is necessary to learn to consider a book in the light of what it can teach you about the improvement of your own work.

Most would-be writers are bookworms, and many of them are fanatical about books and libraries. But there is often a deep distaste at the idea of dissecting a book, or reading it solely for style, or for construction, or to see how its author 99

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