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Does reading improve your writing? Or is there a special type of reading you have to do?

>> No.19510218
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>>19510209
>Sorry babe, you are in the way of me getting the "Big Book of Pokemon". Can you please move?

>> No.19510225

>>19510209
Reading good books with good prose improves your writing because you pick up on subtle things that you will knowingly or unknowingly transfer into your own writing. Reading schlock shitty reatard shit can also improve you because you can see what not to do.
I'm so lonley bros I want a cute gf so bad

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>>19510225
You'll make it one day, anon. And so will I. It will be breathtaking.

>> No.19510253

>>19510209
Nice NIke's you stupid bitch. Are you reading Harry Potter? That's cute. Ever heard of Dostoevsky? You haven't? Figured as much. Why don't you take your STARBUCKS and go back to Chad's house. This is Barnes and Noble.

>> No.19510465

>>19510209
Naw I don't think so. I write a lot and never reed. I think I'm bretty good.

>> No.19510745

>>19510253
Bruh based.

>> No.19511130

>>19510209
>imagine the smell

>> No.19511138

>>19510218
kek

>> No.19511144

Reading helps you to discover what you like in prose and what you dislike in prose, which helps you to better analyze and improve your own work. Fiction is also the transmission of ideas through storytelling, and can help you have a better understanding of the world, from which you can build your own analysis to transmit through your own work.

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>Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

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>> No.19511199

>>19511148
who's that

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>> No.19511258

I understand wanting to read in different spaces but why on the floor of a bookstore, take it to a bench

>> No.19511280

>>19511199
zat's faulkner

>> No.19511431

>>19511258
You have to buy it to read it on the bench.

>> No.19511458

>>19510209
I'm so lonely bros

>> No.19511467

>>19511258
Have you seriously never been to a barnes before?

>> No.19511473

Idc if she's reading YA or vidya lore trash, I need a gf like that bros

>> No.19511474

>>19511258
She isn’t reading, just staring at a page while Becky takes a photo for simpstagram.

>> No.19511476

>>19511148
Faulkner is the best writer America has ever had so you guys better listen to that man

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>>19511175
>>19510209

>> No.19511813

>>19511803
kek

>> No.19511944

>>19510209
I just don't get no show socks. Why would you want to trick people into thinking you aren't wearing socks?

>> No.19512052

>>19511944
because it looks tacky

>> No.19512063

>>19510209
no special type. just read what you like. that should help because hopefully you're writing the kind of stuff you think you would like, so it should work out.

but reading a lot is important. you get a sense of the rules of writing, and how authors break those rules well versus breaking them poorly. also getting a sense of how writers do things you like inspires how you'll want to do things.

not being a reader at all and writing generally leaves your stuff reading like some teenager's diary. learning how to avoid bad writing is why you read.

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>>19510209
>Please let me smell your feet, I beg of you, just a whiff of your delicate soles so I can vigorously masturbate to the memory later

>> No.19512207

>>19510253
I was with you until you reddit'd out baby's first russian writer. Dostoevsky is good but don't turn your nose up in that case lmao pseudointellect

>> No.19513084
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First, you emulate to master your medium. This is true for all students of art.

>> No.19513096

>>19510209
Theoretically yes for me no since I read a bunch of academic his books so write in that style now

>> No.19513101

>>19511803
Lol

>> No.19513123

>>19510209
Yeah, especially reading within your genre. You learn what you like and dislike. If it's fiction, it's helpful to see what kind of stories are popular and what's already been told.
>>19511431
>>19511467
If you buy a small coffee or even a bottled water, you can read in the cafe as long as you want. I've never even had someone ask me to buy the book before.
>t. didn't like paying for comics as a teenager.

>> No.19513131

>>19513084
pretty much this
it is the same with music painting and sculpture
if you dont do that you practicaly just prolonge the proccess for no reason

>> No.19513136

>>19510225
>Reading schlock shitty reatard shit can also improve you because you can see what not to do.
Unless it's all you read then it causes irreparable damage to your writing ability.

>> No.19513401

>>19513084
>Tiny one room apartment
>Stove takes up 1/5 of the floor space
God I wish that was me.

>> No.19513407

The only thing that’s better than reading when it comes improving your writing is writing.

>> No.19514090

>>19512207
>that's the joke

>> No.19515202

>>19510253
Pretty sure everyone's heard of Dostoevsky. He's a very popular mainstream author.

>> No.19515262

>>19510209
I'm glad my gf mostly reads German and Russian language novels, I'm not sure I could cope with a /lit/ girl with shitty opinions, so I'd rather be with someone I can't understand.

>> No.19515265

Writing improves your writing

>> No.19515308

>>19512107
based and feetpilled