How to read when you are writing
Many writers said: “I do not see in my writing”. They think it will contaminate their voice, that whatever style they’re reading will somehow seep into their work and it really won’t be theirs. This is only a problem if you write a romantic cities in the 21st century and the last time the Pride and Prejudice your role allows you to sound like their English in the living room, rather than New York City nightclub!
In fact, if you do not read, and you work on your books, you missed a lot of ways to learn from the past and the present author who also relate to the same issues you struggle. I have heard that if the difficulties of a writer or writers block, it is because he or she did not do homework, and homework is to read a writer. But how do you know what to read and how to make use of it? The following are four simple tips on getting the most out of your reading.
Determine the strategy / technology you use in your books
Take out your book’s outline (or notes or whatever pages you have written so far) and highlight the writer’s tools you are using. Now you may not see them as tools. For instance, your character is sitting in a car and she’s having a memory of a car accident that happened when she was little and you tell the story of the accident. This is a flashback. Maybe you used internal dialogue, maybe you’re telling your fiction novel in the 2nd person voice or your whole book is historical fiction so getting the setting right is crucial.
Find a book, the authors use a similar technology
Sometimes the right book will come to you automatically. Writing in the 2nd person voice? Then Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City comes to mind. This is a great example of a strategy is very delicate to the success. I would definitely want to read it if I wanted to be as effective as he was with his new fiction book. Great examples of historical fiction include The Known World by Edward P. Jones and anything by Toni Morrison or Isabel Allende. When I was learning how to use flashbacks effectively in fiction novel download I re-read Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides and The Mourner’s Bench by Susan Dodd.