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Improve Your Writing By Reading by Joshua Gray
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So you want to be a writer? One way to improve your writing is to do a lot of reading. You need to familiarize yourself with quality writing. If you do this, you will still develop your own style, but you'll learn a lot about technique. If you want to write a memoir, you need to be reading memoirs. Learning by imitation is natural. It's the first way we learn when we are children. As adults, we still use imitation to practice skills before we have them mastered. To write a good memoir, you'll want to read other people's contributions. Don't limit yourself to the sort of books you would normally read for fun. Read all kinds of books written about others ? biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, even biographical pieces in periodicals. When you read for pleasure you read to enjoy but not to be critical. When you read as a writer, you need to read more consciously. Read to see how others handle the structure of telling their story. What can you get inspiration from? What structural elements might be useful in your own work? How do the writers you are reading introduce the action, and the various characters? How do they propel the storyline or action forward? Do they use suspense to keep the reader engaged? Does the storyline drag, or did they start close enough to the final crisis or climax? How do the turning points of the stories develop? How are conflicts resolved? Every writer has techniques he or she uses, watch how the authors you are reading handle description of actions, characters, and settings. Pay attention to the use of point of view. Watch tone, and see whether it fits with the story being told. Does the author avoid being preachy? If so, how? What about unpleasant truths? Not everyone has an easy and neat story to tell. How does the author handle the difficult parts, and the transitions between segments? There are other topics beyond technical concerns that you should also be paying attention to. Pay special attention to authors who have a similar topic or theme as you do. Are there elements that you can mirror in your own work? Does this give you a fresh take on your own writing? If nothing else, reading these other memoirs will help jog your memory. You'll have a better idea of the type of thing to include. Your reader wants the richest and fullest description possible. dissertation writing
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