{"id":30721,"date":"2022-10-15T22:37:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T02:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/?p=30721"},"modified":"2022-12-26T03:19:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T07:19:09","slug":"how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"How does reading help you become a better writer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Find a mentor in your favorite communications<\/h2>\n<p>I recently sent one of my email pals a plea for holiday reading recommendations. \u201cRead <em>The Confessions of Nat Turner<\/em> by William Styron,\u201d he responded. \u201cRead everything by William Styron. Then write like him.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30722\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30722\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer.png\" data-orig-size=\"500,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read this!&lt;\/strong&gt; To become a better writer, become a better reader. &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/es\/image-photo\/content-african-woman-charming-smile-laughs-1186050244&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Image by Cast Of Thousands&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer-300x180.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer.png\" alt=\"How does reading help you become a better writer?\" title=\"How does reading help you become a better writer?\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30722 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer.png 500w, https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer-300x180.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; 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To become a better writer, become a better reader. &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/es\/image-photo\/content-african-woman-charming-smile-laughs-1186050244&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Image by Cast Of Thousands&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer-300x180.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer.png\" alt=\"How does reading help you become a better writer?\" title=\"How does reading help you become a better writer?\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer.png 500w, https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/how-does-reading-help-you-become-a-better-writer-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Read this!<\/strong> To become a better writer, become a better reader. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/es\/image-photo\/content-african-woman-charming-smile-laughs-1186050244\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Image by Cast Of Thousands<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not bad advice. After all, as writers, we can learn a lot from the masters of our crafts \u2014 the William Styrons, the Stephen Kings, the Warren Buffetts, the folks who write for <em>The New York Times<\/em> and NPR and <em>Atlantic Monthly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h5>\u201cImitation is the sincerest of flattery.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Charles Caleb Colton<\/h6>\n<p>No doubt about it: The better your reading habits, the better your writing skills. So one of the best tools to write better is to make time to read and read and read. Reading a lot \u2014 reading fiction, reading books \u2014 will cut down on the amount of time it takes you to develop your own writing style. Once you practice reading and writing, you\u2019ll be so good, you\u2019ll not recognize your own work.<\/p>\n<p>I know. It\u2019s worked for me.<\/p>\n<h3>Beg, borrow and steal.<\/h3>\n<p>But too often, we don\u2019t make a point of studying our favorite writers for technique, form and process. Perhaps we shy away from following in their footsteps because we\u2019re afraid we might accidentally plagiarize.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it\u2019s just that writers don\u2019t have a long legacy of believing that, to paraphrase Charles Caleb Colton, imitation is the sincerest form of professional development.<\/p>\n<p>Visual artists do. You can\u2019t pass through the galleries of any major metropolitan museum without seeing an art student carefully copying a masterwork. The best artists themselves continue to study their favorites\u2019 work long after they themselves are quite accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, at a recent show of Edgar Degas\u2019 personal collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, viewers could contemplate a masterpiece by Delacroix, all the studies leading up to it, then Degas\u2019 own copies of both the masterpiece and the studies.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, they were seeing Degas\u2019 professional development process manifest in gilt frames.<\/p>\n<p>Writers and editors could learn a thing or two from our colleagues in the visual arts. Consider this your invitation to model the masters, to learn new techniques by studying your favorite writers\u2019 and communicators\u2019 work and patterning your own after them. It\u2019s the best way I know to improve your writing.<\/p>\n<h3>Take \u2018modeling lessons.\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>When freelance writer Chip Scanlan gets an assignment from a new publication, he\u2019ll type half a dozen leads from that periodical to learn its formula.<\/p>\n<p>Call it \u201cmodeling lessons,\u201d says Scanlan, senior faculty-writing at The Poynter Institute. \u201cYou can discover your own voice by listening to other writers. And one of the best ways to listen is by copying out their words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scanlan\u2019s not the first writer to try this trick:<\/p>\n<p>One writing professor tells of a turn-of-the-century writing commune where participants did nothing all day but type up the classics.<\/p>\n<p>Chaucer. Shakespeare. Moliere.<\/p>\n<p>From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., type, type, type. The idea was that the \u201cfeel\u201d of the prose would sink in, improving the writer\u2019s own work almost by osmosis.<\/p>\n<p>Now The Poynter Institute\u2019s doing the same thing, says Jacqui Banaszynski, assistant managing editor at <em>The Seattle Times<\/em>. The think tank is teaching \u201cmodeling lessons\u201d where students sit and type great journalists\u2019 work to learn their tricks.<\/p>\n<p>Other writers, from Somerset Maugham to Joan Didion, copied long passages from their favorite writers, memorizing every line, writes Stephen Koch in <em>The Modern Library\u2019s Writer\u2019s Workshop<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead: Give it a go. Type out a passage from your favorite novel, article or blog post. You might be surprised at how much you learn.<\/p>\n<p>Hate to type? Here\u2019s another approach for absorbing great writers\u2019 work, writes Kenneth Atchity in <em>A Writer\u2019s Time<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach day and each night before bed, read several pages of your favorite books \u2014 the plays of Shakespeare, the King James Bible, Mark Twain\u2019s essays, Hemingway\u2019s journalistic dispatches, Abraham Lincoln\u2019s letters \u2014 on an alternating basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As you sleep, Atchity says, your mind will absorb the prose.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Sources: Stephen Koch, <em>The Modern Library\u2019s Writer\u2019s Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction<\/em>, Modern Library, 2003<\/p>\n<p>Chip Scanlan, \u201cModeling Lessons,\u201d The Poynter Institute, Oct. 29, 2003<\/p>\n<div id='MC-ST' class='widgets_on_page wop_tiny1  wop_small1  wop_medium1  wop_large1  wop_wide1'>\n\t\t\t<ul><li id=\"custom_html-19\" class=\"widget_text widget widget_custom_html\"><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><a title=\"Master the Art of Storytelling - Ann Wylie's creative-content workshop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/corporate-communications-training\/writing-classes\/business-storytelling-training\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/storytelling-workshop.png\" alt=\"Master the Art of Storytelling - Ann Wylie's creative-content workshop\" title=\"Master the Art of Storytelling - Ann Wylie's creative-content workshop\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/250;float:left; text-align:left; margin: 0 auto; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 18x; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; color: #FFFFFF; max-width:100%; max-height:100%;\" class=\"img-max lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/storytelling-workshop.png\" alt=\"Master the Art of Storytelling - Ann Wylie's creative-content workshop\" title=\"Master the Art of Storytelling - Ann Wylie's creative-content workshop\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" style=\"float:left; text-align:left; margin: 0 auto; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 18x; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; color: #FFFFFF; max-width:100%; max-height:100%;\" class=\"img-max\"><\/noscript><\/a><h3>How can you tell better business stories?<\/h3>\r\n<p>Stories are so effective that Og Mandino, the late author of the bestselling <em>The Greatest Salesman in the World<\/em>, says, \u201cIf you have a point, find a story.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn to find, develop and write stories that engage readers\u2019 hearts and minds in our <a title=\"Master the Art of Storytelling - Ann Wylie's creative-content workshop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/corporate-communications-training\/writing-classes\/business-storytelling-training\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Master the Art of Storytelling workshops<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>There, you\u2019ll learn how to find the aha! moment that\u2019s the gateway to every anecdote. 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