{"id":30726,"date":"2022-10-15T23:37:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T03:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/?p=30726"},"modified":"2022-12-26T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T07:20:11","slug":"read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2022\/10\/read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Read like a writer, write like a reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>To become a better writer, read better writing<\/h2>\n<p>When I entered first grade, I got a brand-new red text called <em>We Can Write What We Can Read<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30727\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30727\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2022\/10\/read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader\/read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader.png\" data-orig-size=\"450,300\" 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=\"read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We can write what we can read&lt;\/strong&gt; What\u2019s on your reading list? 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&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/portrait-reader-glasses-holding-book-looking-1709068501&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Image by CarlosDavid&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader-300x200.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader.png\" alt=\"Read like a writer, write like a reader\" title=\"Read like a writer, write like a reader\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader.png 450w, https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/read-like-a-writer-write-like-a-reader-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>We can write what we can read<\/strong> What\u2019s on your reading list? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/portrait-reader-glasses-holding-book-looking-1709068501\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Image by CarlosDavid<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back then, the title encouraged 6-year-olds to pattern letterforms, words and sentences after the prose we muddled through in our <em>See Jack Run<\/em> primers. Today, that phrase spurs me to consider what I read as inspiration for what I write.<\/p>\n<p>And if I want my reading to influence my writing, I\u2019d better be reading the best stuff out there.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s on your reading list?<\/p>\n<h3>Ann\u2019s reading list<\/h3>\n<p>For me, \u201cthe best stuff\u201d includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The feature story structure<\/strong> of <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The techniques<\/strong> writers from <em>Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly<\/em> and <em>The New Yorker<\/em> steal from the fiction writers to draw readers through even the longest story<\/li>\n<li><strong>Warren Buffett\u2019s tricks<\/strong> for clarifying the most complex financial formulas through humor, anecdote and metaphor in his letters to shareholders<\/li>\n<li><strong>The analogies the best science writers use<\/strong> to explain complicated concepts<\/li>\n<li><strong>The fanciful wordplay in Dr. Seuss books<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The word pictures<\/strong> NPR\u2019s \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d and \u201cMorning Edition\u2019\u201d reporters paint<\/li>\n<li><strong>The transitions at the ends of chapters of mystery books<\/strong>, especially Dick Francis novels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What writing, publications and online communications do you most admire? Add those to your regular reading list \u2014 and pay attention to the craft behind the words.<\/p>\n<h3>Forage more widely.<\/h3>\n<p>You\u2019ll also want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2022\/10\/5-step-creative-process\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"\">forage widely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That is, make sure you\u2019re looking at great pieces of communication \u2014 not just the ones you need to gather information and conduct transactions in your daily life.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I subscribe to <em>New York<\/em>, even though I live in Portland; <em>Saveur<\/em>, even though I use my oven for sweater storage; and <em>Men\u2019s Health<\/em>, although I\u2019m not a man \u2014 and, frankly, not that interested in being healthy, either.<\/p>\n<p>Beware the \u201cbut it\u2019s not like our publication\/company\/style\/industry\/specialty\u201d response. If you\u2019re only willing to pick up ideas from communications that are just like yours \u2014 say, the websites of Iowa insurance companies that specialize in agricultural coverage \u2014 your ideas will be as limited as your foraging.<\/p>\n<p>As brilliant marketing expert Dan Kennedy says, looking only to your own kind for ideas is a form of creative incest. Like actual incest, he says, the products of creative incest just get dumber and dumber and dumber with each generation.<\/p>\n<h3>Take Faulkner\u2019s advice.<\/h3>\n<p>In a rejection letter to a budding writer, William Faulkner offered this advice:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you have read enough. I don\u2019t mean research, facts: who in the hell cares for facts. You have not read enough stories of people who have told their stories well. Read the following books, then rewrite \u2018Black Orchid\u2019 from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Brothers Karamazov<\/em>. Dostoevkey. <em>Buddenbrooks<\/em>. Thomas Mann. <em>Tess of the d\u2019Urbervilles<\/em>. Thomas Hardy. Any other Hardy you would like to read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may offend you. If it does, you have no business trying to write at all. If it does not, you may get somewhere someday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve developed your reading list, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/2022\/10\/how-do-you-read-like-a-writer\/\">read like a writer<\/a>, don\u2019t just read like a reader.<\/p>\n<p>_____<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201cYarn Burning,\u201d <em>Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em>, September 2006. 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