Week 7 Blog - Reading like a writer

This reading was interesting in the fact that it looks at reading from a different perspective. I personally have never been a good reader. This kind of made me rethink my reading to help my writing, pretty weird stuff. Essentially, the idea is that if you read in a manner of questioning everything (as you should in the other aspects of your life as well) you will realize that writers have certain techniques and strategies to hold your attention and make you feel certain ways after reading that page or chapter. If you can re-track your steps and find out how you got to the point of crying into a soggy pile of pages, you will see that the writer wrote in a way to attach you, the reader, to the material in the book by using certain writing conventions and strategies. If you as a writer can identify these strategies while reading you can implement them into your own writing. Reading like a writer makes you a better writer. Keeping this in mind we can look into every choice a writer made on their piece of writing. Whether that be from writing according to a certain genre or audience they are trying to reach, to what size of words they are using. It's pretty sweet how much you can learn by reading other people's work if you think about it. Overall, I thought the reading was decently cool. It was easy to understand what point they were trying to get across. I think their take on analyzing other writer's pieces in a way to improve and benefit your own writing is a peculiar stance to take on reading but a very valuable one at the same time.