What Not Reading Does to Your Writing
2 days ago
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- Reading is essential for writers to understand and engage with their medium.
- TV brain prose lacks interiority and perspective, key strengths of written fiction.
- Visual media influences non-readers' writing, leading to bland, action-heavy prose.
- Prose allows manipulation of time and deep character exploration, unlike film.
- Repetition and redundancy are common in writing by those who don't read.
- Good writing balances showing and telling, avoiding over-detailed, meaningless actions.