Readers make the best writers…. I think almost every professional writer I know, heard, and read has repeated this.
People who read understand voice because they’ve heard a number of different writers use it.
Readers internalize pacing. The pacing of a story or poem is of the utmost importance.
People who read know more vocabulary. The thesaurus helps, but there’s nothing like knowing the perfect word in the necessary place.
Readers are not affected by others’ style but can recognize a need for individual style.
It’s important to read extensively in your own genre. In academia, we refer to it by “adding our voice to the conversation.” One must know what is being done in order to respond, in any number of ways, to it.
People who read are aware of the benefits that serve their writing.
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Noreen Lace
Originally from the Midwest, Noreen Lace received an MFA from California State University where she now teaches. She believes in the beauty of language to express the darkness in life. She is the author of two novellas, West End and Life of Clouds, as well as a book of short stories. Here in the Silence. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in national as well as international journals, including The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, The Oleander Review, Vine Leaves Press (Australia), Silver Stream Journal (Ireland), Pilcrow and Dagger, Fishfood, and others. "Memorial Day Death Watch," a memoir of her father's passing, placed as a finalist in Writer Advice, while her poem, "All at Once," was published as a finalist in Medusa's Laugh Contest issue. More work is always in progress.
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