You Are What You…Read

Sometimes, as writers, we focus so much on the act of putting our pen to paper that we forget to look at what other writers have put on paper. But I’m not talking about examining how Faulker constructed his paragraphs or how J.K. Rowling created her story arcs. Reading as a writer involves much more than that. I know that a lot of creative writing courses and writing workshops focus on the act of reading as a way to teach the mechanics of writing. In fact, I myself am guilty on a number of oc...