Reading like a reader: You’re letting the story take you a sweep you away without worrying much about anything. You might have opinions–likes and dislikes. But for the most part, you’re just seeing where the story takes you.
Reading like a writer: You’re gutting each sentence, picking it apart and studying it. You look at what the writer does wrong and what they’ve done right and use both to help you improve. You’re actively trying to find flaws and strengths to avoid or borrow in your own writing.
When you want to relax and enjoy a story.
When you’re reading with intent to give feedback to other readers. This means reviews for sites like Goodreads or Amazon.
When you’re looking to up your writing skills.
When you’re beta reading, critiquing, or giving feedback to the writer directly.
A lot of writers find it nearly impossible to read like a reader anymore, which isn’t a bad thing. You can still 100% relax into a story and enjoy it once you’ve built up that reading like a writer muscle. It does take more work than just reading, so if you’re just starting out you may find it hard at first.
If you do read like a writer, you can of course still review a novel. However, you can’t expect all your critiques to fit into a review. Reading like a writer is very tailored frame of opinion in most cases, as it partly relates to your own writing style. A review is not the place to compare your writings. It’s a place for other readers to find out if they should give this book a chance. Complimenting/complaining about sentence structure is nitpicky and going to go over most readers heads–just say it wasn’t/was well written.
Like most things, reading like a writer vs reader is a wide spectrum. Plenty of readers that are not in fact writers read like a writer–especially voracious readers because they have a whole career of reading behind them. They’ve learned how to weed out bad books.
Throughout the course of a book you can do both in varying degrees, but at times it can be good to consciously flex those muscles. Strain and relax them. Become a better writer without even writing ❤
PROGRAM paint tool sai
TIME a week (thank sai for that -_- He ate the first drawing)
TABLET cintiq 13hd
He turned out the best out of them all OwO
Finished~!!! 🤩🤩🤩 (I gave up rendering April's armor and I suck at drawing BG ;;^;; sorry) currently having a terrible sharkweek cramps soooo that's why I finished this piece quickly 🥲
💖 Knight April & Village girl Irma 💗
No matter where you go there will be some 2k12 april haters anyway who are hiding there ass in a bush and complaining why april is a bitch why she didn't choose donie!! She was obviously playing with both of them ! Such a shitty character..... and you know what's so funny about them? They are like wow april you must accept the feelings of a sewer mutant turtle who is always stalking you without any good reason just because you seem so perfect in his eyes so forget about your shitty life your shitty dad cuz he's helping you!!! If someone help you in a bad situation in your life you must fell in love with him too cuz he helped you!!! :/
It was obvious that april wasn't ready for a relationship her dad was missing and even when they returned him so many shit happened that she cant focus on a fucking relationship specially an odd one !! It was obvious that she was seeking for some normality when she sticks to casey jones but she cant do it when she loved donnie deep down in her heart!! And its just fucking nicks fault for not making it obvious for some stupid haters oh no oh i forgot haters are gonna hate anyway they cant shut there fucking mouth and think for a minute........
Do the boys like treating their girls whether it's eating them out or letting her sit on their face? I have a feeling Donnie likes taking care of his princess but what about the other brothers?
Oh hell yes, they do! To varying degrees, of course, but my HC is that the guys have a natural desire to please their ladies (thanks to how they’d mutated, they kept most of their animalistic instincts, including ‘earning’ your mate) on top of the fact that Splinter raised them to be respectful, caring, and generous.
That doubles in lovemaking situations and drives them to go above and beyond the call of duty, so to speak. ;) (Plus they have incredible senses of smell and can smell when their girls are ‘needing’ them, and they just can’t resist tending to her when she’s like that…)
Some small personal HCs below!
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Finally finished my first digital art this month!
(the fact this piece took me 2 days long work to finish while battling with my toxic PERFECTIONISM side 🥲🥲🥲🥲 aint easy long run, y'all....I hurted both my butt and my neck, sprained my old neck)
When you love someone you become the happiest you’ve ever been.
On Drakón [Он – дракон] (2015) dir. Indar Dzhendubaev
STOP BEING SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT YOUR CREATIONS STOP SECOND GUESSING WHAT YOU REALLY WANNA DO STOP DEBATING IT'S WORTH. LET YOUR ART SERVE YOU INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND
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Just another poptart crazed mutant who loves TMNT and mahou shoujo animes
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