Phil Sykora
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Chuck Wendig:
Here's a couple: 1. Do you read books strictly for enjoyment or analysis? Or is it a mix of the two? In which case: how do you decide which books to analyze and which to simply enjoy? 2. Any books on writing that you would recommend (besides your own you greedy bastard)?
Chuck Wendig
1. I read books for:
a) research
b) blurbage
c) enjoyment
but all of them end up in part as
d) analysis.
If a book truly entertains me and I fail to analyze it, it's because the book was so overwhelmingly good I forgot to deconstruct it. (If I'm asked to blurb a book, that's one of my measures of a book worth blurbing.)
2. MY OWN HA HA HA HA GREED okay, seriously, check out the books by Lawrence Block, read the Stephen King one, look for Save the Cat.
a) research
b) blurbage
c) enjoyment
but all of them end up in part as
d) analysis.
If a book truly entertains me and I fail to analyze it, it's because the book was so overwhelmingly good I forgot to deconstruct it. (If I'm asked to blurb a book, that's one of my measures of a book worth blurbing.)
2. MY OWN HA HA HA HA GREED okay, seriously, check out the books by Lawrence Block, read the Stephen King one, look for Save the Cat.
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