: Re: Should a writer be a good reader? Someone who wants to be a writer, has a good idea in his/her brain but is not much of a reader. Can that person be a good writer given that he/she has

@Cugini967

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Reading or listening to a written story told to you is the only way to witness examples of how to tell a story with just words. It's how you learn to craft pictures of the mind in the heads of your readers. Compare these three:

The streetlight flickering, unsteady shadows, a single man waiting.

Bob stood at the corner of mainstreat and first avenue. It rained. The light at this corner was defective. It flickered.

He stood at a corner, the flickering of the old bulb above him casting unsteady shadows in the puddle at his feet.

One is written as a poem, beautiful in it's own right, but not suitable to begin a story. The second example sounds rather rough, almost like a kid's essay. The last one takes what is essential to the picture and tries to make it one fluid description that reads easily.

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