Does being a writer add or detract from your experience of reading a book or watching a movie?
Does being a writer add or detract from your experience of reading a book or watching a movie?
As a writer, I usually have part of my mind active dissecting any book structure, pacing, position of the narrator, relevance of subplots and a billion other writing techniques while forcing the rest of my mind to actually enjoy the book.
Indeed, the same applies to movies. Now, until recently, I thought that made me a freak and kept quiet about it. However, accidentally coming across the article copied below made me think i might not be the only one in that situation.
Do you experience similar automatic thoughts when expose to a written or audiovisual work of fiction?
How Writers Scrutinize Movies & Books (via http://fictiontoolbox.blogspot.com)
Do non writers read books & watch movies with the same scrutiny and intensity as writers? I’m always looking at the structure of a novel. How quickly does the writer hook me? Has the protagonist entered a point of of return? Is the First Plot Point…