When De Piero stressed the Super Amazing Greatness of "How to Read Like a Writer" by Mike Bunn, I was a little excited as to see what it really was about. Finally, after reading the article, I was quite stunned at it. My initial thought was, "This has always been a thing, but now someone has summarized that thing." The reason why Bunn's article spoke out to me was because I used to believe that not everyone could be a writer. However, with practice and shadowing, anyone can try.
One excerpt from the article that speaks to me is, "Would you want to try this technique in your own writing?" (109). I think that I do this often when it comes to my own writing--whether it is creative or a report. I believe that ideas aren't wholly original in this time and era, and I believe that various writers' techniques have definitely influenced my own. My mom had always told me that if I wanted to become smarter, I needed to read more. This is mainly the reason why most writers are readers, or they enjoy reading. Not that it is enjoyable (even if it is), but that you can learn from it.
Once someone has the mindset that Bunn has perfectly wrapped up into one article, they can start to have their own style by looking at what the best "choices the author made" (108) in order to "understand how such choices might arise in [their] own writing" (108).
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