Reading & Researching
Welcome everybody to another blog session. In this blog I will
like to discuss the R&R (Reading and Researching).
Any writer must go through this process. A good writer (my
personal opinion) cannot be a good writer without doing these two. Yeah I
understand that you write on experience, personal knowledge, and intelligence;
however, you still need to understand that this is an important process. I will
give you my opinions why. 1. Learn about subject you are writing about. 2.
Grammar improvement.
1. When I was writing Masquerade, which the story had eroticism. I
really did not know anything about Masquerade ball room and very little on
eroticism.
I read books and searched the internet for two years studying
styles of masquerade ballroom mask, drawing concepts of lingerie/wardrobe of
how he characters would be described in the story, and even the personality of
the character taking on an alter ego of the persona that they portrayed behind
the mask. Also, I looked videos on youtube dealing with masquerade and neo erotic themes.
In addition since I wrote the story to be an erotic noir, I did a lot
of research on noir films and novels.
2. Grammatical errors are one of the major issues that majority of
writers have. I don't care if you are a great scholar at a major university.
When you write that first draft, there will be mistakes. Reading other people
work or just a news paper now and then will improve how you write. The best
remedy to kill grammatical errors is to have two tools beside you...A good
dictionary and thesaurus. Yes this two simple tools can prevent you from
spelling errors, repeat of words, and grammar structure. Some would say
"Why don't you use word spell check." I know, I know, it's easy and
fast; but I find it a lot of times that Word does not keep up with up to date
words so why not learn proper English the old way.....from a book!
