Comments on: You Are What You Read http://www.heretocreate.com/2007/09/27/you-are-what-you-read/ We are here to create, not merely to survive. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:10:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CSS http://www.heretocreate.com/2007/09/27/you-are-what-you-read/comment-page-1/#comment-48 CSS Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:51:43 +0000 http://www.heretocreate.com/2007/09/27/you-are-what-you-read/#comment-48 Thanks for sharing your experiences. I read nonfiction most of the time for the same reason: it gives me a base from which to start something new, whether it's a new hobby or a new chain of thought. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I read nonfiction most of the time for the same reason: it gives me a base from which to start something new, whether it’s a new hobby or a new chain of thought.

]]> By: Rob http://www.heretocreate.com/2007/09/27/you-are-what-you-read/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Rob Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:41:36 +0000 http://www.heretocreate.com/2007/09/27/you-are-what-you-read/#comment-47 You talk about reading the type of literature you want to create, and about analyzing fiction to see how the authors did their thing. I don't read much fiction, but I do enjoy paper and pencil role-playing games (RPGs). I am running one tonight, and I had my two players come up with three movies I needed to watch. I know my fiction reading has been deficient, and I wanted examples of the type of "literature" they wanted to feature in. This is also why I like reading non-fiction, it fires me up to do stuff. The more I read Lennard Zinn's repair book (Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance), the more I want to overhaul an old bicycle I bought myself, as opposed to having the bike shop do it. The more I read The Art of Urban Cycling, by Robert Hurst, the more I realize that traffic is something to respect, but it doesn't have to stand in the way of using a bike to get around in a city. Non-fiction inspires me to be the "hero" in my own life story, while good fiction allows me to observe someone else being the hero in their life story, and to look at philosophical and moral problems in a much more vivid way than reading books non-fiction books on philosophy has ever done for me. You talk about reading the type of literature you want to create, and about analyzing fiction to see how the authors did their thing. I don’t read much fiction, but I do enjoy paper and pencil role-playing games (RPGs). I am running one tonight, and I had my two players come up with three movies I needed to watch. I know my fiction reading has been deficient, and I wanted examples of the type of “literature” they wanted to feature in.

This is also why I like reading non-fiction, it fires me up to do stuff. The more I read Lennard Zinn’s repair book (Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance), the more I want to overhaul an old bicycle I bought myself, as opposed to having the bike shop do it. The more I read The Art of Urban Cycling, by Robert Hurst, the more I realize that traffic is something to respect, but it doesn’t have to stand in the way of using a bike to get around in a city. Non-fiction inspires me to be the “hero” in my own life story, while good fiction allows me to observe someone else being the hero in their life story, and to look at philosophical and moral problems in a much more vivid way than reading books non-fiction books on philosophy has ever done for me.

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