Reader or Writer?

[spyscribbler]

This is the niftiest little website. I love that you can even stick in a little poll over there on the side. That little poll, bless its heart, cracks me up. It's not the first poll that asks: are you a reader or a writer? I hear that question all the time, all over the place.

I don't know how to answer it, LOL. Well, see, I was a reader first. I read for years and years and years, did a little writing around there, but then after school, I resumed only reading. I've been writing for about a decade, even get a few pennies, but I've never stopped reading.

If I had to choose just one, what would I choose? Would I give up reading so I can write? Or would I give up writing to read? Do people really stop being readers when they start being writers? Which do I do more?

Well, writing, but I feel I *should* do more reading than writing to be a good writer. But then I've read more books than I've written, that's for sure.

*smiles*

Which are you more of? More reader? More writer? What would you choose, if you had to choose??

[Daniel Hatadi]

If I absolutely had to choose, I would rather be a writer than a reader. Only problem is, I don't see how you can be a decent writer if you don't read.

With the poll, I'm assuming that you still read even if you don't answer that way. I'm just trying to get a breakdown of the membership on Crimespace so I can cook up some new features. And thank you for blessing the poll's heart. It really does appreciate it. :)

[spyscribbler]

Figured as much. I just had this insane hesitation to click "writer," as if it meant I couldn't read anymore. I love books! I want to be a reader! I don't want to give them up! :-)

I'm also the type of person who reads every single word in anything I sign, LOL.

[Angie]

That's so funny...I used the basic logic that if you're a writer, you also have to be a reader, though the reverse isn't necessarily true. So, I, uh, clicked writer.

[Sandra Ruttan]

Was it the name changed only or the gender? It'll make it easier to place bets on the ID...

Best advice I ever got: Keep Reading - Ian Rankin.

[Robert K. Foster]

That's why I picked "Publisher" :)

Actually I'd have to say I'm a reader first and a writer second and a publisher third...

Since you have to understand the previous in order to become the following.

Okay, Okay, starting with the first in the chain I'd have to say I'm a Reader.

[spyscribbler]

LOLOL ... isn't it hard to choose?

[Jude Hardin]

If I had to give up one, it would reading. It would force me to write more, so I would have more to...read. :)

[Dennis Leppanen]

What a wonderful dissertation, I write, I read, I read, I write. We were all readers first.

Words are a funny business, sometimes we eat them...sometimes we have to write them to eat...

[spyscribbler]

LOLOL, Dennis. That's why I prefer writing to talking. You've got editing time before someone makes you eat your words!

[spyscribbler]

Oh, B.G., that is REALLY cool! I found your story; and it certainly is a story! I'm going to have to re-visit that site often. I don't know that I could come up with a six-word story. It would be hard!

[JackBludis]

I've been more a writer than reader since I graduated from college. But I don't know how anyone can write today without knowing "what's out there."

[Terri]

I was an avid reader until I became a writer, now I find it hard to enjoy being a reader because I can't turn off the writer. =)