Honing Your Observation Skills
by Peggy Bechko
Bet you didn’t know you had to be a lifetime student of human behavior in order to be a writer of any ability, did you? Well, you do, so get used to it.
If you’re a writer of any stripe, that’s exactly what you are. Because, if you aren’t, your writing will be stale, boring, and strumming away on one note. Whether you’re a fiction writer, a screenwriter, a journalist, a copywriter or any combination or discipline you must study people.