"If you are an aspiring comic book writer, you should be reading books, and I mean, like, book books. I'm never going to discourage anyone from reading more books, and I really like the creator who posted that video, however, I don't think that reading books is where you're going to find the best way to strengthen your writing of comics. I just don't. And I say this as a person who, like, has been writing comics for a very long time, Peregrine Lake is my current comic, but also, like, is promoting their fifth novel. I am promoting my fifth novel, so, like, I think you should read more books. Read my books. But the skill of writing a novel and the skill of writing a comic I actually think are very different. Writing a comic is much more akin to writing a movie script, writing a television script, because comics are primarily a visual medium. Like, you can do things in the way that you write a comic that involve, like, how you want to frame things, how you want to, like, panels of silence can become important, and how you portray that silence is a very different thing in the form of a comic versus how you would try to handle that scene in a novel. Like, famously, when I was first coming up with Peregrine Lake, I tried at one point to actually turn it into a novel instead of moving it to a comic. And it just didn't, the story didn't work. The story needed the stillness of the visual medium. When you're writing a comic, you have to think about framing and scene and camera, which are very different than how you focus the POV in a novel. You have differences in the level of interiority that you can have with characters, at least in the modern world where we kind of don't use thought bubbles anymore. I mean, you could go back to that, but a lot of readers find that less engaging now. It varies. How you write dialogue, how you pace your scene, you're far more likely to hone that craft looking at movie scripts, looking at television scripts, and paying attention to how those scripts are then go to film. Like, how that then is interpreted by the director. It's like how you're going to be interacting with your artist if you're not doing the art yourself. And if you are doing the art yourself, you have to be thinking about the art while you write it. Like, that visual scene is not something you, you're not going to learn that from this. Other comics, of course, and then film and television are far more helpful for honing your comic writing. But it's true. If you read more books, the more stories you consume, you are going to become a better storyteller. You should read mine. They're queer urban fantasy. Buy my books."