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Kerry Sutherland's avatar

sometimes I'll stick with a book even when I don't like the writing just to see how it ends - so the story itself is fine, but the execution is troublesome.

I DNF more books than I used to because there are so many more to read and I figure why waste my time?

I love to read and write in first person present, mostly because I write and love to read thrillers of all sorts and I find it easier to fall into a story (both as a reader and writer) if we're in someone's head.

thank you for an interesting analysis!

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Andromeda Romano-Lax's avatar

Yes, too many books not to DNF if we're really not enjoying ourselves--usually!

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Colin Kersey's avatar

Excellent analysis and analogy.

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Andromeda Romano-Lax's avatar

Thanks, Colin!

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Caitlin Wahrer's avatar

This was SUCH a good piece Andromeda, I can't!! (I LOLed as I watched Andromeda, thriller reader, realize with horror that she'd already read the book.) And I'm left wondering if you can use any of these tricks to your advantage when you are writing something under the suspense umbrella that is not strictly commercial...for example, can you get away with as many POV changes within a single short chapter (for the sake of the page-turning benefit) if you also want deep character work? Probably not, but something to consider.

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