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Editing and Reading Observations… Part 5…
Kris Gave Me This One… And I noticed it right off the last few nights of reading after she mentioned it. This one is a little more advanced than just needing to add depth or pacing or information flow. This one is “Why should the reader care?” Be honest with yourself. You have read or started to read a book or story and just shrugged. and put the book down. And the best sign of this problem is that the reader can’t remember anything that happened in the story just shortly before. The reader just doesn’t care. The writing might be fine, good depth fine pacing and so on. But…