Slow Reel vs. Quick Thrill
I write, I write and I write. Most of the time it's romance- contemporary; but sometimes it's a mystery or a sci-fi. I enjoy the characters who come to me and tell their stories. I attempt to tell it as accurately and as quickly as possible. But I think I need to slow down. Sometimes in my haste I cut corners or as I like to say 'sum it all up in a paragraph' when it would have been nice to slowly reveal it in a page or two. Are there any other writers out there that have that problem? What about readers, what do you prefer? Do you like for a writer to slowly take his/ her time revealing information or to sum it up and get to the good stuff? Me? I'm impatient, especially with my reading. I like to get to the gist of it and I hate it when a writer takes five pages to describe things that I couldn't care less about or setting up a scene. In my head I am screaming: "get to the story;" therefore I tend to write like I read: getting to the main point sometimes at the cost of summing to much of the story up.
I think there's a time to slowly reveal things and to reel the reader into the story; but then there is a time when like reaching for a orgasmic moment, you've just gotta go for it because you're about to blow. Guess that may have been a bad analogy; but you get my point. Tell me what do you think?
I think there's a time to slowly reveal things and to reel the reader into the story; but then there is a time when like reaching for a orgasmic moment, you've just gotta go for it because you're about to blow. Guess that may have been a bad analogy; but you get my point. Tell me what do you think?
Published on January 13, 2011 05:01
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heavy-machinery, orgasm, revelation, writing
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