Get Them Reading and Keep Them Reading

Interesting insights into hooking your reader and keeping them turning the pages ~ Flynn

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Secrets to Successful Fiction Writing – a reader’s point of view

     

Great fiction authors have a knack for getting us, the readers, quickly interested in the story, invested in the characters, and keeping us ready to turn each page and continue upon a journey they have set up for us. I spent some time taking a closer look at how they do this, methods for immediate involvement in the tale, and have found a few helpful devices and techniques to use in my own story-telling. Some aspects seemed incidental, until I noticed these same parameters used in almost every book and story the particular author had written.

Dean Koontz
– When I began reading What the Night Knows, I noticed on my first night of reading I had easily progressed to the 5^th chapter. Once I am that far in, there is no turning back – I…

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