No beats or tags to accompany the dialogue. Instead, dialogue began with a dash and ended with a paragraph return. The author, for whatever reason, had opted to do away with quotation marks. It was a freebie, so I didn’t look at a sample first. The knowledge, or more accurately, lack thereof, doesn’t keep them from enjoying the story. One of the club members looked at me, eyes widened in surprise. The rule I learned was that the speaker owns the paragraph. I recall pointing out that an author was pulling me out of the story because they had more than one character acting in a paragraph, so it was hard to tell who was speaking. Or, a sub-genre I was unaware of, “book club fiction.” I’m usually the odd woman out, since I don’t read much “literary” fiction. I find it enlightening to see what resonates with the members, as well as what turns them off. A narrator would hate that alliteration, but it works for the written word.That sentence would flow better if the clauses were reversed.She’s used that word five times on this page.We have internal editors who insist on reading along with us and shouting their opinions. As writers, we don’t read the same way “normal” people do.
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