Friday, July 07, 2006

Things Not To Do in Fiction

Don't switch perspective right in the middle of a scene. If we're in the mind and feelings of Bob don't suddenly switch to Cindy's head. It's disturbing, breaks the flow and leads to the reader going back and rereading what they just read to see what they missed.

And don't do what's in this book I'm reading right now. If your character is adopted don't make them confront their birth mother as she's in her hospital bed waiting for breast cancer surgery. It's not going to make your character likeable. Really.

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