| Guilty reading |
[Mar. 8th, 2009|01:20 pm] |
I've been over indulging in my tendency to read many things at once. The kindle makes this too easy. I'm stalled at the beginning of Underworld while having read any number of dark urban fantasies. trash fantasy, when someone asks what I'm reading. I'm too embarrassed to admit titles.
I'd like a kindle feature for these never ending fantasies: a series dekrufter. I hate when authors have to revisit what has happened before in stories ad nauseam in case we've forgotten their character's motivation. I should be able to press a button to turn off the kruft unless I've forgotten. flip, look at the source code, flip, recompile the story.
Speaking of explaining a character's motivation, I apologize to anyone who has had to sit through that in any of my stuff. I'm sorry. I'll never do it again. These dark urban fantasies have way too much blah blah blah let me tell you what you should think blah blah blah until they get to the action. my eyes glaze over until I get to the dialog. or I trim down the blahblah in my head. They give me the same feeling I get when I want to rewrite some code just because it is annoying to read.
probably I need to work out the blahblahblah to figure out the characters, but not let it out into the real world. unless in very short form. |
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