Did you know people have a problem with them? When I say people, I mean mostly other writers. A lot of it stems from believing prologues are skipped by readers, or they’re self-indulgent backstory only the author might care about. Others have said that it’s mostly agents who say they hate prologues more than readers. […]
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I watched the husband play through this. He finished it yesterday. The infected are just as creepy, and as usual, it’s the humans who are the real problem in the game. The story was good, but it didn’t evoke the same level of feels as the first. Maybe it was too scattered, maybe I’m not
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Pizza is special in our house because of my husband. It’s probably his favorite food. I must confess, I didn’t care about pizza, much less wanting to make it, well into our marriage. Scandalous! All my skeletons are out of the closet now. It took him finding the right dough recipe. Then he began making
The quick and dirty understanding of reader immersion is that the main character is the narrator, and the reader is getting the story in the character’s voice. We want to keep the distance close so it feels like we’re perched on the viewpoint character’s shoulder. Everything is subjective. The viewpoint character’s past colors how they
I recently took part in a discussion about struggling in certain aspects of limited point of view, and full reader immersion with the character. Anyone who writes in this style has the same struggles. Filtering, distance consistency, and what they read in writing books versus what they read in published books. First of all, let
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