Fun Reading/Writing Update

Fun Reading/Writing Update

 

 

 

As I am reading "The River," and many other books written by many different authors, I am finding that all good authors don't like try and rush through their story. They take time to describe every detail they can find to describe whenever they can. I can see that they start off with a good lead that grabs the reader's attention and then they go ahead and slowly flow along with the plot. And as every action occurs in the book, they don't rush to get to the next part; they try to describe every action and they also try to show us how experienced they are in writing based on figurative language, diction, syntax, theme, and many other aspects of writing contribute as well.

 

It really isn't that easy to write a good novel; one that engrosses the reader and he/she actually finds it ionteresting so that they are encouraged to read on.

 

Like this happened to me and my cousin sister. We decided to write a novel of our own and so we got started. My cousin sister's dad had published three books on his own and he wanted to write a fourth book, so my sister and I decided that we should give him a break, and so we started writing one on our own. And when we got to work, we had no idea where to start. But after we saw a movie, we came up with a plot similar to that of the movie, and so we got started. We borrowed the first half of the movie's ideas into our book, and then we made up the second half of the book and ending. The first book has already been done, but now, we are on the second book, and we promise, it will be better than the first one.

 

But when we looked over the first book and compared it to a real published book in English, we found that the major difference we had was that we just typed in huge big paragraphs and we never indented lines whenever a character spoke. Also, we seemed to be rushing through the plot within the pages, so that's where we hit a wall. The thing was that we never actually took time to stop at moments within the book and describe every single detail that was taking place at that time. A good book's writing needs to describe details very thoroughly all the time in order for the writing to be considered juicy. So after me and my cousin sister saw the errors we had made, we decided to edit the first book from start to finish and try to make our book's writing more juicy.