Re: Time and place in the breakout novel

In article <ci5t125tlpl9hq5vnauo2ak6a5rgcvoko7@xxxxxxx>,
R. L. <see-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:28:05 -0800, David Friedman
<ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
/snip/
Helen wrote:

I currently have no clue about what is obvious and what isn't in the
WIR because I've lived with it so long.
/snip/
That is one of the things that worries me reading the published version
of my novel. There are a fair number of things which a reader can put
together from what is there but probably won't, at least the first time
through, since the information is scattered. In theory, they are things
you don't have to put together to follow the plot, and their presence
adds depth--the feeling of a real world behind the page.

But whether that works in practice I don't know. My worry is that,
because I have lived with the story for so long, I may be seriously
underestimating how much the reader will miss.


Which reader, on which reading? I mean, different readers will read
different parts with different attention at different times. This sounds
like the kind of thing that will make re-reading worthwhile

That is part of what it is supposed to do. But if the reader gives up
part way through the first reading, the rereading doesn't happen.

--
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/ http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
Author of _Harald_, a fantasy without magic.
Published by Baen, in bookstores in April 2006.
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