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Coaxing in Reluctant Readers
I’m a flash fiction writer and one of my hopes for the form is that it may prove to be an excellent way to coax in the reluctant reader.
For one thing, with flash fiction stories coming in at a maximum of 1000 words (and often considerably less than that), I’m not asking a reader to commit to too much in one go!
I’ve loved stories and books all of my life (thanks to my lovely much missed mum encouraging and developing that love) but not everyone “gets” stories and books.
So how do you reach them and persuade them books can be “their bag” too?
No easy answer to that but I hope films might draw people in to read the books the movies are based on. I also hope audio can be a way in. You can listen to a great story as well as read one.
And as I say I hope flash fiction, which reads well on screens, would also help here.
I do know that the love of reading should be encouraged. I think it is a question of convincing people there really are books out there which would suit them.
For one thing, with flash fiction stories coming in at a maximum of 1000 words (and often considerably less than that), I’m not asking a reader to commit to too much in one go!
I’ve loved stories and books all of my life (thanks to my lovely much missed mum encouraging and developing that love) but not everyone “gets” stories and books.
So how do you reach them and persuade them books can be “their bag” too?
No easy answer to that but I hope films might draw people in to read the books the movies are based on. I also hope audio can be a way in. You can listen to a great story as well as read one.
And as I say I hope flash fiction, which reads well on screens, would also help here.
I do know that the love of reading should be encouraged. I think it is a question of convincing people there really are books out there which would suit them.
