Five Old Writer’s Tricks that Never Fail to keep Readers Reading

The greatest criticism you can say about a story is that it’s boring.

But have you ever wondering why that’s such a criticism? Why is it that when we encounter a story we don’t like our reaction is to call it boring? Why not just say “not to my taste” or “poorly put together” or “badly written”?

But no, the universal default criticism of a story is almost always that it is dull.

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The answer to this, of course, is pretty simple – stories are about ...