five ways to kill audience satisfaction

Being a writer tends to taint your experiences of film, TV or novels, albeit in a way which can improve your own work. While absorbing fiction, I'll inevitably analyse why I'm enjoying, or especially not enjoying, a story. Finding faultscan be brilliantly instructive, in terms of avoiding the same mistakes - provided, of course, that it's not simply an issue of taste. You don't learn much from not enjoying a gangster film, for instance, if you don't particularly care for the genre.

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