bully me into reading

[leila ♡]

can someone bully me back into reading😭 idk why but my motivation has been super down lately and i need to get back to my books, i just can’t do it

[S.S.]

Yes some books can be boring. Ok, let's put it on the table - Uninteresting and tiresome and dull.

I will try to get you back with my book, Proximity Factor,

it is not boring, tiresome and dull. One of the uninteresting traits of books is their walls of text. Really poor formatting. The eyes and brain get bored.

You can get my book here for free this month:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Let me know if you need more motivation!
Scott


For you, and anyone else, including authors. These are the issues making your books so damn boring:

-Paragraphs. Shorter paragraphs. You can keep writing just break the para one and a while. Again giving us some white space and a break!

-Walls of text. Obviously walls of test is like fingernails on the chalkboard! Avoid.

-Very long chapters- Chapters 50, 60+ plus pages is like a hike up Mount Washington for us.
Shorten them, we need to feel an accomplishment to keep going. A shorter chapter is one way we can keep reading or take a break when needed and feel accomplished.

-Illustrations, Add them. We crave multiple sources of information a well placed illustration that adds to the story, chapter is well welcomed.

-Photo's, yes photo's too add them to help orient the reader.

-Color have your heard of it? use Color where possible. Gives us something to focus on from the same-old same-old.

-Fonts, use different fonts. Use your creativity like we know you can. Use some different font for different occasions etc.

-Narrator or character for review - is there a narrator or character that occasional tells us what happened what is maybe going to happen. Give us a hint please. We are not stupid and neither are you the writer. So let us know what you were thinking, because the only one who really knows is you and we are not you.

-Foreshadowing - Bro use the technique of foreshadowing. It helps us out so much. Think it ruins the story no, it may take extra thought, but it has huge payoff for the reader and I think the writer.

If you Think "and then this happened" helps us. It doesn't! foreshadow that, let me tell you it makes it so much more interesting for any reader, but especially for the reader.

Want a Master Class in foreshadowing - the movie "Back to the Future" is a master class in foreshadowing. Hardly anything happens in that story/movie that is not creativity foreshadowed.

Does that hurt the movie, not at all! It's One of the most popular movie ever made. The re-watch is not hurt at all! By the way the movie "back to the future" is based on a Philip K. Dick story.