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Originally Posted by caleb72
Good Lord - so she does! And it looks like she doesn't indent. Yuck!
If I ever get around to reading this, I might see if I can make it a bit more pleasing to the eye.
I've been following your quest with some interest. After all of that, I hope this book isn't 1000 pages of drek.  |
Well, the Prologue (all that I've currently read) is all 'talky' and seems rather contrived. I'm from the South and raised in the South, so I know a little bit of what I'm talking about.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with having a preponderance of dialogue, but it can be rather tiresome in the hands of someone learning his or her craft, in addition to someone learning how to tell a good story.
(For an example of unmediated dialogue, look at 'JR' by William Gaddis. He's a literary writer - and certainly not to everyone's taste.)
About this curent book, some paragraphs are indented and other paragraphs are not. If this was my book and I saw it like this on Amazon (or anywhere else for that matter), I would immediately pull it and attempt to correct these formatting issues before making it available. In fact, I would NEVER make this available in this condition, until the problems were solved.
Running it through calibre may or may not correct these issues.
Anyway, I'll read through the entire sample to see if the writing is engaging for me.
As a corollary to this discussion, those readers who dismiss this novel mainly do so in relation to use of the 'n' and 'f' word. (To be fair, the novel has some negative comments on length and also typo issues.)
I may start a separate thread on this, but I find it disconcerting that some readers of Indie writers feel a 'warning' should be posted about language use. We don't see this in literary novels. About this novel in particular, using the 'f' or 'n' word is consistent (so far in what I've read, anyway) with the characters and with their socio-economic background. Too, the subject matter itself would seem to lend credence to the use of these words. But, as I said, this may be an issue of discussion in a separate thread.
Don