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Originally Posted by CRussel
Next up is causing me some grief. I've started and abandoned 4 or 5 books in the last 24 hours, in addition to officially and finally abandoning any attempt to finish Red Mars. This was a 600 page book that should have been 350 pages, and it just wasn't good enough to put up with that.
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Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny
Ah, I do this when I'm thrashing around trying to get into my next read -- though most of the abandoning is just temporary. It's a sense of "not now" rather than "never".
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Yup. Most of these are simply "not now". I'm in a bit of a rut, nothing is really crying out to me to read, and I'm stressed enough with work, my server crash, and the agreement to write two books this summer, that my reading time is precious and limited. Most of the reading I'll be able to do will be the kind where you're reading in 10-20 minute increments. Not the choice for any book that requires "getting in to". I'll need good books with either well known and loved characters, or a very fast pace. Or both. No time for long buildups or authors who can't write tight. (As a point of pride, I've
never had an editor tell me to tighten-up because I was going over the page count. If you stick to writing cleanly and accurately, you don't need to blather and run on. As true in fiction as in technical writing.)