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Old 05-23-2017, 11:38 PM   #11
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I am thankful, then, that I don't know very much about those technical things. If I did, I'm sure it would ruin reading for me. Everything might start to look trite and predictable.
I have worried about that too. I recognised that the more I wrote, and the more I read and thought about the process of writing, the more I was aware of what I read - the many "tricks" and themes and so on that occur throughout most stories. But what I have also discovered is that in good books I just don't notice until later, when I stop to think it over. It's only in books that I am not enjoying that I notice these things while I am reading (hence my previous post).

The downside of this is that I find I can analyse what makes a book a "bad" (or not so good) - in my eyes, at least - but I have yet to work out what makes a book good. And failing that, how do I know if I am achieving good?
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