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Originally Posted by pwalker8
2) the short attention span narrative. The author jumps between a lot of different characters point of view. Imagine the Wheel of Time series compressed down into one volume. It's possible to do, but it's very hard to keep the reader's interest. There is a reason that most authors either use a primary protagonist or only have a couple. I think that a lot of authors do this because they think they can't have action happening off screen or were told in some writer workshop not to do so, but they have so many ideas for scenes they want to use.
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Would you say GRR Martin's
Ice and Fire series falls into this category, or are you thinking of faster switching than that? (Martin does this with one character's POV for each chapter - I'd say it's pretty well done, but then as I already stated in another thread, I'm pretty much a fan)
As for grammar/spelling... even as a non-native English speaker, sometimes it's pretty annoying. But then it's the kind of problem that I notice much more on the Web (forums and so on) than in properly published books - at least when the editors do their job. (Not surprisingly, spelling and grammar are pretty awful in the scientific literature - where there are many non-native writers,
and the publishers let us do their editing job for free)