Thanks. I’ll try to read a thriller. That might be going in the other extreme, but I think you might be right. Figuring out the boundaries is a good way to find the middle.
Yes, I know KM Weiland. She gives really good writing advice. I’ve been reading her for a few years now.

Lol! So true! ?

It does make sense I write in a similar zone – I also don’t naturally analyse things in books I read, although because I primarily read on a kindle /iPad I have started to train myself to. I highlight sentences or paragraphs I like as I go with seemingly no real purpose behind my choices but when I go back to them it’s usually because it’s something I don’t do well or a technique I like.

As for examples, hmmmmmm. What about trying a thriller? They are usually fast paced. Or a YA novel – they too are fast paced. I guess some of the things I’ve read recently about chapter endings is to leave them open – try not answer a question at the end of a chapter and if u have a cliff hanger or open ended chapter then don’t answer that particular question in the very next chapter answer it a few chapters later because it keeps the reader turning the page. I’ll try and find the article I read that in I have a feeling it was KM Weiland – do you know her?

yeh it’s odd I really couldn’t be doing with that flowery language back then either. But I definitely do feel different now.

This is the problem with being a writer – out goddamn reading list is as long as Everest is high.

By transitions, I mean from one scene to the next, without confusing the reader, providing too many necessary details, etc. For both, I am just reading stuff and paying attention to those things in whatever I read. Do you have any recommendations for me?

I read a lot of literary fiction and there are some stories where there is barely any tension. I don’t think I could get away with that as a first timer.

I admit that I am bad at analyzing things I read for elements I need for my own writing. I read stuff and I trust my subconscious notes it all down and then I trust it’ll know what to do when I sit down to write. I write a lot by going on intuition. I know I write well when I enter this space/zone when I’m writing.

I hope all that makes sense because I am too tired to even reread it. Hope you’re having a good week.

Ooh interesting. What do you mean by transitions?

What kind of stuff are you reading for the tensions work?

I consider myself fairly optimistic too. We have discussed meliorism on my blog from time to time. However I’m not too sure what is beyond our turn of strutting on the stage. 🙂

Every time I edit a new draft, one note I always make is to add more description and details.