[sparklite2]

There’s skill in boring the reader to death.

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Another skill is getting the reader to keep on reading even after he is bored. I guess it’s, “Well, I’ve put in so much effort slogging through this, surely the pony is just a paragraph away.”

Lucy yanked the football right on time...

[Larry Lucido]

The story needs better casting. I'd have gone with Susan and her girlfriend.

[Pelham]

‘Another skill is getting the reader to keep on reading even after he is bored. I guess it’s, “Well, I’ve put in so much effort slogging through this, surely the pony is just a paragraph away.”’

Good point.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Another skill is getting the reader to keep on reading even after he is bored.”

It was kind of like trying to turn away from a horrendous car wreck on the freeway. I just couldn’t turn away.

It reminds me a quite a few movies I’ve seen where, after enduring 90 excruciating minutes, I begin wondering “Will this thing EVER get started?” and, next thing I know, the credits are rolling.