Comments on: Open Mic Day for Readers http://theamensisters.com/wordpress/2008/08/07/open-mic-day-for-readers/ Real love. Real faith. Real life. Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:32:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Angela http://theamensisters.com/wordpress/2008/08/07/open-mic-day-for-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-4397 Angela Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:41:01 +0000 http://theamensisters.com/wordpress/?p=368#comment-4397 Jennifer, i feel you on books that have a good premise that that don't follow-through. It's more difficult to write a good book than it seems. Okay, Rhonda, you have to take off your writer hat. Let it go, sis. You must. LOL! What I've learned is that readers are not us. Yes, there are some readers who move in our circles who notice things like point-of-view, but many don't. To be honest, all head-hopping doesn't bother me. Bad head-hopping does. Jennifer, i feel you on books that have a good premise that that don’t follow-through. It’s more difficult to write a good book than it seems.

Okay, Rhonda, you have to take off your writer hat. Let it go, sis. You must. LOL!

What I’ve learned is that readers are not us. Yes, there are some readers who move in our circles who notice things like point-of-view, but many don’t. To be honest, all head-hopping doesn’t bother me. Bad head-hopping does.

]]> By: Rhonda McKnight http://theamensisters.com/wordpress/2008/08/07/open-mic-day-for-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-4091 Rhonda McKnight Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:13:17 +0000 http://theamensisters.com/wordpress/?p=368#comment-4091 I hate books where the author head hops. Everyone seems to be doing it these days like it's okay and it's nice. I expect to see it once or twice in a novel where the author and editor may have missed it. No ones perfect, but to deliberately hop in and out of different characters heads in once scene is just lazy writing, not style. When I see this, I immediately put the book down. If I have to work not to head hop, so does everyone else. I hate books where the author head hops. Everyone seems to be doing it these days like it’s okay and it’s nice. I expect to see it once or twice in a novel where the author and editor may have missed it. No ones perfect, but to deliberately hop in and out of different characters heads in once scene is just lazy writing, not style. When I see this, I immediately put the book down. If I have to work not to head hop, so does everyone else.

]]> By: Jennifer C. http://theamensisters.com/wordpress/2008/08/07/open-mic-day-for-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-4077 Jennifer C. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:04:12 +0000 http://theamensisters.com/wordpress/?p=368#comment-4077 I'm a reviewer for APOOO and over the last couple of months I was getting books that made me want to cry because the idea was there for a good plot, but it fell very short of hitting the mark. However, I read The Legacies by Michelle Larks a couple of weeks back and it was awesome. Then yesterday I finished a contemporary romance by Viola M. Walker it was so good. I have several others to read in the month of August one of them being Up Pops The Devil. Can't wait to read it. I have heard nothing but good things. I’m a reviewer for APOOO and over the last couple of months I was getting books that made me want to cry because the idea was there for a good plot, but it fell very short of hitting the mark.

However, I read The Legacies by Michelle Larks a couple of weeks back and it was awesome. Then yesterday I finished a contemporary romance by Viola M. Walker it was so good.

I have several others to read in the month of August one of them being Up Pops The Devil. Can’t wait to read it. I have heard nothing but good things.

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