READY TO KICK IT UP A NOTCH TV
The heroine is not only dumped by her cheating husband, an anchor on the local news channel, she then has the torment of watching him and his now-pregnant girlfriend/co-anchor on TV every day. If you want to understand the perennial popularity of a Danielle Steel, check out Palomino. When I first started out as a writer I made it a practice to keep up with what was selling by reading at least one book by each of the authors whose titles frequently appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. The only rule is that it has to make sense in the context of the story so it doesn’t seem out of character. Your plot doesn’t have to be in the realm of the probable, just believable enough to keep readers from rolling their eyes in disbelief. So how do you accomplish this when you’re writing a novel? How do you take a low-octane plot and kick it up at notch?ĭon’t be afraid to be over the top. Whether it’s a novel or filmed entertainment, fantasy or reality-based, we all want the same thing when reading a book: to be swept away. But who cares? We get enough real life in our own lives, and it’s usually pretty tame compared to a day in the life of Jack Bauer. (It contains some Jack Bauer-like heroics, is all I can say without being a spoiler.) Is it the kind of stuff that would ever happen in real life? Doubtful. It was off and running when I still had one foot on the ground climbing into the passenger seat. He knows that to create a novel that’s addictive you have to “kick it up a notch,” in the words of chef Emeril Lagasse. It’s the same reason authors like Stephen King have legions of fans. (Seriously, a middle-aged guy singlehandedly taking out a dozen armed terrorists?) Why? Because the action moves at such a rapid clip, we don’t pause to reflect on the gaping plot holes until the credits are rolling. Is any of it remotely believable? Hell no. When he’s not hunting terrorists he’s saving a major city from total annihilation. If you’ve watched the hit TV show “24”, you know that every day in the life of hero Jack Bauer is a really, really bad day. Eileen Goudge is here today to share some of them with us… Courtesy: Sam Beckwith at CC There are tips and tricks to successfully writing a can’t-put-it-down book.
READY TO KICK IT UP A NOTCH MOVIE
But that’s harder said than done, as is proven by the number of times I leave a movie complaining that it was one long bull crap moment. We all want to write an engaging, page-turning story.
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