A Question
Reader(s), if a book is so dull and full of stereotypes and cliched dialogue that I feel like my own meager writing abilities are being drained away every time I pick it up, should I go on reading it? Skim really fast to the end? I'm trying to finish as many of the books I start as I can, but this one is a weirdly boring challenge.
I don't hate it enough to find it compelling and it isn't the fun kind of bad, but it's also not so boring that I can't focus on the words. It's just a calm sea of cliches that sometimes gets whipped up into a cringestorm.
Not naming names because being an author is hard. But what do you advise?
I don't hate it enough to find it compelling and it isn't the fun kind of bad, but it's also not so boring that I can't focus on the words. It's just a calm sea of cliches that sometimes gets whipped up into a cringestorm.
Not naming names because being an author is hard. But what do you advise?