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Armadillo Reading
Jul. 18th, 2007 12:58 pmI read through my four ArmadilloCon readings last night, and all were pretty good. There was a humorous one (tongue-in-cheek), a serious one (a Dumas take-off), a tormented super-hero story (I think), and one that I didn't quite figure out--I'm going to have to re-read it. (I've only got about 20 pages of each)
All were well-written, and I didn't feel an overwhelming urge to correct grammar. I generally don't do much on my first read through, just read them to get the flow and the plot. It's very hard with a novel start, because novelists have to give you lots of setting up front. It's harder when you only have a few pages, becasue you generally don't have the same assurance that the plot will go on.
(In one of my favorite recent novels, it takes the protag 7 pages or so to answer the door--that happens with novel starts. That's in comparision to the novel where it takes the protag 253 pages to get out of his house and on the road....that one went on WAY too long.)
All were well-written, and I didn't feel an overwhelming urge to correct grammar. I generally don't do much on my first read through, just read them to get the flow and the plot. It's very hard with a novel start, because novelists have to give you lots of setting up front. It's harder when you only have a few pages, becasue you generally don't have the same assurance that the plot will go on.
(In one of my favorite recent novels, it takes the protag 7 pages or so to answer the door--that happens with novel starts. That's in comparision to the novel where it takes the protag 253 pages to get out of his house and on the road....that one went on WAY too long.)
