http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/a-writers-workshop/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/a-writers-workshop/comment-page-1/#comment-1075 john baker Wed, 24 May 2006 19:42:37 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=130#comment-1075 I learnt it as a reader first, having a fatal temptation at one time to pick up books by authors who wanted to describe every scrap of clothing their characters' wore; the taste, smell and texture of every morsel of food; those excrutiating sex scenes where every sense organ in the body is set to ring and explode at the same instant. I learnt it as a reader first, having a fatal temptation at one time to pick up books by authors who wanted to describe every scrap of clothing their characters’ wore; the taste, smell and texture of every morsel of food; those excrutiating sex scenes where every sense organ in the body is set to ring and explode at the same instant.

]]> http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/a-writers-workshop/comment-page-1/#comment-1023 skint writer Tue, 23 May 2006 22:12:47 +0000 http://www.johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=130#comment-1023 It took me a long time to learn that it's better not too say too much, you've got to leave some work for the readers to do, otherwise they get bored. It took me a long time to learn that it’s better not too say too much, you’ve got to leave some work for the readers to do, otherwise they get bored.

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