What do you feel are the most important aspacts of writing a novel? Some people concentrate on plot, others on dialouge, character developement, suspense, sub-plots. All are very important parts of novel writting, but what do you feel is most important, why, and when you read a novel, what keeps you from putting it down because on more word of this crap and thou shalt explode? Do you feel that it varies from genre to genre? I'm bored and interested in the topic, so I thought I'd throw it out there.
I think Character developement is the most important thing. If you are too obssesed with the plot to make you're characters three dimensional I will be unable to handle the novel. Plain and simple. Some novels tend to be obssesed with setting.
"The sky was blue and the sea was blue and I love birds because they sing and in the land of Fartherare there are lots of birds, some with purple feathers others with green......"
Three words....someone shoot me.
Numero dos, an original plot. If I read the back of a book and it sounds like the backs of the last fity back books I have read which sounds like the backs of fifteen books I already read, I will rarely pick it up. It's a real shame too, because I probably put down books that have original twists to a Cliche idea, but unable to tell the difference an unwilling to spend several hours of my life figuring out if it's worth it or not isn't something I am willing to do.
Numero tres, awesome evil character!
I think Character developement is the most important thing. If you are too obssesed with the plot to make you're characters three dimensional I will be unable to handle the novel. Plain and simple. Some novels tend to be obssesed with setting.
"The sky was blue and the sea was blue and I love birds because they sing and in the land of Fartherare there are lots of birds, some with purple feathers others with green......"
Three words....someone shoot me.
Numero dos, an original plot. If I read the back of a book and it sounds like the backs of the last fity back books I have read which sounds like the backs of fifteen books I already read, I will rarely pick it up. It's a real shame too, because I probably put down books that have original twists to a Cliche idea, but unable to tell the difference an unwilling to spend several hours of my life figuring out if it's worth it or not isn't something I am willing to do.
Numero tres, awesome evil character!
