[stylist] background from Helene

helene ryles dreamavdb at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 21 23:55:40 UTC 2009


Judith: Thanks. I think I will need more fresh readers since I'm not
sure people will want me to keep producing the same few chapters again
and again as I'm worried about putting people off.
I want to produce chapter 10 tommorrow which is a totally fresh chapter.

What do others think?

Helene

On 22/09/2009, Judith Bron <jbron at optonline.net> wrote:
> Sounds good.
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>> I'm still working on the first few chapters to incorperate background
>> in a way that is readable. The first chapter should get people's
>> interest. Then the second chapter is written from Liza's point of view
>> which contains more back ground. The third is her first meeting with
>> Nadia, and the fourth is Nadia speaking for herself as a little girl.
>>
>> Helene
>>
>> On 21/09/2009, helene ryles <dreamavdb at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Judith,
>>> What do you mean exactly?
>>>
>>> Helene
>>>
>>> On 21/09/2009, Judith Bron <jbron at optonline.net> wrote:
>>>> Helene, Your background information about your characters and
>>>> relationships
>>>> as you told them to us is fine, but most readers aren't going to sit
>>>> down
>>>> to
>>>> a new book and read chapters about background information about them.
>>>> Your
>>>> book is a novel.  The characters, their roles and relationships should
>>>> be
>>>> obvious to your readers without a manual to guide them through the book.
>>>> Hope this is helpful, Judith
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