What do you think makes a section of writing boring?
The most honest answer I can give is “if it’s boring”…which is indeed a circular answer, but there are so many ways a stretch of prose can engage me—as a piece of narrative, a brain-teaser in its own right, and/or when put in a broader context besides—that I can’t really think of anything that would be ‘boring’ no matter what.
That being said, I just can’t sympathize with the sentiment of “slogging through all the other stuff to get to the scene you actually want to write”—if I’m legitimately uninterested in writing something, I figure my target audience wouldn’t get much mileage out of it either; to that end, I want every sentence of my work to have something to offer past being ‘proper setup’ (for whatever that’s even worth).
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Date: 2025-03-21 06:46 pm (UTC)The most honest answer I can give is “if it’s boring”…which is indeed a circular answer, but there are so many ways a stretch of prose can engage me—as a piece of narrative, a brain-teaser in its own right, and/or when put in a broader context besides—that I can’t really think of anything that would be ‘boring’ no matter what.
That being said, I just can’t sympathize with the sentiment of “slogging through all the other stuff to get to the scene you actually want to write”—if I’m legitimately uninterested in writing something, I figure my target audience wouldn’t get much mileage out of it either; to that end, I want every sentence of my work to have something to offer past being ‘proper setup’ (for whatever that’s even worth).