When I began Abducted by Circumstance, I will admit that I completely dreaded reading it. I kept getting confused about who was talking and who the new characters were to the main character. Once I became accustom to reading the book, I began to create a kind of groove to reading it. I found myself being complete engrossed in the story. I started to understand the misunderstood feelings of the married couple and everyone around them.
Until we discussed the book in class, I never really noticed how David Maddon used a lot of "showing" instead of "telling" to reveal the feelings of the confused and unhappy heroine. After the class talked about the novel I began reading the story differently. I craved to find more of the "showing" technique. That is a skill I want to take and use in my own writing.
Fantastic, Brittany. You have to read selfishly. You can't sit there and say, "Okay, book: entertain me. Let me forget about my life for a little bit." That's the way we read often enough: as escape. That's fine. Writer's, however, are like the ambitious AAA baseball players in the stands at the game. They aren't passively watching the game. They are learning. They are stealing. They are absorbing.
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