Writing dilemma: The writer who doesn’t read
One of the reasons I want to be a writer is because there’s no books I like reading. I browsed the bookshop the other day and the jacket reviews turned me off everything a picked up. I’m not interested in any that use words in their description such as: tragedy; poignant; thriller; black; depressing; violent and so on. They’re all stereotypical scribblings that pull cliched strings.
Problem is… that seems to cover every serious novel ever written. I like a good story but why do writers think you can’t have a good story without those elements? I’m okay with intrigue and curiosity - you’ve got to give the reader something to wonder about, to keep them reading. Action is critical too to a novel but does it have to be so stereotyped?
I want to read stuff that is real but not depressing or heart wrenching or stressful.
Could not a good writer make any story interesting?
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