Does a little itch get into your brain when you think there’s a mistake in a book?
Do you have to scratch it before you can go on?
I do.
When John thinks about phoning Barbara, dials her number (did ‘dials’ cause an itch?) and starts to speak and at the end of the conversation Barbara thinks she is glad he phoned, there is a change of point of view. That will give me the itch.
And when the detective finds evidence by a coincidence and then finds out that the evidence was planted so that he’d find it. That gives me an itch. How did the criminal know the coincidence was going to occur? It happened to Rebus in the book I’ve just read.
When I get the itch, I start to worry about the other problems I might have with the book. That’s not good for me or the author.
Keir
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Yes,strange how one can often experience the most bizzare coincidenses throughout ones life, yet put them in a work of fiction and immediately it loses credibility.
Sometimes the coincidence is what causes the story. if the coincidence didn’t happen then the story wouldn’t be there.
However, you’re right,rely on too much coincidence and the credibility is lost.
Keir