[May 25, 1960] Getting there is half the problem (Judith Merril's The Tomorrow People)

[galacticjourney]

Every novel is a kind of contract with the reader, a promise that ideas, events, and characters will be presented in the beginning such that, by the end, they will have facilitated a satisfying story. A corollary to this is that a writer must ensure that all of a story's scenes are interesting to the reader. Lesser authors pound their keys trying to get "to the good parts," stringing together pearls of interest with thread of mediocre space-filler.

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