One of the things people do not think about when they first set out out to write is that reading is hard work. The application of mental effort takes discipline to sustain. Right now, reading this, your brain is working out whether I am right or not, if my point is valid. Right you may be bored, this could be because what I am writing does not interest you at all (the editor perhaps has misjudged the tastes of is readership) or it could be that you just are not thinking about it.

There is a reason that some authors sell and others collect only rejection slips. Dean Koontz to some of us is a hack with no ability to entertain, to absorb with his words, to others, he is a literary genius. Dean Koontz knows how to write easy words. James Patterson, Stephen King, Jeffrey Deaver, and without a doubt,
John Grisham, all have this ability (talent?) to get you to read without it feeling like work, to make words on a page feel more like television.

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