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BWFoster78
Myth Weaver
Ease-of-reading would seem to be a very important consideration within the rest of your strategy, so creating few stumbles in this area would be important.
Agreed! Easy to read seems to be a very important quality to achieve in order to sell books.
I think of my stuff as easy to read, but truthfully, I have no idea if it is or not. If anyone who has read my stuff has thoughts on this, I'd love to hear it.
There are other potential pitfalls to keep an eye on: Chekhov's gun, dangling plot threads, inconsistency (of many types), and so forth.
It's hard for me to ascertain which of these are important to readers and which are important to writers. Recent data mining to find reviewers led me to read a lot of reviews. I saw a lot of complaining about stuff accompanied by, "But I can't wait for the next one."
Basically, I'm not sure how much that stuff impacts a reader's emotional experience. If you can engage the reader throughout the book and give him what he's looking for from an emotional standpoint, he'll forgive a whole heckava lot of other issues.
So are those pitfall really important? I don't know.