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Q&A Is it possible that my short novel will be boring to my readers because it only has two characters and the location doesn't change?

I once read a book with a cast of thousands and an epic sweep that covered centuries of mythical action, bloody wars, magical happenings and whatnot. I read about four chapters and gave up because...

posted 13y ago by One Monkey‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T01:32:14Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/2549
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar One Monkey‭ · 2019-12-08T01:32:14Z (almost 5 years ago)
I once read a book with a cast of thousands and an epic sweep that covered centuries of mythical action, bloody wars, magical happenings and whatnot.

I read about four chapters and gave up because:

- The characters were lame.
- The dialogue was stilted.
- The plot was generic.
- The infodumps were deep, long and seemingly without relevance.

I read another story about a man dreaming he was climbing to the top of a mountain, where he promptly fell off. That's about all there was to it.

It gripped me from beginning to end.

Anything's possible. It's the story that matters.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2011-04-19T15:19:52Z (over 13 years ago)
Original score: 8