Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Helpful (or not so helpful) Hints: Casual?

When you've read as many books as I have, you start to notice things. Like the fact that the basic character circle is: Male Hero, Cute Girl, and Nerdy Guy.
This hint may finish an unspoken thought that many of you have considered. Here it goes:
Whenever an author is telling you about some thing casual, like the daily walk to school, or sitting in his room doing nothing, it is most definitely going to end up UnCasual. The character(s) will always discover something, or get kidnapped, or die, or something like that.
So next time you guys are reading about Harry Potter walking down the hall to his Potions class, be warned: Things are not always as they seem...

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