To Quote or Not to Quote...

[rosepddle]

A while back I was speaking with a friend who writes, but not really with professional aspirations (which is still good. I don’t care what your goals are for writing if you love it!). She asked if I planned to add quotes to my book. At first I wasn’t sure what she meant. I thought she meant like a foreword or like some song lyrics at the beginning

Comments

[triomakesmehot]

For what it's worth, I don't ever bother reading the quotes at the starts of chapters either, for basically the same reasons. I tend to skip over poetry and song lyrics added to fanfics as well. I may be missing something profound, but I just find it distracting.

[rosepddle]

I know, I have to say I'd rather get right to the story.

[zellie_bean]

Interesting question and reminds me of the question of adding music to play on cue when reading something on kindle. While people have different tastes, I think for the most part the theme music on Scrubs is very powerful and sometimes I do hear a scene with music behind it

[rosepddle]

Thst sounds interesting. I might have to give that book a looksee. I don't know if I'd want music to play on que. Sometimes music distracts me if it's programed with the story. If it's in the background like on the radio, then I can leave it in the background. I know sometimes when I go to webpagres or LJ pages and they have music linked, I always find myself hunting down the pause buttion or whatever will shut it up before I can read the page. LOL.

[zellie_bean]

I HATE webpages with music! I usually have my own on or have multiple pages at once.

I'm not sure about books... it would work for an audio book I think because you are anticipating that it'll be audio. But for a regular book... I think it might be jarring because you're just reading along and suddenly music comes out!