Reading Graphic Novels vs. Reading Regular Novels
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Re: Reading Graphic Novels vs. Reading Regular Novels
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As a novelist, as I said before, I work hard to set up visualizations of the chapters in my books, focusing on trying to carefully make the descriptions as visual as possible, so as to carry the reader into the scene. My task is a bit easier than a fantasy writer, because my stories are modern private detective novels, so I don't have to, for example, tell the readers how cars or TVs or other things work, whereas a fantasy writer has to paint an image of maybe a castle or wizard's lair which has zero foundation till the author sets it up. I just take a real scene and put my characters into it, which works fine. Here's a brief excerpt from my new novel, where my private eye and his pal David Meierhoff are having a beer. Hopefully this gives the reader a good description:
Homicide Detective David Meierhoff and I were hanging out and drinking beer, sitting at a picnic table on the front patio of the West Alabama Icehouse. I had my regular Budweiser longneck but David was experimenting with one of those trendy new brews that came in a slender faux-metallic bottle and featured pushy TV commercials with lots of CGI and boldly energetic young people parasailing or mountain climbing, all in slow motion. I speculated silently whether both beers were filled from the same vat, his bottle simply costing a half buck more.
It was a normal spring afternoon in Houston, about ninety-two degrees. But we had a good breeze, humidity was thankfully low and our beers were frosty cold. The Icehouse owner had also recently installed a big aluminum sunshade over the picnic table area, so we weren’t glared upon directly by Our Mister Sun. An engaging setup on a non-busy afternoon, the Houston version of a German Biergarten.
Meierhoff and I were concentrating intently on being unproductive, idly watching traffic rumble along the street in front of the tavern and less idly observing the newest barmaid, Annie. She had curly blonde hair, eager blue eyes, a voluptuous figure and looked about sixteen, although I knew she already had a BA and was working toward her master’s in marketing.
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Not saying they don't have foreshadowing, just saying that they have the ability to really knock it out of the park.
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I would also like to say that I find that the Japanese cater for both children and adult readers interested in graphic novels. They are called manga and popular ones are made into anime (cartoons). Some are even based from Light Novels that can also be found online. For example, The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor. I was happy to see that somebody mentioned Death Note (very popular thriller manga).
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