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Originally Posted by rainbase
Nice post, Chock.
I'm not sure I agree with the idea the "If you go totally authentic, then you would risk it being boring". The author doesn't have to dwell on the more mundane non-scoring flights and washed out crappy-weather days. He controls the pacing and can simply write "Four days later..." to bring the reader to the next "good bit". Yeates of course doesn't do much of that; he drags the reader right along with the day to day grind, through the routine and through the action. In Yeate's case, the effect is almost hypnotic.
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Oh absolutely, I agree that it can be done. One look at Conrad's The Heart of Darkness proves that: The entire book is a few guys sitting on the deck of a boat whilst someone tells them a story.
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