The Elements of a Page-Turner - podcast

Thanks Sir, This is as much a great honor as it is informative. But the real benefit for me is to have the opportunity to listen to you talk and teach literary expertise to a girl who was born thousands of miles away in Sub-Saharan Africa like me...now that is really priceless.

All I had to see is Stan Lee and I had to watch it

I especially enjoyed your comments about creating complex situations, surprising developments, and big problems for your characters. As a new author, this part is one of the most intriguing aspects in writing my new children’s book series called "The Adventures of Johnny Saturday". Johnny's surprising developments often surprises me, while also motivating me to seek more complex and surprising situations. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lee!

The lecture was very interesting, some musicians get melodies from the inner but there are rules in constructing melodies which can be found in music theory books. I sit and listen (I am a musician ) and the melodies just come. When I was a kid imagination played an important part of creativity.

The question I have as a new writer is: Do different genres require different qualities that induce page turning? I think yes, but I wonder if I have attained any of that in my book Kramer Makes David Smile. A cat affects a little boy so he smiles. Does it have the same suspense that Spider Man has, or does the different genre require other stuff? Is it a different kind of suspense. If so, then there is a different kind of page turning.