Creativity Hacker

…then I went to the other thing. = Galloping “I” disease.[/dropshadowbox] Writing in the first person is a great way to get us inside the protagonist’s head, but it comes with a hidden trap: the above mentioned “I” disease. In third person, the writer has many ways they can refer to the…

…border_color=”#A35154″]WTF #1: Galloping I disease[/dropshadowbox] Analysis: The book opens on a tsunami of echoing “I” sentences, but it was the recurring “I“s rather than the sentence or paragraph echoes that really distracted me. As early as the half-way point of page one, I‘d lost…

…border_color=”#A35154″]WTF #2: Galloping “I” disease[/dropshadowbox] Analysis: The pattern of “I” sentences noticed at the start continues, and if anything, gathers mass. I love the premise that is rapidly unfolding here, of a guy who has teleported into a hospital bathroom in order to get…

…border_color=”#A35154″]WTF #3: Galloping “I” disease[/dropshadowbox] Analysis: I tried to ignore it, hoping that the frantic dashing around (and talking about being frantic) was just making me over-sensitive, but nope. There’s just way too much “I” talk and it keeps pulling me out of the…

…border_color=”#A35154″]WTF #1: Galloping “I” disease[/dropshadowbox] Analysis: The epilogue (which may just be a prologue) is littered with “I“-sentences, and concludes with four “I“-headed paragraphs in a row. Since very little appears to be happening in the story, there wasn’t much going…