In this short clip from the JamesPatterson.com site Patterson talks about his style of writing about his characters. He says his style is colloquial storytelling in which there is not an excess of information shared about the characters. Some authors give a lot of background information, but Patterson does not. This works especially when you can spread out background information over a series of novels.
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
James Patterson on Exposition and Character
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