As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
Life is anything but predictable.
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
In real life, I am alarmingly boring.
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.
What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?
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