by Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted
J. R. Ewing heard a
noise outside his office door. He walked into the hallway and BOOM! Shot.
Twice. This was the season ender for the 1980 television show, Dallas. America
was taken back when they realized two things.
1) Was J. R. Ewing dead? 2) Who
shot him?
That closing scene
was every writers dream come true . . . having the viewer/reader hungry for
more.
Fiction is the most
read genre in the country. Not only do authors vie for a spot on the fiction
shelves of a bookstore, bigger yet, they vie for the reader’s attention. Thanks
to the world of technology and media bumping up a viewer’s expectations,
writers must step up the pace to draw the reader in.
