 How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books?
ggchappell: This is an interesting question, but I am not sure about some of the assumptions behind it.Consider how I do things: the net has indeed made me impatient, in many contexts. When I read an HN post, I usually give it at most a paragraph or so to convince me it's worth finishing. If I'm not convinced by then, I usually skip the rest. If I am convinced, I still often just skim the rest.However, I still read novels. I read them the old-fashioned way, cover-to-cover, in order. But I do so in a very different context from my web browsing. So, the way to write a novel for me is much the same way that a novel was written 50 or 100 years ago.But that's just me. Other people might be different; I wouldn't know. However, in that case, I must ask another question: if someone isn't going to read a novel, then why would you want to write one for them?