In real life, things get boring. Sometimes even extremely dramatic moments in life (weddings, funerals, deathbeds) are punctuated by stretches of utter tedium. It happens.
But it’s pretty challenging to make boredom work in a novel. And the reason why reveals quite a bit about how readers invest in stories and how good storytellers must weave the right elements together to keep them engaged.
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