Anyways, my questions for y'all are; what makes a scene that does this to you? How do you write scenes like this?Bethany Faith

I have a bad habit of skimming as scenes become more exciting, just to find out what happens. Action scenes are often very confusing to me as I don't have the patience to read slower and find out what happens. Yeah... bit stupid that way.

So are you talking about a riveting scene, Bethy, or specifically a scene that makes you read faster? Because riveting reading happens to me, but I've never gotten to the point where my eyes are trying to skip ahead...

I think fast paced wording can help, but honestly, I'm not sure what makes the scene so gripping. Killing people off isn't necessarily a good thing though. I think Namor is correct that it can be effective, but needless death in a book (like, I don't know what to do with this character anymore, so I'm going to kill him) turns me off of a book. I mean, I'll still read, but the spell has been broken. He needs to die for a purpose.

@Namor: I loved that scene - now you need to write a book about it and come up with a great name for the lava monsters

Derail in progress.

Continue on, everyone.

I love it when this happens. My Mother once read this book outloud to us and it got so exciting we wouldn't let her stop, so it got to like 2am and she was still reading it to us! Poor Mother! But it was an amazing book!