My Writing Style

I have posted a similar blog on launamcneilly.com but will repeat it here for those that follow this site. I talked about the difference between literary fiction and genre fiction. It is widely debated about what those differences are. From what I can decifer I think I must write in genre fiction. Though I'm not really sure. Anyway, my style of writing is for the general masses. I don't use the big fancy words that leave you puzzled as to what the author is saying unless you reach for the dictionary to look it up. I use every day language that most of us speak. I want my readers to get into the story without the dead stop at trying to figure out what the word means, forget, how to pronounce it. Those words, and there are many that I do not know, leave me stopped dead in my tracts when reading. Not only do I get distracted from my story but I'll fixate on that word until I can pronounce it. Nothing worse in my opinion. Certainly not good for the flow of the story. I want the only reasons a person puts my book down is because they have finished it or have to do something else. A successful book to me is one that keeps the reader reading and when they can't be reading they are thinking about the story. Whether it be literary or genre fiction doesn't matter to me if someone calls me and says, "I can't believe the twist! I never saw it coming! or "I can't put the book down, I have to keep reading to see what happens next!"  That my friends is success to me.