It's easy to write a book. To write a good one, well that another story altogether!
To write something that some else enjoys to read takes a lot of effort. You can't just write something that you find funny, and expect other people to laugh at it.
You can't write something and with-hold information that is nessecary to keep the reader interested.
The challenge also lies with tying everything in at the end of the book. To make books interesting, you have to put a few small incidents throughout the book that are only explained near the ending. This gives the reader greater satisfation at the end of the book, and makes them more inclined to finish the book in the first place.
I've picked up books many times and read only a few pages before putting them down again... but then again I'm very hard to please...
I usually end up putting them down because they take so long to get into. I'm a fussy reader, but I'm a sloppy writer. Something tells me that if I published my book tomorrow, they'd all do what I do all the time: Read two pages then close the book in dissappointment.

Anyone got anything to say about anything I've mentioned or any other topic to do with the relationship between the writer and the reader?

Thanks for all the amazing writing tips Mr. the man

You do realise that sammy will be bombarding this page with her hundreds of different stories

That's great! The more the better!

yes very interesting

hmmm i could bombard you with stuff about my stories. but mostly i'm working in fanfiction atm... and is that really something you want? actually... should i make a topic about that? fanfiction as a writing scene in the modern world...

in terms of what you've said, sean, yeah i think the relation between author and reader is very important. i find that you can tell instantly if an author has had his friend (yes singular in the writing world lol) and family around him, because the story will read better, because he or she has had more people around them reading each step of the way and giving criticism as its needed. you can really tell the people who havent had that, because the books havent been read over before publishers get their mitts on them

Yes! Please post some stories! I'll make a section for fan-fiction.

ooooh thanks!!! i'll also start linking people here instead of my fanfiction page :p

nice one sammy, yay lets get the site to some people that dont know where dunmanway is!

We definitely need new members... but most people get really annoyed when I post on their sites...

hmmmm well its http://fantasylife.forumotion.net is the base link isnt it? wana put a link in my journal but it never works... and hey i'm aloud to advertise in two chatrooms which reaches the masses, i'm an admin :p

cool! Yup, that the right link alright!

yeah its in my journal but my subbys gunna go any day so it'll be down for a week... then it'll be back

Another tip:

Use something to get the reader hooked near the start of your story, because I think we can all agree that it can be extremely hard to get into a new book, especially if it's written by an amatuer.