Yvonne Mason: The reading public in general is tired of the same old thing. It's the same thing with things on the television. It's the same regurgitated plot, the same regurgitated ending, it's the same thing over and over because writers in general have lost the ability to think. in Hollywood for these shows and these movies, ⁓ don't think. ⁓ don't brainstorm. They don't sit down and go, well, if A plus B equals C, how do we make D ⁓ it? ⁓ plus B equals C, so we're just gonna take D out of the equation and just keep regurgitating the same thing over and over again. ⁓ is wrong on every creative level that I know of. ⁓ you lose so many potential readers because you don't keep them engaged. I've stopped reading so many books on a traditional level because of that. I pick it up, I read the the back of it, I say, ⁓ yeah, I know how this is gonna end. Yet last night I was watching a show And Jack and I used to do this all the time. I was watching a show and I knew that this one character was gonna get killed off. Because that's how the storyline was going. There was no other way for it to end. He was gonna have to get killed off. It was way too predictable. I don't want a book that's predictable.
Linda Wright: Yeah.
Mary Brotherton: No.
Linda Wright: No, I agree. I don't like that either. I wanna be like I wanna go, you know, at some point.
Yvonne Mason: Exactly. The last page. The last book that shocked me was in When did it come out? It was the Exorcist.
Mary Brotherton: ⁓ that was in the seventies, I think?
Linda Wright: Wow. That's been a long time, Yvonne.
Yvonne Mason: I think so. That's the last book that shocked me. Because when I read the last sentence, I went, well that didn't end well. Came out of nowhere. Now that's in the seventies. My daughter was born in the seventies. She's fifty years old, so y'all do the math. We as indie authors don't want our readers to become jaded. We don't want to become predictable. And that's why Linda writes the way she writes, while Mary writes the way she writes, while I write the way I write when I get to write, because being predictable is boring.
Linda Wright: It is it's true, but
Yvonne Mason: And and Linda would it be fair to say that writing predictable is boring?
Linda Wright: Yes. It is. So ⁓ okay, I'm gonna get out a couple more of my books here. I brought props to wear so you'd know. Okay, so this is this is you wet this and put it in the freezer and it gets cold. Okay, so this is a story about hello Janie, about two friends that are going through menopause.
Mary Brotherton: Good. We like props.
Yvonne Mason: Yeah.
Linda Wright: Okay, so that's ⁓ totally unpredictable. So the one of ⁓ wears like these she wears a fur coat, but she w but she has these cooling scarves underneath her fur coat and she laughs at her friend who's always sticking her head in the freezer, you know, and sneaking some ice cream while she's in there, 'cause she's sweating. Everybody's sweating. So I wouldn't call that very predictable. And I I will I can tell you a story about this book too. So the premise, it starts there. Jill and her husband are having a fight over the size of the Thanksgiving turkey. He wants a really big one. And nobody likes turkey, so she just wants a little one. So they fight over it every Thanksgiving. Anyways, he won 30-pound turkey. He takes it out of the oven and he slips in the d dog dish water. And that's, you know, then the rest you know, you have to imagine. So the reason I tell you that story is that I I like to look at a lot of things in life. So not any longer, but many years ago my husband used to w he goes, I want a big turkey. We're gonna have the turkey leg, you know, we're gonna have the little leftovers, all this stuff. He would always get this huge turkey. Well, we are much younger then, we could lift it out of the
Mary Brotherton: Turkey everywhere.
Linda Wright: out of the oven. But ⁓ you know, I always had this thought in my head that what what's gonna happen when he tries to take that turkey out of the oven? So it it was just always there. Okay, and so that turned into this book.
Mary Brotherton: Ha ha ha. I love that.
Yvonne Mason: And it's not predictable.
Linda Wright: No.
Linda Wright: Yeah.
Mary Brotherton: No.
Linda Wright: No, I agree. I don't like that either. I wanna be like I wanna go, you know, at some point.
Yvonne Mason: Exactly. The last page. The last book that shocked me was in When did it come out? It was the Exorcist.
Mary Brotherton: ⁓ that was in the seventies, I think?
Linda Wright: Wow. That's been a long time, Yvonne.
Yvonne Mason: I think so. That's the last book that shocked me. Because when I read the last sentence, I went, well that didn't end well. Came out of nowhere. Now that's in the seventies. My daughter was born in the seventies. She's fifty years old, so y'all do the math. We as indie authors don't want our readers to become jaded. We don't want to become predictable. And that's why Linda writes the way she writes, while Mary writes the way she writes, while I write the way I write when I get to write, because being predictable is boring.
Linda Wright: It is it's true, but
Yvonne Mason: And and Linda would it be fair to say that writing predictable is boring?
Linda Wright: Yes. It is. So ⁓ okay, I'm gonna get out a couple more of my books here. I brought props to wear so you'd know. Okay, so this is this is you wet this and put it in the freezer and it gets cold. Okay, so this is a story about hello Janie, about two friends that are going through menopause.
Mary Brotherton: Good. We like props.
Yvonne Mason: Yeah.
Linda Wright: Okay, so that's ⁓ totally unpredictable. So the one of ⁓ wears like these she wears a fur coat, but she w but she has these cooling scarves underneath her fur coat and she laughs at her friend who's always sticking her head in the freezer, you know, and sneaking some ice cream while she's in there, 'cause she's sweating. Everybody's sweating. So I wouldn't call that very predictable. And I I will I can tell you a story about this book too. So the premise, it starts there. Jill and her husband are having a fight over the size of the Thanksgiving turkey. He wants a really big one. And nobody likes turkey, so she just wants a little one. So they fight over it every Thanksgiving. Anyways, he won 30-pound turkey. He takes it out of the oven and he slips in the d dog dish water. And that's, you know, then the rest you know, you have to imagine. So the reason I tell you that story is that I I like to look at a lot of things in life. So not any longer, but many years ago my husband used to w he goes, I want a big turkey. We're gonna have the turkey leg, you know, we're gonna have the little leftovers, all this stuff. He would always get this huge turkey. Well, we are much younger then, we could lift it out of the
Mary Brotherton: Turkey everywhere.
Linda Wright: out of the oven. But ⁓ you know, I always had this thought in my head that what what's gonna happen when he tries to take that turkey out of the oven? So it it was just always there. Okay, and so that turned into this book.
Mary Brotherton: Ha ha ha. I love that.
Yvonne Mason: And it's not predictable.
Linda Wright: No.
