Amazon offers a beta version of their KDP reports data that shows pages read for a period of time that you, the author, specify. Here is mine for the past 90 days. Unfortunately, pages read has declined, even during the stay-at-home Covid virus time. I backed off on my advertising dollars so awareness has likely dropped.

A meandering tidbit indeed but entertaining still. Hmmmm...plotting my next move to the cupboard for a snack. Thanks for posting. I wonder if the Shady Lady has a plot featuring a Belgian Malinois warrior dog, retired but still full of spirit.

Just read this thread now so my comments may be unnecessary.

I write my action adventure tales mostly in first. It allows me to show the wry, sarcastic side of my ex-Navy SEAL main character, Charley Manner, with his narration along with his dialogue. In DEEP STRAIT, I tried adding some scenes from his war dog's POV. Great fun. Many readers sent me positive feedback and want to see more of Spirit. The pic attached is her slashing at would-be kidnappers when they tried to abduct a young girl.

Of course, the story is impossible to write entirely in Charley's first since several scenes, such as back room plotting by the villains take place without Charley present. Third person POV is mainly adopted but even there, I sometimes use the first POV of the antagonist as he commands the scene, dominating over his thugs.

In any case, given my limited experience as a serious writer (okay, maybe not so serious with my sometimes over the top action adventures), I try not to stress about structure and rules, other than maintaining clarity about who is narrating. Close attention to proper scene breaks or new chapters is paramount as others have said.

Hillwalker has published an ambitious project in his novel, TALLAHATCHIE LIES, in which he repeats many parts of the story in subsequent chapters as seen by a different character. It gave the reader an interesting re-look at what actually happened as recalled by more than one character. Not easy to do (for me) but he pulled it off well, IMO. Might be worth a look to see how he did it.

Good luck, Annmarie.

Hmmmmm,...very interesting. I could not make out all the words in the pic but the title, Session Man, evokes images of someone deep into psychotherapy, or maybe a serial killer planning his next "session" with an unlucky victim. Great fun conjecturing. Go for it, Gyppo.

The third book in the Charley Manner series is finally available on Amazon. Dang it, RL keeps slowing my writing. Getting married in three weeks!

Best to all,
Michael aka AQ

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@His Gypship: Fingers working reasonably well after hand surgery early November. Writing more and also a little golf, if the rains let up.

@Lady Bannister: No capital b does look less jarring. When I search-and-replace it is, as Charley would say, "easy peasy." Yikes, I discovered that I use "bro" a dozen times throughout the story. Perhaps a bit too much.

Thanks for the advice. Good discussion. Alas, no hard and fast rule, but that is creative writing.

A delightful ditty, Gyppo. (I noted the rhythm in her finger taps, lol). The "lyrics" are pure Gyppo-people-watching at its finest. Reminds me to apply the practice to my character descriptions. Guarding against verbosity, of course. Thanks for sharing.

Welcome back, Noiz. 😎