Hey, everyone. I'm new here.
I've ordered the home-study course for Christmas, and I can't wait to get started. I am a University student with a good average, but with room for improvement.
However, I do have a question, and no doubt it's probably been asked before. I am an avid reader of novels, and from what I've read of the PR technique, it seems that you engulf the book as a whole and draw things out of it. But aren't novels different from technical writing in that they are linear (ie. the way your left-brain reads) and meant to be read a word or a sentence at a time?
I'm not presupposing that once I learn PR that I will never PR a novel, but I have to ask... Does the story you read in a book in 20 minutes hold the same meaning as when you've read it over a few hours?
I am 22 years old, and I am not ashamed to admit that upon reaching the ends of a couple of well-remembered books I have been forced to tears. But I fail to see how this could happen by PRing the same novel and then "activating" it later. Wouldn't it be like knowing the ending before you even start?
I'm skeptical, but still willing to approach PR with and open mind. With all of the success stories and the popularity of this forum, I have little doubt that PR is an immense help when dealing with technical writing. That skill is something I hope to put to great use in my university career. Yet I just want a detailed explanation about the PRing of novels and how one can perceive them as linear stories instead of a PRed deluge of events which does not take the time to build up to a significantly emotional climax.
I myself read relatively fast when I am in a "relaxed" state, although I haven't gotten the course yet so I don't know what their version of "relaxing" entails. I have been known to go through 400 page books without speed reading in less than 5 hours (four pages every three minutes), but still it was linear. Perhaps I am just unenlightened, but I can't see reading novels any other way and getting the same emotional effect.
GreyWyvern
