the fun of a shocker
5th April 2017 | for Creatives | reading, books, film, reaching your audience, story endings, Debra Spark |
"How I love the fun of a shocker, the I-had-no-idea-wouldn't-have-guessed-in-a-million-years surprise. My jaded self reads the summary of a movie or book and thinks, 'Well, I know what that will be about. No thank you.'" How I love to be proven wrong."
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