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What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.
~ Nicolas Cage
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While drama is part of our everyday life, it also keeps the wheel turning in your story. Twists and turns help. Without those your story would probably be boring. However, they do walk hand in hand with conflict. Wouldn't you say so?
As an avid reader who switched from all romance-all the time to horror, mystery, supernatural, even science fiction sometimes, I understand that without drama there wouldn't be any conflict in a story. The better the plot twist, the more drama it creates. One thing that I did notice though is how certain writers tend to drag out scenes. What could have been good writing turns into the complete opposite and in the end, bores the reader.
That's the last thing you want to do! The whole point is to enjoy it, flip the pages as if a gust of wind blew through them. Describing things too much, or repetitive explanations tend to wear the reader down. At some point, if things continue as they are, most people will put the book to the side. Wouldn't you?
That brings us to the voice of writing. Is it passive or active? Many people don't see or understand the difference between these two. To be honest, it took me some time to figure it out for myself. If you use a sentence such as 'George loves Trisha.' as the example, that would be the active voice. 'George' represents the subject. 'loves' is the action. The passive voice would be 'Trisha is loved by George.' When written this way, Trisha becomes the subject but she isn't doing anything. Straight forward sentences are better because they are straight to the point, use less words and won't confuse the reader.
Another thing to watch when writing in this particular genre would be the show vs. tell. We may tell our stories, but when writing you want to show them. No one wants you to tell them that the moon is shining. They want to see the reflection of it in the window. They don't want to know it rained, they want to feel drops on their face. Description is the main part of showing, thus, including your reader into the story. When you use a passive voice and on top of that tell the story rather then show its beauty, the writing becomes very mundane and the reader gets bored.
Don't bore the reader! 
'Til next time!
~ Gaby 
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Drama: August 16, 2017 Issue [#8443]
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