Anya_Nesh I've always had trouble finishing books. Few were the ones I read to the end. The first books I read to the end and reread several times were "Hamlet" and "The Tempest" by Shakespeare. However, I never read them for entertainment, I always started with curiosity and ended with identification. I remember once, many years ago, I read a Yugioh fanfic with more than 200 caps that unfortunately was deleted.
The story had dialogs, which often copied perfectly real dialogs that I had in an old roller coaster relantionship. It was so similar, and repeated so many times that I finally finished reading all 200 chapters in 5 days, staying up all night to read it. What made me have a real and fantasy perspective (too paradoxical this sentence hehe) of my ex relationship.
In short: identification.
In my novels, even if they are adapted, all the casual dialogues and romantic scenes are based on situations already lived by me (except for the death and murder part).