100% with you on this one. It’s lazy writing and, as you point out, often unnecessary. I blame creative writing courses. If the story is interesting enough and the characters strong enough then a book won’t need artificial ‘teasers’ to maintain interest. If we’re reading a third person perspective following the action through the dialogue of characters or observation of their actions then fair enough, we are not privy to their unspoken knowledge. But when writing in the first person perspective it serves only to break the flow of the connection when we are suddenly and inexplicably shut out of portions of the inner dialogue.
100% with you on this one. It’s lazy writing and, as you point out, often unnecessary. I blame creative writing courses. If the story is interesting enough and the characters strong enough then a book won’t need artificial ‘teasers’ to maintain interest. If we’re reading a third person perspective following the action through the dialogue of characters or observation of their actions then fair enough, we are not privy to their unspoken knowledge. But when writing in the first person perspective it serves only to break the flow of the connection when we are suddenly and inexplicably shut out of portions of the inner dialogue.