Fast Forward

 Because this book is a very fast paced story, it does a good job with skipping and leaving out unnecessary details and parts nobody would really have cared about. This is a particularly good technique to use when writing short stories or novels. Sometimes, we might feel the need to include every last detail to help the reader better understand what's going on, but a quick summary is usually enough. Adding too many unneeded details will bore the reader and take away from the writing.

 On page 164, it says, "At four we went out to the runway and found Apache warming up. The flight back took thirty minutes," and then, "my car was in the airport lot where I'd left it..." Just from that, the reader already knows everything he needs to know. I wrote before that this story was written in a diary-type format, and just like how someone would only include the bigger events or details of a particular topic, this book does the same thing. It concentrates the writing on more important things. As writers, we should remember to keep our longer pieces free of unnecessary retellings of events and details.