Thanks! I was just using a random example but I will bear this in mind.
Hello everyone! My novel is in the 3rd person but the viewpoint is very much from one character. Is it bad style to miss out all the "...he...
There is a great Monty Python sketch about a Proust summarizing competition. No one got more than a few pages into Swann's Way... Anyway, even...
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The only thing that can truly make someone a badass is to drink absinthe neat.
An average chapter in an average novel is between 3,000 and 5,000 words. Many are much shorter than this and some are much longer.
Mordecai Featherstonehaugh. Costume: A solid gold top hat, a floor length leather coat with nothing underneath it, suede boots. Hope this helped.
Separate names with a comma.