I am awful at comedy.
Don't get too obsessive about showing and not telling. As the example above shows, showing can be a lot more verbose at the very least. There are...
In your situation, I wouldn't read it. If you must read it, maybe read something else in between that and when you start your novel so the other...
You sound like one of those very impatient and intolerant people. There's nothing wrong with it. I'm like this myself. I get bored extremely...
I've tried it a couple of times but I found I ended up with a lot of little poems and flashes of story that didn't really integrate. On the plus...
So hard to chose just one .. If I had to tho, I'd chose 2 :p The Beautiful and the Damned (Scott Fitzgerald ) and The Brother Karamazov (...
I'm gonna vote for writing what you like.
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