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Heavy-handed means you force your plot, your characters, your prose, your dialog, and any other aspect of your writing, to fit a preconceived concept, regardless of how well or naturally it integra...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T04:01:07Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Chris Sunami
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2019-12-08T04:01:07Z (about 5 years ago)
_Heavy-handed_ means you force your plot, your characters, your prose, your dialog, and any other aspect of your writing, to fit a preconceived concept, regardless of how well or naturally it integrates with the writing. In other words, you write with no subtlety or realism. It's a subjective judgment, so it is hard to provide examples, but here's an exaggerated one I just made up: > Sheila smiled. She had vanquished the evil, greedy, squirrel-kicking lawyer, and it felt so good. We get it, the lawyer is a bad guy --the writing doesn't need to be so _heavy handed_.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2015-02-02T17:31:43Z (almost 10 years ago)
Original score: 15