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Your initial instinct is correct; who cares? My advice is to re-read some best selling popular fiction. Stephen King, JK Rowling, Orson Scott Card, Dan Brown, or others you like. But switch off ...
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2019-12-19T22:13:11Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T07:11:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Your initial instinct is correct; who cares? My advice is to re-read some best selling popular fiction. Stephen King, JK Rowling, Orson Scott Card, Dan Brown, or others you like. But switch off your brain's entertainment mode, and do this with an analytic eye. See how they mix dialogue and action. See how they handle "fast" action, like a fight. See how long they go without describing something visual. See how long their visual descriptions are. Heck, use them for your punctuation reference, how to do quotes and where to put the commas in dialogue. Write like that. Even if you are doing it for yourself, so when you come back to it and read it cold someday, it won't seem like crap, and you will like the story.
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