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This is the kind of question that can be answered by looking at books you admire. Find the most exciting, vivid novel you can, and see how many exclamation points the author uses. Not very many, I ...
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System
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2019-12-08T10:02:59Z (over 4 years ago)
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Mark Foskey
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2019-12-08T10:02:59Z (over 4 years ago)
This is the kind of question that can be answered by looking at books you admire. Find the most exciting, vivid novel you can, and see how many exclamation points the author uses. Not very many, I suspect. Then, without copying the author's words, try to learn from what they did to create the vividness that you experience. I recognize that this is the kind of answer that can be applied to lots of questions on this site, so I hope it's not inappropriate. But sometimes a real example of writing that works is more reliable than any piece of advice.
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System
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2018-10-31T04:25:39Z (over 5 years ago)
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