Posts by user49466
From a pure publishing perspective, super explicit depictions will turn a lot of publishers off, nevermind readers. I have a pretty high tolerance, and usually what I ask is how neccesarry a scene...
No You merely need to ensure the reader understands who is thinking, and that the text is thought. E.g. "Trevor stood before her, like an ebony sculpture, even more imposing than she remembered....
These are the factors that influence where the line is. It will be floating, depending on context. The following would increase reader sympathy, given a morally dubious main character: Motivation...
I'm having a very hard time finding a list and examples of stylistic subgenre conventions. To be specific: how genre writing impacts things like sentence length, dialogue, the tone of adjectives, ...
