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Edit Post #6306 Initial revision almost 5 years ago
Edit Post #6303 Initial revision almost 5 years ago
Answer A: Cutting down on paragraph size
I hope this explains what's been said as opposed to reiterating it. -ing phrases slow the pace. Subsidiary clauses slow the pace. You're writing action. Don't slow the pace. Modern middle school English teachers ask students for sentence variation. -ing phrases are a common result. These phrases may...
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about 12 years ago
Answer A: Is it really necessary to add things like "I thought, I wondered, etc," in first-person narrative?
It is not necessary to tag these thoughts in first, second, or third person narration. In third person narration, the unattributed thought or narrative embodiment of the speaker's voice is called free indirect discourse, and James Wood writes about it extensively in early sections of How Fiction Work...
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about 12 years ago