16.34: Novels Are Layer Cakes
Writing Excuses
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What's the Difference Between Short Stories and Novels?
A lot of this will come down to a word choice specificity. It's what is the character noticing? What order do you feed that information to the reader? Which pieces are you telling versus which pieces are you showing? Is this sentence a long sentence or a short sentence? What is my word choice here? Am i going to say, pulled out of a chair or jerked out of achair? Ecause those are two different things. This is, ah, this is complicated.
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