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"Dead?" Yup.
"Drinks blood?" Yup.
"Turns into a bat?" Yup.
"Is it a vampire?" No, we call it a plasmosucking werebat.
"Err... you know what a vampire is, right?"

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: I think that it might work if you switched tense at a large break in the story, such as a chapter. This would especially work well if you were switching the POV character. A friend in

: Describing a Character Traveling: Too much narrative? I am new to writing and I am trying to a write a novel. In the first chapter, my main character travels from her hometown to a different

: How to avoid slipping into fault-finding when reading? Ever since I started taking my writing seriously, I have had trouble getting immersed in books. Every reading session devolves into analyzing

: Do I quote this, italicize, or something else? The sentence is: â€œWhere do you want these?â€ Jonâ€™s publisher asked, bobbling a box with the word books scrawled across the side. What do I

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: I think that it might work if you switched tense at a large break in the story, such as a chapter. This would especially work well if you were switching the POV character. A friend in

: Describing a Character Traveling: Too much narrative? I am new to writing and I am trying to a write a novel. In the first chapter, my main character travels from her hometown to a different

: How to avoid slipping into fault-finding when reading? Ever since I started taking my writing seriously, I have had trouble getting immersed in books. Every reading session devolves into analyzing

: Do I quote this, italicize, or something else? The sentence is: â€œWhere do you want these?â€ Jonâ€™s publisher asked, bobbling a box with the word books scrawled across the side. What do I

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