: Re: Asking questions in the middle of a narrative I'm writing a short story. And I realized the opening is filled with question marks: Ming was disturbed by the faint sound of a piano. He

I usually recommend not going overboard on questions when coaching writers. The narrative standpoint is, after all, authoritarian. It is just as easy, and less wishy-washy, to convert them to statements. Problems with questions lurk, like: the reader may answer incorrectly, or there may be more ways to round out the question as a statement with details the questions mean to imply.

Questions go well in dialogue. Think of a well-known novelist who narrates with a lot of questions. I can't.

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