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This is why the clique system is such a wonderful tool for authors. For any group that tends to hang out you only need to ever name one or two of the most prominent members, and then describe actions of those groups by reference to those members. Compare:

"Harold, Mike, Jules, Ron, Gregor and Paul were being rowdy as usual"

"Harold and his cronies were being rowdy as usual"

Because, for better or for worse, schools tend fall apart into groups. Use that.

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: Where are standard wordcounts for different types of fiction found? I've heard it said on here that 100,000 words is about right for a novel, 20,000 is about a novella and much too much for

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: Ironically the aphorism "Show don't tell" neither shows nor tells. Hence new writers are confused about its meaning and are prone to transposing the verbs.

: You're a technical writer so I'll speak to you in your language. You know what a sine wave looks like, right? Think of good drama as maximizing the distance between the high and low peaks

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