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> > It's even more relevant in a novel. No matter what genre you're writing in, every word should count. If writers need to stretch their story to make it into a novel, they shouldn't be writing novels in the first place.
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> I shouldn't have used the word 'padding' in the original follow-up. This'll teach me to post when I'm tired. I kinda hope, though, that everyone else can see what I was *trying* to get at despite my poor choice of words.
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> -Trunks
My late friend the novelist Richard Marius once said in a speech that it is true that novelists sometimes makes things up. Nonetheless, they must spend countless hours in libraries doing research to make sure that the stories come out right. Sometimes stories are rewritten many times just to find the right choice of words. --Calvin