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 Yeah, differences in cultures and languages are always hilarious like that.

And it’s very funny how you can get used to it so completely XD

Oh there are so many. A few for book one are a several of the big confrontation scenes,  writing the MC’s arc, developing a friendship, writing a house fight, and writing the climax.

Sounds like a really fun project! It’s always the best when you can’t decide what will be the most fun.

TTD was approixmately 170k, and this one will be around that, so yes, a tad longer probably.

It was that long? My second book is 130k and 460 pages long, yours is 40k longer but thirty pages shorter. I guess that’s the formatting difference!

How many books are you planning for that series?

That’s a good length. Most popular YAish stuff is around that 100k-150k mark.

I don’t have the attention span for anything longer XD

Oddly enough, with my second book, I discovered that I had a weak spot in the same place as TTD, the area just before the midpoint. I guess that’s a hard part to write or maybe that’s the point I get impatient with books, it could be either.

Yeah, I knew my paragraphs were too big, I’ll keep that in mind.

Aren’t I allowed to break up a paragraph even if the topic didn’t change? If it was getting too long for instance?

Yep! I do that quite a lot. That was just a rule of thumb.

That was all one paragraph like I wrote it there. Dialogue at the beginning, introspection in the same paragraph. I do that often, both in that way, and in reverse order. Thoughts?

I remember you did the reverse order several times and it threw me off every time. I don’t think that’s the best way, it gets lost in the introspection.

As for the former, it may be a stylistic choice, but I’d break it off at “If the Baptist trusted Annan, then perhaps she had misjudged him.” and make the rest a seperate paragraph. I generally prefer shorter paragraphs, as I mentioned before. I’m not sure whether leaving it together is the correct way. It may be.

To make my question on the dialogue punctuation clearer, please tell me if the following things are true:

Okay, you’re pretty close, I think the only issues are here:

This is incorrect: “I hate cars,” Roger said, “they are weird.” (I did this one a lot in TTD, and if I’m not mistake, the only change should be that the commas after “said” should be a period, and the in t in “they” should be capitalized)

I’m pretty sure that’s correct, though that would change if you had an action instead of a dialogue tag.

“I hate cars,” Roger said. “–they are weird.”

You wouldn’t put an em-dash there.

“You only use an em-dash when–” she paused to push the cat off the table, “–you’re interrupting a sentence with an action.”

“Though that also counts–” she started

“When someone else interrupts,” he finished.

Again, I’m not absolutely positive on these, and I only noticed it in the first part, after that it may have happened but the only thing I really registered was when you didn’t put dialogue seperate from introspection.

You don’t really need to over-analyze that as you’re drafting, but it is something to keep in mind later.