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>reading story
>author shows characters thoughts and outlooks on life through narration instead of monologues and soliloquies

>> No.14140956

>>14140940
It's VERY difficult to pull off the way you propose. Because you're risking sounding cringe, using your characters as mouthpieces, and relying on exposition instead of actions.

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>>14140940
>monologues in third person novels

>> No.14141554

Yes, I do love the Russian author Dostoevsky, how did you know?

>> No.14141567

>>14140956
Get better at writing characters then

>> No.14142599

>>14140940
Evil dog

>> No.14142610

>>14140956
>you're risking sounding cringe
Cringe

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>>14140940
>soliloquies
Can't the narrator do the monologue though?