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  1. Books:
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  3. Dialogue is usually indented from the rest of the text
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  5. Books are usually more formal, but can be informal
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  7. Books usually have a lot of descriptive text in them, and less dialogue.
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  9. ' "Drew!" called his mother, but the cry was in vain '
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  11. Indent each paragraph/group of sentences that have to do with eachother
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  13. Good adjective and verb choice is important to the tone of a scene or narrative
  14. "Pleaded"/"Begged" vs "Asked"
  15. "Rushed" vs "Ran"
  16. "Walked" vs "Paced"
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  18. Books tend to show change less outright or imply it instead
  19. ' "Put her down," said the old soldier[Protagonist's Father after thinking Protag was their mother's murderer] ' Rather than outright stating at this moment that Protag's father feels distant with them, so much as to feel like they aren't his child, or that he thinks of this moment in comparison to his soldier past, the book implies it instead by referring to him as "the old soldier" instead of his name or as "Protag's father".
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  21. Books tend to go awhile without any dialogue, just descriptions of scenery, or character thoughts
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  23. Dialogue is rarely a back and forth, most of the time it's one line sprawled out within lots of descriptive text
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  25. Books usually keep the full focus of each scene on developing their narrative, rather than having an action scene or something of the like, that doesn't help develop it, and if they do have such scenes, they serve some sort of purpose in the story.
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