/lit/, when did you put on your big-boy pants, buck the pseuds, and admit to yourself that Bulwer-Lytton literally did nothing wrong?
>>23628916THE SUPREME ANGLOID LORD BULWER-LYTTON DEMANDS APOLOGETICS OF HIGHER QUALITY. YOU DISHONORED YOUR KING AND COUNTRY. LEAVE THIS NOVOCASTRIAN ROYAL TENNIS FORUM AT ONCE AND NEVER COME BACK!
>>23628916He could have started with an action/dialogue and added the description of the surroundings later in-between.Describung the scene first sounds more like a film manuskript.I don't think the first half of the scene is bad at all, I feel like>It was a stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets.He could've mentioned that it's in london later on. I also don't think that you have to mention that the stormy night is dark, the reader can guess that much.
