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Comments of chapter undefined of A Dickensian Romance

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Sake_Vision
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You nailed the style tbh. How many 19th century novels do I need to read to write like that?

Buella_1553
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I'm a huge fan of Robert Louis Stevenson, in possession of a collection of several of his most prominent works, so there's that; Jane Eyre, obviously a number of works by Dickens... Just the classics, really. It's not so much about how many, but how closely you read them: I analyzed them closely, and saw that punctuation was key: the writers of the era were far more varied in their punctuation, which allowed for more creative and--I would say--elegant sentence structures; to say nothing of the wider vocabularies typically on display, and archaic usages of certain words like "directly." You see, I've always had an inclination for longwinded sentences, and as such it was a natural fit to my own developing style; at once an artificial transmogrification, which now feels to be completely natural.