No action can simply be carried out, but everything must be narrated, everything must be commentated. Well, time to break that down.įirst thing that leaps at you, which is completely a stylistic choice is how many adjectives and adverbs there are. Light Novels not only would fail according to the Hemingway App (which redlines your text based on Hemingway’s style), and Stephen King’s advice in “On Writing”, but are very intensely modern, in the sense that they put the individual at the center. He could see the course the fight would take, if you could even call it a fight, as he was sure he knew all the moves his opponent would take.”
“He smirked, holding his sword confidently in hand. “He stared intently at her shapely leg, while thinking wryly to himself that he understood her completely in that moment.”Īnd if you think that this isn’t typical of action LNs, then to reinforce this is about style, here is another quote I whipped up in half a minute: First, to get us started, here is something I consider a quintessential example of light novels, which isn’t actually from any given LN, but had been written by myself: