This is more than just slightly over-wrought floral descriptions, however. The scenes aren’t allowed to breathe.įriends speak, rather than hold internal monologues, Hachiman. Not so in light novels, we must at all times know what the characters actually think, what is their take on every little thing that occurs. Yes, some people might interpret things differently, but that isn’t a bug, but a feature.
If one trusts their writing, and if one trusts their characters and situations to pass muster on their own, then you can just present the scene and let people interpret the characters on their own. They also show a certain uncertainty as to the quality of one’s writing, to its efficacy in transmitting information without resorting to this tool. All these adjectives and adverbs are there to ensure we don’t miss anything, and to tell us how the protagonist views the world. You see, these descriptions in LNs rarely happen from the point of view of a detached third-person describing events, but are almost always presented in the form of the protagonist narrating the events they see. 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:
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