/lit/ - Literature

Taking the day off work. Novel Draft 3 starting this afternoon after I finish reading.

I don't notice any plot problems in my second draft, each part connects and is nested to sustain conflict. After cleaning up some characterization errors, I'm going to the third draft for literary devices. Some of these come out automatically, but I want to be conscious of how they're working in each scene and where I might use some. For example, I may use amplification on several critical points so they won't be glossed over.

I am also using diacope in scenes where a character is overwhelmed with emotion. Here's an example from Ray Bradbury's "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" where he repeats "look" and "chandelier". For context, the character Acton is trying to hide his fingerprints after a murder but he doesn't know what all he has touched.
>His mouth slipped open and the tongue moved along his lips and he looked at the chandelier and looked away and looked back at the chandelier and looked at Huxley's body and then at the crystal chandelier with its long pearls of rainbow glass.