The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
How To Write Science FictionAlphabet soup is my magic eight ball. Served hot or cold, words are delicious.
Better to be able to love than to be loveableYou ain't never going to get rich that way, Johnson. And there's money in that dick. Lots of money.
Hot Valley: A NovelHot, hard and so thick that her fingertips didn't meet when she closed her hand around him.
The Iron Duke