How It Feels to Float 📖

How It Feels to Float

Fox Helena
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literary fiction contemporary literary fiction with magical realism elements past tense first POV ~300 pp

Vibe

melancholic existential haunting

A dark literary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 95
externalintrospective
Ending 30
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 40%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 50%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count74,959
Page count~300 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst