Meet Me at the Lake 📖

Meet Me at the Lake

Carley Fortune
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contemporary fiction romantic drama past tense first POV ~364 pp

Vibe

melancholic romantic angsty

A contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable romance, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 85
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 10%
noneextreme
Sexual content 90%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 95%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count91,116
Page count~364 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst