Add copious descriptive details.
What disconcerts the literati is that the graphic novelist does not have to resort to copious textual descriptions, but can convey a concrete visual image directly and clearly to readers.
Harris, whose previous novels include "Pompeii" and the World War II thriller "Enigma," doesn't take the path of many other writers of historical fiction and provide copious, painstaking descriptions of meals, wardrobes, palaces and the like to summon a long-ago, far-away past.
He wrote impressions in his copious journals and descriptions on the back of his watercolors: "Crabbed old age sits in front of the black doorway without hope for the future, brooding.
Outside the unprepossessing state capitol, a street vendor sold me a delicious, fresh burrito filled with cabbage and stewed pork; though the food on the ship was copious and diverse, it was often saddled with descriptions like, "A rainbow of a medley of fruits," and so this ad hoc alfresco snacking seemed especially piquant.
Fortunately, O'Neill was a copious writer of stage directions, sometimes giving long, meticulous descriptions of his characters as they are introduced and precise indications of both actions and their emotional inflection.
The Venice-based ephemeral messaging app has obviously left its Amazon Prime account in the hands of the startup's weed dealer, given the copious Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy references in the description and the very idea that anyone wants to own a $25 towel with Snapchat's logo on it.
There are copious caveats.
Copious amounts of red wine.
Contrast these with Bai's description of the Democrat Richard Blumenthal: "biding his time with the patience of a monk," he "doggedly shows up everywhere, listens attentively, takes copious notes and makes prudent statements".
