The opposite way down
Liza steps out of her hotel room and walks down the hallway. Just then, the masked guy steps out of the room next door, but instead of following her he heads the opposite way down the hall and rounds a corner.
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In fiction you are pretty much on your own for word choice and phrasing. Each person would write that differently. As long as you make sense and are idiomatic and grammatical, you're good, and you are in this instance if your readers know where she is in relation to "the room next door".
- In fiction you are pretty much on your own for word choice and phrasing.
- Each person would write that differently.
- As long as you make sense and are idiomatic and grammatical, you're good, and you are in this instance if your readers know where she is in relation to "the room next door".
- But if you twisted my arm, I would say to drop "down the hall": Liza steps out of her hotel room and walks down the hallway.
- Just then, the masked guy steps out of the room next door, but instead of following her he heads the opposite way and rounds a corner.
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In fiction you are pretty much on your own for word choice and phrasing. Each person would write that differently. As long as you make sense and are idiomatic and grammatical, you're good, and you are in this instance if your readers know where she is in relation to "the room next door". But if you twisted my arm, I would say to drop "down the hall":
Liza steps out of her hotel room and
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