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This was a data error -- the post you flagged was spam, we do some extra stuff when nuking spam, and something went wrong. Fixed now. You won't see the post you flagged because it's completely go...
In my book, Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process, I make a distinction between three domains of markup, the subject, document, and presentation domain. CSS is a presentation domain language. HT...
As a general rule of thumb, CSS defines presentation, while the HTML should express semantic meaning and document structure. The HTML spec is clear that the <code> element represents a fragm...
We publish documentation online using HTML. For things like fixed parameter names and other code literals, we use <code> tags. My question is about styling these in tables. On our referenc...
We can create Writing Reviews. I think about something that is same as Code Review in Codidact Software Development. I am not a good writer at all. I would be very happy if someone just review my...
Have you considered a simple comment system, something like Disqus. There is a certain amount of spam protection built into those systems, you can choose to moderate posts, and people can subscribe...
Why not email? We'd rather not ask for email addresses; this should feel completely opt-in and safe to the person offering us the feedback. I assume this is a totally open system - no "login"...
How to present the question This section doesn't directly answer your questions, but address problems with such web pages that are all too common. I'm one of those that pretty much never answers ...
We publish a substantial documentation set online. Each page has a place at the bottom that asks "was this helpful? (Y/N)", and if the person chooses "no" we offer a textbox. We collect all this ...
Not sure if this is what haikus are meant to sound like, but here goes: Blue and green planet Huge, yet so tiny in space A view from the moon
What do you want a blog for? If you just want to share your day to day life with the world, that's what Facebook and Instagram are for now. People who blog these days are either selling something o...
I am thinking of starting a blog and wondering how I should approach it. Is it better to have a niche blog or is general/miscellaneous content fine?
In the cool light breeze, twittering birds in the trees enjoy the sun's warmth
If it is about text changes, I'd use diff files (in particular the “unified diff” format which also many version control systems use), with a caveat mentioned below. You can create the diff file by...
For some reason, I can't access my flags page (https://writing.codidact.com/users/53196/flags). It just returns a 500 server error. It seems to only be only on this community for some reason; I ca...
I wrote a blog post a little while back about what it means for a reader to identify with a protagonist: https://gmbaker.net/avatar-friend-and-shrink-three-modes-of-reader-intimacy/ I identified t...
In this article about different categories of heroes, Matt Bird states that sensitive and unlucky heroes are hard to write because audiences have a hard time caring about them. He says: American...
So having said all that, it turns out that my publisher publishes novellas. https://chrismpress.com/books/magdalen-montague/ This may perhaps be something that small presses, particularly those th...
My information is all of the negative variety, but in all the research I have done over the years on publishers and agents I have never seen one that wanted novellas. The novella always was, I beli...
The Hugo awards are prominent fan awards in the SF&F genre. In 2021, I noticed that all of the finalists in the Novella category are from a single publisher, Tor.com. Novellas have, I underst...
Writing positively about yourself can be hard. It feels like bragging, which feels rude. What I've found helps is to frame it as a specific marketing project. It's not that I would go around boa...
Tell us why you would be a good leader Typical interview question, they are hoping that you will say certain things they are looking for... but what those are will be different from case to ca...
I've always struggled writing about myself, but I need to apply for a program and the application has a lot of very broad but personal questions like, Tell us why you would be a good leader Exp...
Just use the other possessive form: The paper of Einstein et al. stated the opposite conclusion. Although it would read better if you replaced “of” with “by”, but then it would no longer be a...
Note: I can't comment on how this is generally approached in other subjects, but you're referencing Einstein, so as a physicist, I feel semi-qualified to weigh in on how we do it in physics. Note t...
