Writing - Posts tagged style

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How to structure a sentence containing long code examples?

5 answers · last activity 29 days ago by Monica Cellio

style technical-writing examples api-documentation

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In end user documentation, should screenshots come before or after the text that references them?

4 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Monica Cellio

style technical-writing formatting graphics user-guides format

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Maintaining distance

4 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Monica Cellio

fiction style fantasy tone

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How can I shorten a piece of writing without losing its original essence?

2 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Monica Cellio

style structure essay writing-instruments sentence-structure

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How could the disregard for both plot and dialogue tell the story?

5 answers · last activity 5 months ago by Mark Baker

fiction short-story style conventions

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What are good ways to improve as a writer other than writing courses?

9 answers · last activity 5 months ago by Mark Baker

style creative-writing education structure

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Punctuation assistance with complicated list of titles during a formal greeting

3 answers · last activity 5 months ago by Monica Cellio

style punctuation

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Can I conceal an antihero's insanity - and should I?

14 answers · last activity 6 months ago by Mark Baker

fiction style character-development science-fiction science protagonist

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Character and world building in less than 2000 words

3 answers · last activity 6 months ago by Mark Baker

short-story world-building style character-development

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How does someone write a moving Declaration of Independence?

2 answers · last activity 6 months ago by DPT

brainstorming technique style attention

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How to ensure that neurotic or annoying characters don't get tiring in the long run

3 answers · last activity 6 months ago by Amadeus

style characters

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Non-sense question about plot structures

3 answers · last activity 7 months ago by Mark Baker

plot technique style creative-writing structure

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The excessive use of 'and'

5 answers · last activity 7 months ago by Mark Baker

style creative-writing technical-writing academic-writing

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How to write a nice frame challenge?

5 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction technique style non-fiction tone

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How can I make a non-linear timeline less confusing?

9 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

plot style time-depiction

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Correct punctuation for showing a character's confusion

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style punctuation formatting format

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Is there something "wrong" with my writing? How do I improve it? [closed]

4 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style creative-writing structure formatting format

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How do you show, through your narration, a hard and uncaring world?

9 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction style description script science-fiction science narrative

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Do hard to pronounce names break immersion?

14 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction style naming characters

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Is it possible to narrate a novel in a faux-historical style without alienating the reader?

10 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style voice narrator historical-fiction

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Should fiction mention song names and iPods?

5 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction style description script character-development

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What can a novel do that film and TV cannot?

14 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

technique style creative-writing

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Doubt about the difference between a "Beat" and a "Event"

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

plot style creative-writing structure

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Varying POV and tense

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style tenses pov

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Can you use a semicolon to connect fragments that are one item in a vertical list?

1 answer · last activity 8 months ago by System

style punctuation business-writing

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What do sentences look like in a rough draft before they are combined into a cumulative sentence?

7 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style grammar first-draft

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Indent dialogue to make text look less blocky

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style creative-writing dialogue

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Is it plausible for a narrator to "hear" and describe sounds which would normally be out of earshot?

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style creative-writing

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Acronyms in Technical Writing

5 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style technical-writing acronyms

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Classical Style vs. Modern Innovation

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

technique style structure

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How to work in a piece of information that no MC knows, when writing in 3PLtd?

5 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

third-person style narrative

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Can this sentence have the same detail and yet be simple to comprehend? [closed]

5 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

fiction style clarity

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Is alliteration distracting and not very valuable/interesting for the reader?

5 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style creative-writing figures-of-speech

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Should capitalization be used for emphasis for a character's tone?

3 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style formatting capitalization format

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Should I italicize neologisms created by communities?

3 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style creative-writing

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Is there any stylistic reason to avoid the word "got"?

4 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style

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Can I switch from past tense to present tense in an epilogue?

6 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

novel fiction style tenses epilogues

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Attributing a single source in a blog post

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style blog ap-style

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How can I keep my writing from being perceived as "too complicated"

9 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

editing style

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Writing in English, from the viewpoint of a non-English-speaking character, how can I convey a language very similar to the character's own?

3 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style language constructed-language

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Using capital letters and full-stop in bullet points

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

editing style punctuation

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Script-style conversations in a book

4 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style

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How to Explain the Pronunciation of a Conlang Within the Text of the Novel

3 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style language constructed-language

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Turning normal phrases into gerund phrases: What's the effect in the reader?

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style creative-writing structure grammar

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How can I Switch Protagonists Between Books?

13 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

novel fiction style series characters

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Highly metaphorical writers

3 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style metaphor

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Will what worked 'back then' work today? (Novels)

4 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style readers creative-writing

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How do I make sure my audience is aware of subplots?

3 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

plot style subplot

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Structuring a sentence with two phrases qualifying the same ending

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

editing style

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How to make a mimicking character believable

5 answers · last activity 8 months ago by System

style word-choice