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For a first draft, you can use placeholders. XXX, TK (publication shorthand for "to come"), TECH, literally the word [placeholder] in square brackets — anything to indicate that you'll fill in the ...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2019-12-13T12:00:14Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T02:42:35Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/7183 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
For a first draft, you can use placeholders. XXX, TK (publication shorthand for "to come"), TECH, literally the word [placeholder] in square brackets — anything to indicate that you'll fill in the mathguffin details later. Also, feel free to gloss or summarize. The point of the scene is not going to be the math anyway, right? > The professor pointed to the blackboard. > > "You see? If you [TK math thing], you get this result. But if you do _this_ — " He changed some variables and added a new line to the equation. " — then you get [different result]!" > > Ben gasped. "Of course! It makes perfect sense! How could I never have seen this before?" > > "Because I'm a genius," said the professor smugly. > > "And because you had me helping you," came the tart voice of the professor's wife from behind them. Ben winced. _"I_ was the one who pointed out XXX to you," she continued. "You never would have gotten to TKTK if I hadn't pushed you halfway there." If the point of the scene _is_ the math, then you're going to have to do a lot of research very fast.
#1: Imported from external source
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2013-01-31T03:15:04Z (almost 12 years ago)
Original score: 11