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Welcome to a new home for the Writing community. Please use it, report problems and make requests on Meta, and collect your thoughts about what we need to support our community. This site is runn...
I was hoping that our code of conduct could be something closer to the "be nice" model, something like this: Be respectful and polite. Presume everyone else is doing so, too. Be open to construct...
So: a little bit of background, and a little bit of information about the site. Background QPixel is a project I started a few years ago to be a clone of SE. It got to a decent stage, and then I ...
I did not find a webpage that explains what's on-topic here (although I'm not hugely familiar with the site). Question: What topics can I ask about here? It seems plausible that what's on-topic a...
Writing Challenge #1 2020-05-06 Hello folks! Mith here. It was suggested over at Let's restart writing challenges! that we should give writing challenges a spin again, here on Writing.CD this t...
I start writing a short story, I'm loving it. If I didn't love it, if I didn't want to tell it, I wouldn't be writing it. I finish the first draft, I still love it, and am so proud of completing i...
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...
To me, the recognition of an actual fault is specific, I can point to exactly what is wrong and state exactly why it is wrong. While self-doubt, for me, is generally vague. e.g. What if this is lik...
TL;DR: I've just created a Code of Conduct, and I'd like your feedback on it. Let's see if we can make a better go of this than Stack Exchange, hey? It's mostly based on the Community Covenant Co...
(Okay, design changes have a-come.) If you're wondering what happened here, the short of it is that the site's design has been updated to use the Codidact design framework, which will make the eve...
This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on another answer. I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on. As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else ...
I just looked up what Borland wrote in their user manual of the Turbo Pascal UI back when using a mouse was optional and the UI could be operated also by keyboard (you don't click on the keyboard e...
It's difficult to predict how the majority of people would react: it might be subject to opinion. Surely someone would scoff at the jokes or at the imaginary dragon-riding. Thus said, in my opinion...
I notice we have a dearth of activity on this site. With a relatively small number of active users, perhaps we can add a tab to the "Questions" Page. We have Activity, Age, Score as sorting algori...
The "Why" is that we want the MC (Main Character, or Main Crew) to undergo some sort of struggle in order to get from the end of the Act I to the beginning of Act III. Because that is what makes th...
No. When you "import" your content from Stack Exchange, you're actually just claiming content that's already here - when this site was set up, I imported the December 2019 data dump. That means tw...
We've had low activity on our community for a while. Low activity means people visit less often, which means lower activity because they're not here asking and answering... iterate. We have ads a...
Writing Challenge #3 July 7, 2020 Welcome to the third installment of Writing.CD's topic challenges! Last time, the challenge was "What the thunder said". The past two challenges have both been fo...
Recently, I threw together a draft of a policy page about promotional content, with some guidelines on what to keep in mind to avoid spamming. (Incidentally, this is for Codidact itself.) I decided...
In this answer, Mark Baker makes a statement about story: All story ideas are basically a variation on one thing. A man (or woman, or child, or small furry animal) has two desires, both of which h...
Sometimes exposition is just necessary. Although there's plenty of youtube videos with examples in films of exposition done right, I'm struggling to find good examples of written exposition. I te...
It's said that writers improve through writing. Maybe true, but I've discovered the first draft of any new piece I write is still really, really bad. The characters are flat, the descriptions lac...
One of the biggest obstacles I've encountered learning Chinese is the incredibly dull and boring textbooks. Yes, the grammar in them is important, but it's so boring! Typical writing reads like: ...
In my post-apocalyptic novel, my protagonist is not necessarily "good", and although the antagonist is an honest and kind person, my protagonist perceives her as "evil". My antagonist is the leade...
I've not done collaborative writing before, but I've read several works, and sometimes the text strikes me as having a split personality: some parts were clearly written by one author, while others...
