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David Gemmell and Bernard Cornwell are both well-known (in certain circles at least) for their excellent battle scenes. Simon Scarrow also does an excellent job with combat scenes. Robert Low is ac...
Cannot go wrong with Robert Ludlum such as the Bourne Trilogy which someone already mentioned or Prometheus Deception.
A number of good answers, indeed. But why not just leave it as "foreign"? Flavor indeed. Don't think it's too hard to find out, and it gives not just flavor but authenticity. Compare original-l...
First remember that for many readers "Colonel" and "Sergeant" are just as alien as "Oberst" and "Feldwebel". A civilian who doesn't know rank may well assume both are just some kind of soldier. T...
In case foreign definitions occur more than once or twice, I would keep foreign names in the text, with no explanation or footnote. It would be then convenient to provide a glossary of all foreign...
You can also use an appendix. These don't have to be as dry and as detailed as they have the reputation for. (I think Lord of the Rings put many writers off using an appendix). For instance, Sim...
Snappy headline. Compelling lead. Say what you liked. Say what you didn't like. Optional: a little analysis. Optional: compare some aspect of the film, actors, or director to something else in the...
I like suggesting that they may have already done it, in case they have! Dear xxx, If you haven't already, please take a moment to ... If you have, thank you. Regards, xxx
Regarding the bullet point on the message being "respectful", I would like to point out something which I don't see being stated explicitly in any of the previous answers. This goes equally for bot...
Find a screen writing group and see how they work. It will give you a venue for feedback on your work and it will give you access to a group of people who have developed a process to get feedback o...
A screenplay can be much less wordy than a short story since the screenplay is not the final product--the film is. I suggest going straight to the script. My problem is that I have very little fr...
I think part of the difficulty with the sentence can be corrected by emphasizing the problem being reported: Using the print functionality after doing a search in the Web Product Provider (...
To me, it seems that your examples don't include a sequence of nouns, but nouns that are more than one word. Here are your examples, with added quotes to delimit the nouns: The "Web Product Prov...
Several blogs demonstrate before/after (or at least detailed line-edits on early drafts). Evil Editor often does it for query letters. Edittorrent covers all sorts of topics, and the archives hav...
Orson Scott Card gives a great example of 4 drafts for the opening of Ender's Shadow, explaining as he goes why each draft isn't what he wants. Sounds like exactly what you're looking for - you can...
If you go through the twelve slush books which Christopher Tolkien assembled from his father's writings (collectively called The History of Middle-Earth), you can see practically line-for-line how ...
I Am Not A Lawyer, but so far as I know, you can make your will as formal or casual as you like. What matters is that it's signed as yours. I don't know the legal requirements for having it dated o...
I am a lawyer from California and I can tell you there are very specific requirements to writing a valid Will. If you mess up (and people often do) the whole things winds up in Probate Court and co...
I think it depends on what you're looking for. People take writing classes for several reasons: to receive instruction from a teacher; to meet other writers; to have your work critiqued by a group;...
I'm an online tutor. I don't know that online writing classes "do" help improve writing skills, but I know they can. It's a matter of finding a tutor who is not only skilled, but compatible with ...
They are all grammatically correct (as far as I'm aware), but I think they give different feelings. Parentheses feel like an aside to the audience, like a weaker form of footnotes. I use them a l...
I think the most important thing is to figure out what kind of humor are YOU good at. Lauren Ipsum's and Cody Hess's suggestions are how THEY get people to laugh. Gmoore's suggestion is a good one...
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Uncyclopedia:How_To_Be_Funny_And_Not_Just_Stupid There are some good tips in this link, even if it's slightly skewed towards the format of it's own site, but I'l...
I have the same problem. What I did to handle it was to start writing down an outline or synopsis of the new story ideas as they came to me. This allowed me to get them out of my head and store the...
A) There is no resource in the world that will make you a writer like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, or Isaac Asimov. You are going to be the writer that YOU are going to be. Being inspi...
