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I think it might be confusing if the original Earth ever appears in the story. If the citizens of the new Earth never have any contact with the old earth, it should be OK.
When dealing with company people, I like to use colleague, associate, employee, coworker, etc. When dealing with customers, I like to say, customers, clients, vendors, prospective customer, etc. F...
Talk to the user, rather than about the user. Unless "the User" is someone other than the person reading your work. I think users appreciate it more when it seems like the writer understands thei...
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There are a number of ways I've seen this done. For single word items, I suggest either use no punctuation, or use semi-colons, with a period for the last item. For example: Apples; Pears; Orang...
I like to use periods with full-sentence bullets, but it depends on the house style of wherever you're submitting your writing. My only caveat is that if you have a list where some items are full s...
I think most of the answers here are missing something important. It is not about credibility (Wikipedia is as credible as most sources, which is to say that it contains a certain number of errors ...
I agree with most of the other posts on this topic, but I have a little bit to add: I think the answer will be different depending on whether you're an established, experienced writer having a dry...
In my experience with self-publishing e-books, I have found that a lot of authors will use flash fiction or short stories as freebies to encourage people to buy their longer works. I also know seve...
I'm not familiar with markets that specialize in flash fiction, though these may exist. However, if you feel you've got a worthwhile, marketable story, I think most venues are happy to consider fla...
Not necessarily disagreeing with @Ralph's answer, but if you're interested in genre fiction you might want to search at Ralan's or Duotrope. (For example, Daily SF pays 8c a word for flash.) Many ...
There are very few, if any, paying markets for Flash Fiction. There's not really a large market for readers of flash fiction, so it's not worth the investment for most places to pay for them. A lot...
It depends on what you want to say/imply. "Engulfed" implies the fire completely surrounded him. "Jumped on" is an odd one, because it implies that it only affected a particular part of his body....
I use a Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite2. Though it's not cheap, I have many reasons why: Small: it's half the size of a piece of 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper Fewer Keys: they've "hidden" nearly half of...
I prefer a buckling-spring keyboard like the old IBM Model M or the ones made by Clicky Keyboards. I only wish I could find that feature in a more ergonomic layout. Buckling-spring keys provide b...
Without going back to an outline, you could do the following: Print your draft on paper. Take some fluoresecent colored pens and mark all the words that are specific to your paper. Not words lik...
All of the answers to date are good. You may also need to review and change your original outline and your train of thought. Its possible that you may simply be attempting to put a quantity of idea...
This ebay link might get you started. With ubiquitous cheap computing power, I bet some of the older stuff can be had really cheap, so long as the owners don't have unrealistic expectations about w...
You are using adverbs and to tell us how the characters are acting and feeling. Instead consider showing us their body language. Help me hear them speak. Let me see for myself that Luna is nervo...
Use four a.m. (or just four as it becomes clear the scene is at night). (Also, most clocks don't strike differently for a.m. versus p.m.) A young mental health professional -- Toss it and introduc...
Imagine the situation: You pedal uphill, your muscles are aching, your face is a grimace of pain. There is resistance (called gravity) which does not want that you reach the top of the hill. Where...
I think you could also make it more immediate and informal by getting rid of "decade" - "It took me ten years to write this script, and now..." The length of time and the role of expectation also...
Scrivener is available for Mac or Windows, but not all timeline software is cross-platform. Which platform are you using? If on the Mac, try StoryMill, which has a dedicated timeline function. On...
Yes. Write the summary. Write an outline. Write it on notecards so you can rearrange things and reconnect elements in different ways. Use string. Write up briefs of your characters. Know their...
I think you are confused about "originality". Every super-spy movie is "original", but the plot is the same. Nearly every romantic comedy is original, but the plot is pretty formulaic. What is ori...
