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Dr. Johnson is supposed to have said that you cannot reproduce the effects of dullness and garrulity without actually being dull and garrulous. Being slightly less 18th century (I'm more of a Victo...
The problem with your names is not that they fail to be distinct, but that they fail to be sticky. The stickiness of a name is a measure of how easily the brain can retain it and assign it to an ob...
I am a "pantser", or as we PREFER to be called, a Discovery Writer. So is Stephen King. I typically begin a story without knowing the ending, or the plot, or all of the characters. What I do have...
I'll also answer the question. There's a common human experience of waiting til the last minute to tackle a job. Students are notorious for waiting until the last minute to turn in term papers, b...
A scribe was allowed 80 characters to write story. This is what he came up with.
No, he said. They're all included. How many? I asked. Turtles all the way down.
John had a short life. Right after he was born, he was running out of characters
(This is a sort of prequel to 2 stories I entered in last year's writing challenges.) Technical Difficulties 0 The ship streaked across the morning sky, spewing smoke. Inside, the pilot clawed at ...
We just got hierarchical tags. A tag can have one or more children, and when you search on a tag you can either search just that tag or also search its children. This gives us another way to orga...
Welcome to the latest Writing Challenge! In line with the previous one, this includes a topic, a prompt, and also a challenge. Topic The topic of this challenge is finding treasure. This mi...
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
Deleting (semi)colons ≠ deleting comma and a conjunction They are close enough. Very close, in fact. As an aside, it's not clear what you hoped to learn from either question. Unless someone p...
We can create Writing Reviews. I think about something that is same as Code Review in Codidact Software Development. I am not a good writer at all. I would be very happy if someone just review my...
I've imported everything on this list at the moment and edited your post to strike through the URLs. Feel free to keep adding to the list - I'll check back in a few days, or you can ping me when th...
I'm honestly inclined to agree that what Writing Codidact needs isn't really another data import. It's to get actual people to come here, read, contribute, and remain. People who have posted on Wr...
I encountered a bug today while writing an answer. If I write my answer, and then put headers in the middle of it using the heading button, my cursor jumps to the end of my answer. So if I went bac...
It strikes me that there was something contrary to the stated aims of Stack Overflow about the accepted answer button. SO set out not to provide an answer to one individual but to create a permanen...
Would content at https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/ be in scope here? I happened by the ebooks.meta and saw this post Are there any members interested in assisting as an official moderator? A few...
We sat underneath our tarp waiting for the rain to let up, having just finished portaging our canoe from one lake to another. We were unsure of whether our climb of Mt. Moran would be possible and ...
This is a draft request, to set a standard for others interested in migrating in scope work from ebooks.stackexchange.com to writing.codidact.com See related Would content at ebooks.se be in scope ...
Strange import artifacts. I was looking at this post recently imported from books.se https://writing.codidact.com/questions/276013 It has several things as answers that are posts from writers.se.
This is...challenging. You see, it's possible that love changes this ex-antagonist into someone else entirely. But is that the story you're telling? I can't tell you how to get around this, becaus...
I think a lot of writers miss out by not giving vim a try. In other questions people make lists of ideal features they'd like, such as linking scenes, better dictionary integration with various se...
Medium divides the wordcount of a post by 275 words per minute. For images they count 12 seconds for the first image, 11 seconds for the second image, and minus an additional second for each subseq...
The easiest way is to have someone say the name while looking at the animal and having a frame in your comic where the animal is the center. If you have an animal that plays the role that cats play...
