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I received a response from Flare's technical support. There was a bug in Flare's git integration in some older versions (at least 2019r2; not sure how much farther back). This bug was fixed in Fl...
Perhaps you could use a different font for his dialogue. E.g. in "Asterix and the Goths", the Goth language is set in fraktur font. This would serve as a constant reminder of his weird accent; but...
Tell us why you would be a good leader Typical interview question, they are hoping that you will say certain things they are looking for... but what those are will be different from case to ca...
Writing positively about yourself can be hard. It feels like bragging, which feels rude. What I've found helps is to frame it as a specific marketing project. It's not that I would go around boa...
Science fiction can use garden path sentences to set up a situation that defies the reader's expectations. They can set up what appears to be ordinary life but turns out not to be or present what s...
This is a problem that needs no solution. People know how to skip over quotations and recaps. Indeed, people usually skip over quotations and recaps and only go back to look at them if they find th...
EPub 3 has some interesting additions to the format, but most readers don't handle it yet (especially e-ink). And some glaring issues remain. For example, ePub really needs a way to mark an image ...
A lot of the advice here suggests that for day to day stuff, you use a social platform. I'm not sure that I agree. There's a lot of good in owning your own blog, even if it is for mundane life upda...
I have two suggestions: Classical approach by chapter: First chapter is an exhibition or prelude from the villain's POV. Where the MC maybe has a role in it, so the reader is introduced to him...
Bug Report - Missing Users I've noticed that some users, like Thomo and Lauren Ipsum, who have made accounts here (because their profiles don't say they are ported over, just that they haven't wr...
As far as I can tell, there is no way to explain the edit you do. There is no field to enter one. Also, in my latest edit, I tried to supply one as HTML comment in my post, but in the edit histor...
It took me quite a while to discover how to see what was changed in an edit. Some visual clue on how to get it would be a good idea, I think.
I attempted a password recovery, but it does not seem to work. The error message was: The server encountered a configuration or processing error and was unable to complete your request. Please tr...
The "Ask!" button at the top of the page - when you're browsing Meta questions, you could easily think it means "Ask on Meta". Particularly if you're used to the SE format. But it doesn't - it mean...
When trying to use here the same avatar I used to have on SE, I got the following error message: 413 Request Entity Too Large I can only assume that SE does an auto-resize, which we don't yet hav...
Out of curiosity I clicked the "delete" link on one of my answers and the alert box that pops up asks whether I want to delete this "question", whereas it should ask whether I want to delete this "...
One of our community members, Paulster2, has created some ads and submitted them on SE sites where we've advertised in the past. These are "community promotion" ads, meaning the SE communities vot...
My approach to that is, for letters to the POV character, do not forget that you have a human reading. Mechanically, I indent the letter like a quote. (Say your normal margins are 1-inch left, 1-i...
There is a formula! Mechanically, stakes are rather straightforward; The protagonist has a goal. The antagonist (or antagonistic force) is doing something that gets in the way of said goal. In th...
What you describe is mainstream historical fiction. There is significant piece of the historical fiction market that seems to value the historical accuracy not only of period details but of events ...
Human beings are pretty simple creatures are heart. We are formed by evolution to pair up and reproduce. The forming of romantic bonds is therefore central to our lives and central to our stories. ...
One way to model the role of structure in storytelling is to think of "layers". For example, at some very-high-detail layers (which I would call the lowest layers) a story is made up of a sequence ...
How can a creation of your mind (a character) do something that you don't imagine? Implications. I will explain! What I imagine when designing my characters is scenes, things they have done in t...
A core principle with citation is: if you say it's from source X, it must be exactly what's in source X. Not a summary. Not a translation. Not a refactoring. By citing a source you are invoking...
Awesome work, Paulster2! I upvoted on Writing and Worldbuilding, because I don't belong to the other sites. You might also consider one on History, since that's a place where people writing histo...
