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[Note: I tried to post this as comment, but for some reason it didn't work] I guess it's because the URL of QPixel has changed; probably the code interfacing to Stack Exchange somewhere contains a...
Perhaps if you need a term, try "magical realism"? 98% like our world, but that little difference is what makes it fantasy... whether it's if subways will sometimes take you sideways to a dif...
From my understanding, the way I've done things here is okay. The CC BY-SA license essentially says that you must attribute licensed work in a [reasonable] manner specified by the licensor. The li...
Footnotes informing a reader of which previous work an event occurred in are ubiquitous in comic books, but I've never heard of them being done in a novel before, nor would I really recommend it. T...
So this is kinda tricky. On one hand: what you said. I don't believe it's a breach of the license, because an attribution necessarily involves citing the author's name (or username, in this case) ...
It might be useful to compare this to what doctors do. Doctors first establish symptoms. These are the facts of the case. Notice that it is possible to miss or discount a symptom. The data being ga...
I recently re-read Mistborn in preparation to record a bookclub podcast on the novel. Imagine my surprise to discover a new viewpoint, from a character I had never met, named Walin, in the Pits of...
Academic writing is supposed to be formal, but there can be big differences between different fields of academic writing. A technical field like Computer Science will often focus on being concise a...
Have you ever done a group project in school, university or at your work place? Making sure that everyone is exactly on the same page regarding what you are doing and how you are supposed to do tha...
This is simply backstory, so the rules of backstory apply. Backstory should only be given when the reader wants to know the backstory. Backstory slows the forward momentum of the plot, so it should...
You can't. You can't describe pain. You can't describe what things taste like. You can't describe much at all about our physical sensations of the world. Language just does not seem to work like th...
This was originally intended as comment on ArtOfCode's answer, but got too long for that. Listing a name on the site's Users page IMHO very clearly claims that person is a user of the site. Note t...
Metaphors must be apt. They must make the reader's experience of the scene they are reading more vivid. The problem with many metaphors, particularly those created by inexperienced writers, and mos...
I have never tried for a group, for some of the "downside" reasons DPT outlined. I have found readers that enjoy my work, and aren't writers but avid fiction consumers. My rule for critique is basi...
I believe the most interesting (and most efficient) way to learning a new language is to avoid translating to the readers first language (I'll assume English) as much as possible. Avoid: Written...
What are we but a temporary compound in the universe?
The distance of eternity is endless, imagine yourself next to it.
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Always a good idea to state major details once, and never again. How you are going to present the details is up to you. Which characters matter more? Which ones are not a major part of the plan? Wh...
The way you make a character sound condescending it to have them say condescending things. That's it. That's the whole of the recipe. But I suppose you knew that. I suppose you must have tried tha...
Most online publishers have a method to allow for updates to published ebooks. The user generally is given way to identify that a book has an update, then the user is given the option to re-downloa...
I may be wrong, but when I saw this I immediately thought of Python's range, where the number used is the stop number - i.e., stop before you get to that number. That also fits well with the way lo...
You can have it permanently published for free at Smashwords. Amazon used to do price matching, and this used to be the way to publish your book for free at Amazon. I am not sure if Amazon is st...
"Have my money, donkey?" said man on the other side of phone with hostility in his rough voice "I promise I will get the dosh by the midnight," said John into the phone nervously, drop of sweat ru...
Calibre offers .pdb as both input and output file types. This should meet your requirements, for converting from .epub to .pdb.
