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Q&A Public domain search tools/websites

The internet archive https://archive.org/ lists both works they host as well as works in other libraries. While most (all?) of the ebook are available without cost the majority are public domain w...

posted 11y ago by James Jenkins‭  ·  last activity 11y ago by James Jenkins‭

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Q&A How to keep track of worthwhile snippets from discovery writing, which don't work where they were first written?

Stick them in a file called Snippets. This has one function and one function only: to make it easier to excise all the stuff that does not belong in your story. Tell yourself that this is good stuf...

posted 4y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Q&A Are there any ebook search engines?

Calibre is a downloadable (free, donations accepted) application that will allow you to search over multiple stores, for content. Using the get books function, to provide information like comparati...

posted 11y ago by James Jenkins‭

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Q&A Anonymous publishing

If your work is going to be successful enough to make it cost effective to set up all the legal niceties of staying hidden. There is no possible way to guarantee you will keep your anonymity. The...

posted 11y ago by James Jenkins‭

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Q&A Is sharing prior research does more harm than good, in general, in Q&A sites?

I think that prior research might not be bad if the OP: Describes a problem (in understanding or with material) without asking a question in heading (H1) Asks "how would you solve that problem" i...

posted 5y ago by deleted user

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Q&A How do you explain the details of something technical to a non-technical audience?

If you do not want to disappoint your readers with the conclusive paragraph that leaves no lasting impression, order dissertation conclusion writing helpdissertation conclusion writing help from ou...

posted 5y ago by ErickNorthman‭

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Q&A What should come first—characters or plot?

I have never written fiction, so I can answer only by analogy with writing non-fiction. I've had extensive experience in writing about technical subjects for a mostly non-technical public policy o...

posted 5y ago by ab2‭

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Q&A Transitional sections

How does that travel change your characters? The iron law is that every scene should leave your characters in a different state from when they began, or, at very least, leave the reader with a diff...

posted 5y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Q&A mice don't tap and tablet-users don't click: what word can I use for all audiences instead?

Click is really the correct term. I know it is a made-up action description for a mouse or trackball. It requires on-the-fly mental replacement with tap when used with a touch-screen (phone, tablet...

posted 5y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 5y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Is there any popular wisdom on the word "seem"?

Many people have a personal animus against particular words. "Very" is a very common target. (See what I did there?) Certain words just seem inadequate to their task, flabby, somehow, or inapt. I...

posted 5y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Q&A Are speaker tags always necessary when multiple people are in the conversation?

Sometimes it doesn't matter who said what. In your example, where everyone has the same goals and is working together, it seems fine to leave most or all of them out -- the focus here is more on t...

posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Are speaker tags always necessary when multiple people are in the conversation?

Essentially, you do need a speech tag if the reader can easily tell who is speaking. Under what conditions can the reader easily tell who is speaking: There are only two people in the conversatio...

posted 5y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Q&A What are some ways to encourage team members to contribute and maintain a centralized wiki?

How do I encourage a community mindset ... not just viewed as "Sigma's project" You don't. This is your manager's job. Talk to them. Make some suggestions. But in the end, this is their call, ...

posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Text Editors. Suggesting & Tracking Changes to Plain-Text Documents

If it is about text changes, I'd use diff files (in particular the “unified diff” format which also many version control systems use), with a caveat mentioned below. You can create the diff file by...

posted 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A Need basic tools and ways to practice and polish my writing skills

I agree with Lundin. My English isn’t very good; that's why I mostly write in my own language. And, I rarely write in English just to improve my English mistakes all the time I do. I started read...

posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by tripleee‭

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Q&A Will it help you to get published if you have a lot of followers of your writing?

Having a lot of followers doesn't mean anything to a publisher if your book isn't commercial to warrant them to invest money into your book on advertising, public relations, promoters, agents, publ...

posted 3y ago by desbest‭  ·  edited 3y ago by desbest‭

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Q&A What is the Current State-of-the-Art / Any Successful Experiements with EPUB Format?

I experimented a bit this week with hand-made epubs. The following is supported in Apple iBook reader. Haven't checked others -- SELECT tag inputs SCRIPT tags functions within scripts events...

posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A singular or plural for index entries

Thanks for the answer uno online

posted 1y ago by Herem1956‭

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Q&A How do we prevent Madcap Flare from injecting non-breaking spaces in our documentation?

I found a post on https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/smash kartsviewtopic.php?t=28852 that suggests using the non-breaking space character (CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE) instead of the non-breaking space key bi...

posted 1y ago by bonniecunningham‭

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Q&A Changing a story's title to hint at story's meaning

I wrote a short story here http://zecountess.deviantart.com/art/Mirrors-440990952 uno online whose ending explains everything that is narrated before. The feedback I got from my readers is var...

posted 1y ago by ireneparsons‭

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Q&A Do readers primarily identify with or judge heroes in a novel?

From my perspective as a reader I'd say I am more on the "over the shoulder looking" side. If there is only one protagonist in the story, this is easy (e.g. Indiana Jones). If there are two or more...

posted 8mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Antares‭

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Q&A Choosing between your Mother Tongue and another language

I would apply two points of view: Project management / Energy management Your ultimate goal is to publish your work. The best way to publish is to finish your work. What is the best way to fi...

posted 8mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Antares‭

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Meta Bug - Unable to Import Content

I'm having trouble trying to claim my content. If I go to "Edit Profile", click "Authenticate", and sign in to SE, I get: redirect_uri is not under the registered domain for this application I ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Evil Sparrow‭  ·  edited 5y ago by System‭

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Meta Is sharing prior research does more harm than good, in general, in Q&A sites?

Some Q&A websites such as StackExchange require from people asking questions to share "minimal prior research" that they had done to try to answer their question themselves (and often also juxt...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Q&A Is it a copyright violation to have the character share some characteristics with a known character?

A useful way to think about this is, every story you write is set in a world of your own invention, that sits in some relationship to the real world that we live in. The real world that we live in ...

posted 5y ago by Mark Baker‭

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