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I think this is a matter of opinion; but you come close with In fact, not every person using the expression would be aware of its provenance. It becomes an "expression" or "colloquialism" when it ...
In novels you can parse sarcasm because you know the characters, specifically you know what they know and how they think, so you know the difference between a serious suggestion and a flip suggesti...
Sarcasm is tricky. You correctly state that the written word is a poor medium for sarcasm (and surely you can't put your retorts betwen tags, unless if you hope to become a meme on some obscure in...
If you are having trouble outlining, or trouble following or completing a story from an outline that you wrote, you should try discovery writing. I am a discovery writer, and I finish books. In Th...
I don't see why not. If they were objects unique to a particular movie setting, like the lightsabers in Star Wars, you'd raise a few eyebrows at least, but these are literally just cups. You may as...
I am not a lawyer, so all of this is a layman opinion. If the design on the cups is something done by the set designers or artists employed by the movie, then they own the copyright on that design,...
I agree that the right-justified text blocks are ugly as heck. I'd recommend italics for non-English and a non-quotation punctuation mark for telepathic dialogue. Mostly it's a matter of deciding w...
The acceptability of the use of footnotes varies a lot. 6-7 lines would be huge in many works but is nothing when compared to others. If it doesn't belong inside the text, and endnotes aren't a p...
As of today, it cannot be done in one pass from within Scrivener. I did spend a good amount of time researching this, and I discovered that Scrivener does not support GNU extensions in regex. On t...
+1 user37826, that is my answer. I understand you are showing the +/- in the superscript and subscript, respectively, but I don't like this format at all; for one it doesn't give the confidence lev...
I think it is important to write what your intended readers will easily understand. If you are a native speaker and inclined toward English-sounding words; they are probably inclined to understand ...
Seems totally fine to me. However, what really matters is your actual audience. This sounds like a case where maybe the best approach is to go ahead, write what seems best to you, without worrying ...
Graphics and artwork get a bad rap in essays and similar length nonfiction because so many authors and editors make stupid decisions. How many stock photos of beautiful young people in posed actio...
Use an outline or old updates as a template Basically, you're taking minutes. What happened, who did it, and the rough order it happened in (with some grouping by category). Taking minutes from ...
Github or similar is a good choice I can't say I have used it personally for this type of work, however as a software engineer by day it is my collaboration tool of choice for most things. Unl...
The answer is two fold: Ask your teacher. Google it. I can't ask your teacher for you, but I did a quick Google search. Since you added the mla tag, I assume that's the format required. So he...
What keeps me motivated is I like writing for its own sake, it is my hobby, it can make me laugh, it makes me feel good to have figured things out, and for crafting a piece of art. Like other peopl...
I think this is dependent on the convention in the country or location where you are publishing. In the U.S., it's double quotes, but in Britain, it's often single quotes. I believe France and Ital...
There are two other common options. Italics. Murder, she said. And nothing at all. Murder, she said. Or more likely set up as narration. She said murder. I prefer anything to the...
I don't believe there is any punctuation to accomplish what you want. I have seen it done as you have done it, but IMO this is effective but something that should be used very rarely; it gets tirin...
Ah yes, IPA! International Phonetic Alphabet -- I had a drama teacher who had us learn to read it, (and I used to use a bastardized version of it for keeping notes), but she claimed that it could b...
I've seen dashes used for this ("Ye-s"), but I wouldn't really recommend it. For readability, using repeated vowels sounds like the better, safer option. There's no need for the reader to guess wha...
Your example doesn't look ugly, it's just something that ought to be saved for dialogue. I wouldn't use it in non-fiction, for example. Another method is to italicize the word. This example i...
It appears I'm hearing votes for Fiverr (or Amazon Mechanical Turk) - basically paying humans, (using global economy stuff to pay them less than I'd be able to get away with paying local humans, bu...
Prologues are something that need to be handled carefully - otherwise, you may wind up giving too much information about a character/world that the reader doesn't care about yet. If you have a lo...
