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Sexism, like racism, is about the larger constructs of power and not about individual feelings towards one category of people. A man can be sexist towards women but a woman can not be sexist towar...
All writing has political elements to it, whether you like it or not. Your question is a great demonstration of this. Some people consider LGBTQ people to inherently be (a) extremely rare, and (b)...
I like to equate skin tones with food or natural objects. Caramel, chocolate, cream, sand, etc. Eye and hair color work well this way too. There are so many beautiful shades of skin it is a sham...
To create effective signage or instructions, always start with correct language. I am answering for English language works. There will be some differences in other languages. In your case, you o...
Between the brief ordered spreadsheets @Liquid suggests and the detailed but time-consuming wiki you suggest, there is a third way: keep notes of what you need in a semi-organised way that is conve...
Like with so many other issues of style, it depends on your audience. For a school essay, your audience is your teacher. So write the essay your teacher wants, no matter if it's okay to do it ano...
Many lyrics work with a variety of melodies because the underlying structure of the set of melodies is similar. My synagogue just had a "Broadway" bar mitzvah where the young man set our tradition...
+1 DPT, +1JBiggs. Remember battles are local and personal. What I mean is that in a fight, there is no big picture, there is your picture, a tight focus, the people around you, the immediate enemy ...
Don't avoid entire groups of people because you don't know how to write them. Learn how to write them. It's part of becoming a writer. You must learn how to get inside the heads of people who ar...
There are two easy ways to handle this, depending on whether you want the readers to understand what is being said, or not. In truth, whether you want the readers to understand or not is the only i...
This is fiction, and a cartoon for kids, no less. And the point is to meet interesting people, I don't think what is "interesting" has to be about racism, oppression, or any social aspect of their ...
Both Magic and Science provide constraints. I think one problem with mixing magic and science fiction is that science fiction readers prefer some whiff of plausibility in however science is extend...
Years ago I found myself looking at the arrow that was to strike my face. Today I can still recall the chilling horror of the nearly instantaneous realization that it could go through my eye socket...
Easier said than done. I tried Goodreads. The good news is it allows you to search by genre. Not just fiction but also type of fiction, if you want. And by title. But you can not set it to jus...
Ask the newspaper. They will know this stuff backwards and forwards. If you put the lyrics into a program to hand out at a memorial service or other event, you're good. If you put the lyrics (we...
You can treat the light beam as a geometrical object, as you have started to do in your explanation. You could go with something of the like "Imagine that every point on the surface of the sheet ...
For me, a short story is a story. It follows the three-act structure, but it requires some inventiveness to compress that into a short space; in some cases to a line or two. I don't care about met...
I'd go with inconsistency; to be even more specific, I'd say the worldbuilding is not consistent or poor. I second J.G. in saying that you're interested in inconguities at large.
First of all, congratulations! If your publisher says it's up to you, then they're not seeing any red flags that would make a pen name advisable. Lots of adults write for both children and adul...
You don't have to skip to the end. Just don't get repetitive. Skip over uneventful periods of time. Look for (I mean make up) the events, the things that have meaning in the course of the fight, in...
This answer covers a single work like a paper well, and what it says applies to larger works too. Correctness and clarity are the most important factors in any technical work. For larger works, su...
Do the particular details of the boxing match matter to the story? What details matter? Why do they matter? Surely not every single punch and block is of utmost importance? If I were describing a ...
It's okay if your noble characters are so well mannered to avoid judging people bu their looks. Yet, this doesn't mean you can't describe the ugly bits. First of all, as you mentioned: They w...
The narrator can describe only beauty, but that doesn't mean you can't have a mean and petty character that (in dialogue or perhaps thought) describes people in ugly terms. This doesn't have to be...
Full names and arbitrary names are good solutions to the question you asked. To address the question behind the one you asked -- the implicit "superiority" in ordering -- write examples that don't ...
