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Real Buddhist meditations are probably public domain (not copyrighted, or in current USA law copyright lasts for the lifetime of the author plus 70 years). Presumably they are very old meditations...
what are the important elements to consider, and how long should the description be, before getting on with the narration? The most important element to consider is why the reader is reading i...
I've always had good experiences with my Pilot Capless as something of an infrequent user (since I only use my fountain pens for pleasure writing rather than work) I've often gone several weeks wit...
I'm a discovery writer. I provide a lot of detail on beginning a story as a discovery writer, in this answer. When I began I tried to be a plotter, but it didn't work; my creativity was used up in...
If you're internally consistent this can work. A variety of books are first person, or a third person style that shows the character's thoughts enough that it has the intimacy of first person, but...
One doesn't "decide" to be a plotter or a discovery-writer ("pantser" is not considered a polite term in writing circles). One is one or the other, or somewhere on the scale between the two. Some ...
Jane popped the stone in her hand. First, I think you know that isn't the right word, the image is like popping a balloon. Second, don't tell us, just show us, describe the scene, and don't w...
I am going for a frame challenge. While scanning the question all that I remembered was a big bag of buzz-words, starting with degenerate, barbarians, nomadic, Indo-Iranians, viruses, and further f...
NaNo editor Strengths: It handles text files. It runs natively in Linux, and it has a prettier interface compared to vim. It can also do spell checking after installing 'spell'. It has a GNU ...
Unless you are writing a police report or a scientific article, where telling the facts is of paramount importance, I fail to see the benefit or purpose of such a description. If the weighting of ...
In my experience hibernation doesn't help, unless you are so into a story that you're suffering from burnout. Nine times out of ten, if I leave a story unfinished, it will remain that way. In you...
you are weakening your argument by presenting the extreme edge of the phenomenon you wish to engage with rather than its mainstream. That can be true, at one extreme (IRL) people get out and p...
Creating a branch is the easy part To create a branch, as you read the book take note of every choice the character makes. Map those out - what that choice leads to, what does that in turn lead to...
You needn't reveal that the character has the ability, but you need to reveal the fact that the ability exists. Otherwise, indeed, this is a Deus ex Machina. How you reveal the existence of the ab...
As Galastel says, you have to talk about it. I do that with legends; and make sure my hero believes those legends maybe were real, but probably exaggerated, and certainly the descriptions have pro...
That formation is called an arch, and it connects what may soon become a stack to the main coastline. The key points of both archs and stacks is that they form by erosion. In contrast, a peninsula...
Avoid the imputation of naiveté. In the real world, of course, all most all people hold their beliefs reflexively and naively. Most atheists have not thought through or are even aware of the epist...
You don't need to describe the character of the father before hand. You could do that, but that would be irrelevant. In fact the conflict is between the daughter and the killer. In fact, you have...
Before you write a reference: check whether their data has a specific licence that would require a specific type of reference (e.g. copying part of the licence for derivative work). check whether...
If the authors of the website produced the data, then cite them like you would the authors of a work published on paper. If the website is a journal, it will have a name that you can also use in t...
If their data is used in your work, you have to reference them. This is important for several reasons: It shows that you didn't just make up that data on the spot. It doesn't give the false impre...
Use Scrivener. My answer here is heavily adapted from my answer to a different question, but I think it will be helpful to you: Scrivener is a tremendously flexible writing program. You can creat...
I would write it G, but you could write it Gi or Gee, if you like either of those better. This may be a "matter of opinion" question. In comments, there is a complaint "Gi" could be pronounced wit...
The reader only needs to be told how "G" sounds once. You can put the explanation in-story, e.g. the character says or thinks 'I hate it when Bob calls me G, I can just hear him thinking "Gee whiz"...
You need a prop. I will explain! Somebody fighting a losing argument is typically fighting because the consequences for them of losing the argument is giving up something valuable or dear to them,...
