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Q&A How can I (or can I?) create a Canva.com cover for a CreateSpace 6"x9" title?

First of all: you can HypnoThyroidWriter.com has an article specifically for this called Journal creation — a marriage of Canva & CreateSpace templates for Word. Apparently the author of that ...

posted 7y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A When blogging recipes, how can I support both readers who want the narrative/journey and ones who want the printer-friendly recipe?

disclaimer: I'm not, in anyway, associated with the printfriendly company. I found the printfriendly plugin pretty useful and easy to implement. It is a small script you can add to your website an...

posted 6y ago by undefined‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Likeable characters with deplorable professions?

To me the answer depends on why was slavery not abolished? If slavery remains in practice because enlightenment failed in America and economic and racist interests won, then (from the perspective ...

posted 7y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is there still a market for solo adventures game books?

Yes - but it's a difficult market and you might want to check out similar genres The traditional book market is likely declining in many aspects, but there are many similar types of media that are...

posted 7y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is a QR card linked to the PDF of a book a good idea?

PDFs use a fixed layout that doesn't scale with the device or window size, so they're not as friendly for smaller screens. Some people do read PDFs on some phones, though -- some screens are prett...

posted 9y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Self-publishing Nonfiction Help Guides on Amazon?

The main benefit is that people see your copyright as legitimate. To be sure, some people take ebooks and copy them and stick them right back on to Amazon under their own name and with all the m...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A The Good, the Bad, and the Semicolon

A semicolon is a complex beast: You don't use it when you want an idea to stand on its own. You use a full stop for that. You don't use it to tie two ideas closely together because if you did, yo...

posted 7y ago by Kevin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Anticlimactic ending as a surprise after climax?

This can work. I'll even give a couple examples of boss fights that pull off this kind of pacing and feel very satisfying. But it's difficult to pull off, and there are a few things you have to get...

posted 6y ago by Kevin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Issue in citing legal cases, APA

I'm specifically trying to cite two documents under United States v. 434 Main Street, Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Namely, this and this. The second is the actual ruling, but the first is a pertinent ...

0 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by genap‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Can we use MadCap Flare with semantic markup?

My team uses MadCap Flare to produce a large body of documentation (thousands of topics). The source is "Flare HTML", HTML with some Flare additions (for variables, admonitions, snippets, and so o...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How can I make the plagiarism detector "Ithenticate" identify "θ-continuous" as a single word?

You can't I looked through the web, searching for information about problems with Ithenticate and symbols or greek letter, and I couldn't find any information about how to change the bahviour of I...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to find different meanings behind metaphors used in speech writing?

I'm looking for ways to discover what others might think when they hear or see a metaphor used in a speech. I tend to think a certain way. I have certain prejudices. I think we all do. If I use a m...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Michael Riley - AKA Gunny‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A What text format is least likely to clash with ebook formats?

TL;DR; In order not to worry about the output, you have to be sure of the input and the translation process into an ebook. The input has to show you everything that is there and hide nothing, and t...

posted 11y ago by Anthon‭

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Q&A How much value do publishers and editors place on informative/educational content in fiction stories?

How much value do publishers and editors place on informative/educational content in fiction stories? No value at all. Consider a Romance; When Harry Met Sally. What did you learn there, that...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Format for electronic download sales: letter sized pdf okay?

I would like to self-publish a book and sell it through Amazon, and also make it available in a variety of electronic formats. I recently bought a book for $35 as an electronic download from the a...

0 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by aparente001‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How do I make sure my audience is aware of subplots?

You need to be very conscious of the difference between history and story. If you have multiple sub plots that are not obvious, there is a good chance that they are more history than story. Histo...

posted 8y ago by Mark Baker‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A A question on the ambiguity of the Alternate History genre

Everything in a story has to matter. If you write alternate history, the alternate has to matter to the story. If you put in a detail that is obviously and deliberately contrary to history (as oppo...

posted 7y ago by Mark Baker‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A A question on the ambiguity of the Alternate History genre

What is your purpose in wanting to do this? If the story is 99% set in the real world, and then you throw in this one paragraph of alternate history, and then the story goes back to the real world...

posted 7y ago by Jay‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Creative license to invent a sibling to a historical figure?

I would advise against it. In a historical novel, you do not want to "tamper" with history. That is, you do not want to create a character close enough to a historical figure to be able to re-write...

posted 7y ago by Tom Au‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Can I say this about real countries in my fiction?

Alternative history is a mainstay of speculative fiction. Redrawing countries' borders is very often a part of that. Sometimes countries that exist in the real world are missing. Sometimes new c...

posted 5y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Non-linear style used by *Arrow*

"In Media Res" (literally "In the Middle of Things) would be a term used for any story that starts at some point in the plot that is not "ab ovo" (Trans: The beginning, Lit: From the Egg) and requ...

posted 5y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is excerpts from an in-universe book, presented between chapters, a good way of handling exposition?

This is not a bad way of handling exposition. I have seen what you describe work, and felt compelled to find it amongst the hundreds of books on my shelf. Thanks for the mindworm. I found a book t...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How do you write a Stack Exchange answer?

In addition to all great answers. Put yourself into the OP's place and instead of just writing series of statements, write sub-questions you think comes to the mind of the average reader of that qu...

posted 7y ago by Honey‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How large should photos on my blog be?

Any online image can be scaled to 100% of the width of the webpage, that means it will always fill the available width, regardless of the actual pixel size. compression is more important than pixe...

posted 6y ago by wetcircuit‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How can my story take place on Earth without referring to our existing cities and countries?

Creating a world is a lot of work. It doesn't matter if your world is a single town over the course of a year or an intercontinental saga over several generations. Either way, you need to map out...

posted 6y ago by Cyn‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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