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One way to depict a brilliant military mind is to find a successful battle or campaign in history which starts from similar conditions to the type of starting conditions you want at the start of th...
As an author, you have a couple of superpowers which you can bestow upon your characters: Super perception. You know every detail in your story, including those a normal person wouldn't even noti...
Usually, that is left for the imagination of the reader. You might want to avoid misspelling on purpose. You can swap the order of the speech and its description. Doing this you can prime the reade...
Purely as a reader, I think your second, misspelled version is much better. It's as brief and as precise as possible. It's not unusual for dialogue to be improperly spelled to represent accents or ...
The best bet you have is looking directly at the source material - e.g., real felines fighting. Of course it would help narrowing down to one species (the domestic cat is very different, in terms o...
There is nothing in your example snippet that made Paul or Mike the Point of View character. Sure there are some confusingly worded sentences, but you can easily solve that by zooming out to eithe...
I'd say no, it is not clear. Just include a tag. He heard Mike sigh. "I'm sorry," Mike said. "Things ...
The services exist, google "critique service" (without the quotes). Ignore the "copyedit" services (if that is all they do), they are just checking spelling and grammar and formatting. Actual cri...
I've never used any online service for reviewing, editing, and/or critique. I always get it from peers and mentors. There are some advantages to having your writing reviewed online, like speed an...
Assuming you're not following any specific style manual, citations can go pretty much anywhere except for the abstract and the conclusions/final statements. The idea is that the abstract should b...
It largely depends on the style you're writing your paper in, but typically you would include a separate page called works Cited that will give the full citation of all works used and is arranged a...
I would also suggest the spelling change so that the first line is "Lookin' and lookin'..." as that is closer to how the word would be pronounced in a sing-song quality. If the speaker is the vill...
If you want to place particular emphasis on a word in a piece of dialogue, you can use italics: "Looking and looking... in all the wrong places." There is also a convention - though admittedl...
Great advises were given here and I cannot add to it more, but I still do have some minor things which might help you. But be aware, because they work for me, it does not mean they will work for yo...
Assuming you're not limited to US-ASCII in notation, I think the best approach would be to find bracket characters or some other notation that won't conflict with any characters that will need to b...
At my work I have it usually easy. I have visual media to represent strong emotions, but we can extrapolate. First ask yourself what is the consequence of suppressed strong emotion for longer peri...
A user guide is an important result related to your final product and should be treated as such. If the software that is being detailed is in development you you obviously can't know everything tha...
Usually when someone says that they have a lot of ideas, they mean that they have a lot of plot ideas. The problem is, they don't understand the difference between a plot idea and a story idea. Gia...
Alternatively, if you have a server available, with PHP, you can install COPS (https://github.com/seblucas/cops/releases) on the server, and use rsync to regularly copy your entire Calibre director...
A big part of the marketing advantage that publishers have is that they have access to this kind of information. This is a problem even for authors going the traditional route, because they are exp...
Text to speech is an ability of some computing devices to run a special program that will "speak aloud" a given text to you. That is, they process the text, and generate the sounds that resembles ...
There was a study1 done by Laurina Zhang about the effects of DRM on music sales. In her conclusion1 she states: My analysis in this paper, based on a large representative sample of albums fr...
As the author of 5 tech books (all available in ebook format and published by O'Reilly Media), I can tell you that the O'Reilly party line is essentially that "DRM logic is flawed". We're in a tran...
I've seen this problem even on desktop - particularly if a blog with some code has a relatively narrow center section due to wasted space on the left and right (typically with stuff on the left and...
I am a bibliophil. I can easily spend a couple hundred dollars in a book store, and have done so many times. I often buy books online that I can not find locally, again hundreds of dollars. I also ...
