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I agree with Mark Baker, and Chris Sunami. It sounds like a scam. We have an equivalent thing in Academia, unfortunately it IS common for scientific journals to charge authors for publication, and...
I’m not disagreeing with any of the other answers, money either goes one way (from publisher to author) or it is a scam, but I do want to address one point: these being startups. That may seem to ...
It depends what your goal is. If you want to build a readership and make money from your writing, then paying anyone to publish you is not a good idea. If a so-called publisher makes money by charg...
I would definitely not recommend using Word for this. It is just not what it was designed to do. There are multiple documentation systems that have been developed specifically for the purpose of ...
(This originally started out as a comment on Glastel's answer, about a fourth explanation, but I decided to expand it into a full answer) Write part of the end of the book, at the start of the pro...
You need to be precise, clear and uncomplicated. When writing fiction, you want your text to have all the depths and layers you can add to it without forcing your reader to stop and think too much...
Your rules might be too limiting, given how few vowels English has, even after you remember y is a semivowel. Obviously "use consonants instead" would require a huge rewrite, even if you can tweak ...
Precision is not the opposite of simplicity or clarity. As you mentioned, Hemmingway is known for his amazing precision, for spending a long time on single sentences. I read The Old Man and The Se...
What is the point of the scene? High stakes games can happen in an extremely relaxed atmosphere if all the players are emotionally stable, understand poker and what to expect from it, and are prop...
You've dug yourself a hole there with the two-syllables-starting-with-vowel rule. The main trick used in many places for distinguishable character names is to have them start with different sounds...
You could try campfire, it's marketed as a worldbuilding and planning tool. I've also looked at Scrivener, which may have a more familiar interface to that of PowerPoint. WorldAnvil is anothe...
Teachers and professors often pick up the lingo of their students; part of being a good teacher is being able to understand their speech and slang. Not only to communicate with them, but to pick up...
There's a lot to unpack here, at least if someone like me tries to post an answer, because I only half-agree with aims such as those of the Hemingway app. Also, some of what you say brings in addit...
Behold! The Mighty Ellipses! The demon...she? he?...gestured towards the supply wagons. Ultimately, it's a matter of personal style. Dashes, parentheses, ellipses are all correct. Part of ...
I am reminded of a recent question about C.S. Lewis' and E.B. White's use of vocabulary. The answer I gave there touches on this question as well. One feature of the English vocabulary is that on ...
Do you know why we have over a million words in the english language? They exist so that they can be used. Each word is unique in its own way. every word has its place in the English language ...
According to quora: The letters of the alphabet that are used least frequently in the English language are Q, J, Z and X. Each of these letters is used in less than one percent of English v...
Yes, you can. And many authors do. But, as others have pointed out, it's something you need to tread carefully with. My novel has a prologue (and an epilogue). I had it in my head since I conce...
This is a big subject that probably can't be answered in a brief post, but some thoughts that come to mind: Give objective facts, not subjective evaluations. For example, "I was valedictorian", ...
I guess this is more of a psychology question; but -- as a fiction writer -- you can try writing about a fictional character. Change your name! It is a trick to distance yourself from the work; wr...
I love writing excuses and highly recommend listening. It has great tips, great advice, and a peak into the world of professional writing for those of us that haven't quite made it there yet. B...
Here's one I found on a list of tips for podcasting educators (sorry I can't find the link) -- Google Voice -- Basically call your own GoogleVoice number, and play a few minutes of your podcast int...
Another approach, from music: perhaps the Repeat Sign from music can be an inspiration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeat_sign My transcribed knitting patterns look like this: Sl1, k1, YO...
I think that in this case you may want to keep both ways open. Diagrams are usually allright in academic and technical contexts, but you mentioned this is a college assessment and your ability to...
Before we begin, I'm terribly sorry that this post is massively incoherent, badly formatted and error-ridden, It's very late. I'll try to fix it somewhere next week. You can reasonably skip to "Sum...
