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Use inner dialogue to create tension. Watching a sporting event as a fan always includes constant, intense inner dialogue (and some not so inner dialogue). There is no need to change POV. That c...
Assuming she survives (or in some cases even if she doesn't depending on how the story is structured) don't forget that you can always do the short version (which I agree with the others would most...
I seldom describe my characters to the readers; other than traits that are important to the plot, or are already obvious by the plot. Even then, I strive to have other characters make comments on t...
If you are writing a paper in a context where the type of shortening in A is a recognized device for the kind of contrast you use in B, then you can use it. Personally, I've never seen anything li...
If you're certain you want to shorten the sentence in that way, the word 'respectively' would be be a very useful tool for clarifying what grammatical role is being played by each of the bracketed ...
I am a (part-time) composer, and I have written the music for songs using all kinds of lyrics, written any time from Chaucer to the present day. I would say that if you don't have any practical mu...
Two blank lines - be consistent! You asked the same question on some other, more specialised, sites, so I am looking through them and some others to consolidate the knowledge here for future reade...
Wow, what a loaded question! I'll try to answer without stepping on any toes. Getting at what makes a person "male" or makes a person "female" is something philosophers and psychologists have b...
I kind of feel bad writing an answer since everything I really want to say has already been said here. But it has been said by several different people in multiple answers and comments. So I kind o...
You use @media rules in your CSS style sheets to define which html tags you want to print and which are only visible on screen. E.g. @media print { .stuff-you-don't-want-to-print { dis...
CSS supports media queries since Level 2, Revision 1. That's from way back in 2011, so any modern web browser should support it. If you're able to specify custom CSS, and apply custom CSS classes ...
You can put your content into a <div id="recipeXYZ"> nested normally within your blog post. Then you can load the content to a print page dynamically. Now you can print from your original pag...
WordPress Answer If you're using WordPress, I've got really good news for you. The example that you provided is using a WordPress plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easyrecipe/ Adding a rec...
In a lot of ways, quests on online games like RuneScape are very much like recipes. I think you could take a page out of their book. Compare the following two pages: https://oldschool.runescape.wi...
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...
I wouldn't really consider a story science fiction if the science and technology in the story exists entirely within the confines of reality today. For it to count, some aspect of the technology in...
Bear in mind that languages do not have all names sounding the same. If you take my paternal grandfather's name Hyhory and his sons, Isydore, Anton and Kassian you will note considerable variation ...
Well, you can take inspiration from pictures of texts that are posted all the time. Like this: But basically, online, people are accustomed to reading text messages in this format. Doing this i...
Firstly don't get too hung up on the genre - it's a very fluid concept that doesn't have to be anywhere near as strict as you are imagining. Write the story and let it be what it is - if after wr...
Trying to explain a game that not every reader is knowledgeable about or interested in is rather hard. If you don't want to scare off your readers or bore them, one solution is to completely ignore...
Your student worker sounds like a valuable assistant. But he is not a translator. Even if he were doing actual translation work, a co-translator indicates someone doing work at the same level tha...
I feel that Cyn and Sara Costa have explained how to avoid using stereotypes in the design of your story. My answer is to explore how to avoid using stereotypes in your prose itself: Don't tell me...
Kill one off (the other can fall in love with the ghost) Show one dying alone in the future and set up the whole story as a flashback Put them on impossibly different locations (planets) or time (...
One possible answer might be to forge through the question immediately with a conclusion, so that you can redress the question later, unexpectedly. That is, don't skirt around the issue - plow thro...
Jokes are just humor where you provide both the set-up and the punch-line yourself. A stand-up comedian talking to a room full of people has to reel off jokes one after the other, as they have no ...
