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Answer A: Moving away from a gender-based analysis
In psychology, the tendencies you have described are termed internatlizing and externalizing behavior. In extreme cases those tendencies lead to internalizing disorders, which were long thought to be more prevalent among women, and externalizing disorders, some of which still appear to be more preva...
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Question British style guides from the early 20th century?
This is more or less a follow up to a question I had previously asked. Reading British writers from the last 19th century, like Bram Stoker, and the early 20th century, like Bertrand Russell, Winston Churchill, and George Orwell. They were all very economical writers. Is there an early 20th century ...
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Answer A: Larger structure - followup to Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
The misconception at the heart of your question is that there has to be coherence between chapters, similar to the coherence between paragraphs. In technical and academic writing there is indeed coherence, usually, and then the same principles apply for the transition from the last paragraph of the ...
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Answer A: Does my constantly sad character make a terrible main character?
Apparently it will all depend on the kind of book you want to write. Literary fiction is full of difficult characters. I don't think Captain Ahab is very likeable, and yet the book's a classic. But in genre fiction (romance, fantasy, thriller, etc.), readers usually expect a character that they want...
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