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Answer A: Use of real organization in fiction
It is legally unproblematic to use institutions that are of a quasi-timeless nature such as the catholic church, the United States, or the egyptian pyramids. If you have "a president of the USA" in your novel, this person will be understood to be a fictional president and not the current one (unless...
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Answer A: How to cite annotation in an annotated copy of Shakespeare's Othello
When you cite from the Bible, Shakespeare, Homer, and similar texts, which are labelled by book and verse or section or chapter and these labels (and the text itself) remain the same across different editions of the text, you cite these texts by giving the name of the text and the section number (e.g...
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Answer A: What can I do if I hate my own protagonist?
It seems to me that you might have begun to over-construct your characters (and maybe other parts of your narrative as well). Many aspiring writers look for rules and guidelines in how-to books or on the internet and attempt to apply those principles in a very rational manner. As a consequence, they...
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Answer A: Are all writers, readers?
No. We always think of authors and other artists as people who were excited by some media experience (e.g. reading books, viewing movies, or playing computer games) and began a career in their medium because of their love for it. But enthusiasm for a medium is not the only motivation to write or ma...
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