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Answer A: Do you indent a text message at the beginning of a chapter?
You could use a screenshot of the text message or messages. Doing so will give a more direct impression of seeing the message on a phone. The next best thing might be to place it in a text box (with rounded corners) to suggest that the text is being displayed a screen.
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about 8 years ago
Answer A: When should my amnesiac protagonist regain memory?
For the reader, a person with amnesia caused by a brain injury suddenly regaining full awareness can seem like a deus-ex-machina trope. From what I understand, as the brain recovers, this person can regain partial awareness of the past, in bits and pieces. In fiction, you can use this device to give ...
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almost 9 years ago
Answer A: How to give written advice in a way that is encouraging, not overbearing
The sample you've provided comes off as the classic parental/big brother lecture. Unless the young person is docile, they are likely to disengage, stop listening, argue, get up, and walk away. If you want to ratchet down the tension and move toward a meaningful conversation, here are some suggestion...
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almost 9 years ago
Question Attracting and retaining volunteers to edit technical doc for open source projects
I volunteer as an editor for the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), an organization that creates free open source software such as the Firefox browser. MDN has a large number of technical topics awaiting review, around 625 at this moment. Most topics are very short and well-written, so they require fe...
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almost 9 years ago