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Answer A: How do I keep up with current written English language?
Read. Read more. Listen. Listen more. Luckily, there is no one place to suggest as an answer. If there was- the language would be dying.
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almost 13 years ago
Answer A: Dedicated micro website
If the publisher thinks it's a good idea they ought to tell their marketer to set one up and ask you to approve the content. Isn't that what the job of a marketer is- to market your book? If YOU want a web site then make it a web site focused on you the author and your expertise. A link can be for t...
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about 13 years ago
Answer A: Unpunctuation: bug or feature?
McCarthy did it because his writing is strong enough to allow him to get away with it. James Joyce did it too. My fellow students in fourth grade also wrote with little or no punctuation. As far as I know not one of my classmates ever had a novel published. (Yeah, maybe they never wrote one...) The...
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about 13 years ago
Answer A: The opposite sex in first person?
If you have a notion that something is wrong then your "block" is that the method you have chosen is frustrating you. Stop! You have found a way that you are not comfortable writing even if as you say you are still writing. You will do nothing more than get more frustrated. If anyone suggested a def...
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about 13 years ago
Answer A: I have compiled a poetry book with poems of 4chan users. It has a lot of vulgarisms, is it possible to publish something like that?
As someone mentioned earlier- anything can be published. If the real question is will a publisher pay you anything to publish it-The answer is will enough people pay money for the work to allow the publisher a chance to get a ROI? Need I mention that the market for poetry is not large? Unless the w...
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about 13 years ago
Answer A: How do I re-interest myself in a plot I am working on?
If you've lost interest there is a good chance that an agent/audience will too. Put it away and try to write something else. We all have works in "non-progress." Better to find out now; it will decrease the number of rejection letters. Resurrection of the dead is in the realm of a religious issue. ...
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about 13 years ago
Answer A: Dialogue writing practices?
First choose the genre that you intend to write. Find a good example of this genre. (even better than the printed page is a movie or tv show) Pick a scene and transcribe the dialog. It might sound hokey but it will give you a sense of brevity, pacing, cadence, and interchange. (Monkey see. Monkey...
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about 13 years ago
Answer A: How to fix awkward "sufficiently... that..." sentence structure?
The database layout is sufficiently similar across source data formats that we can write a single SQL query to export each output data format. The data structure of the database will allow the use of a single SQL query to access the data for output and reports.
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about 13 years ago
Answer A: So I finished my novel. Now what do I do?
Your fun has just started. Look at the first three chapters. Look at the first sentence. Look at the first five pages. Each of these are critical if you want to sell it. Do not even bother with a re-write of more than the first three chapters until you have an agent/publisher interested. All of th...
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about 13 years ago
Answer A: What can I write to improve reader participation at this blog?
First, I doubt that I would ever seek out a blog related to a "Costume Company." I suspect there might be a few others like me. That being said, what is THEIR take-away? If you are not GIVING them something that makes them REALLY want to read it then I doubt if they'll be waiting for your next post....
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over 13 years ago