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I think the answer to your specific problem is that there is no simple solution. There is no trick. Reading out loud does definitely help, but ultimately if your mind is subconsciously fixing the e...

posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

A cursory search yielded a few instances of other people asking the same question on other sites, but no actual technical terminology or guidelines. I agree with LaurenIpsum's comment: I think this...

posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Personally, I'm heavily in favor of #3 as a way of learning anything and everything to do with writing. I too spent several years studying engineering and have done my fair share of technical writi...

posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Speaking as someone who's gotten As on essays through the entirety of an American education, I would say that the answer is-- yes and no. That conventional scheme works very well, which is why it'...

posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Among a million other ambitions under the general heading of "Writing," I have this fantasy where I write a major series, several books long with a giant cast. But I started thinking. In giant ser...

2 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

I was re-reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone recently to get a feel for the way J.K. Rowling passes an entire year in a fairly short book that feels content packed, and I noticed somethin...

4 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

When I'm writing a plotline, it often works out that I know two characters will be meeting each other in a particular scene, and that they will converse. And I oftentimes know the central idea of w...

2 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Oh, so your protagonist needs to get to the store badly but his car is in the shop? This guy has a car and some free time. Oh, so your protagonist is after this girl? This guy is her brother. Oh,...

posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Okay, I tried finding this on Google to no avail, and lit.se is gone, so this is sort of my last resort, so I'm trying to make it a writing question. I'm breezing through The Perks of Being a Wall...

0 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

A problem I run into frequently is that I am struck by an idea, more accurately termed "a premise," for a story, but then I can't decide what to do with it. I think of a million ways to present th...

1 answer  ·  posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

This poem is one of the best ever written, for my tastes, and is worth reading. http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-13ways.html The poem has thirteen stanzas, each contributing its ...

posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

I come across words like rectitude, like laudatory, like indigent, and being an experienced reader with a strong grasp on my native language, I know what they mean. They're words that I know. But ...

4 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Script readers-- the people who sift and sort the vast piles of scripts submitted to Hollywood -- do they start at the beginning? The reason I ask is that I know 99% of scripts are awful and just ...

3 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Say you have an English book in which there is a particular dialogue where one of a handful of participating characters is speaking French. In this dialogue the fact that he's speaking French is a ...

1 answer  ·  posted 11y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Slightly obtuse title, let me elaborate. I'm writing my first screenplay, and I'm trying to keep it simple while making it simultaneously wonderful. It's just a rom-com. But as I write and modify...

1 answer  ·  posted 11y ago by temporary_user_name‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭