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Answer A: Is it possible to write a short story in 500 words?
In "150+ Short Two-Sentence Horror Stories To Freak You Out," Michael Koh compiled a list of two-sentence horror stories. He started of by saying that "horror stories don’t need to be long in order to be scary. A good horror concept can always be boiled down to its chilling core." Here are a few ex...
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almost 5 years ago
Answer A: Is there a better way to introduce acronyms through a dialogue?
In fiction, there are several possibilities: - Have the narrator explain the acronym outside of actual dialogue, assuming that the narrator is written in a way to express their thoughts. - Have a character who doesn't know the acronym ask what is being talked about; the acronym can then be reasonabl...
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about 5 years ago
Answer A: Will writing actual numbers instead of writing them with letters affect readership?
I will provide quotes from The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed., and from The Editors Blog. The links to Chicago are behind a paywall and, unfortunately, can only be viewed if you have a subscription. While these generally hold true across most style guides (in both English in general and literatur...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: MLA: Source Author has the same name as me
From the MLA Handbook, 8th ed., p. 55: > There are circumstances in which a citation like "(Baron 194)" doesn't provide enough information to lead ambiguously to a specific entry. If you borrow from works by more than one author with the same last name (e.g., Naomi Baron and Sabrina Alcorn Baron), e...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: How to tell people you write smut/erotica/porn
There's nothing wrong with the word erotica. That's exactly how it's categorized in bookstores, where it's publicly displayed and not considered something to be hidden from anyone. > [Merriam-Webster] > 1 : literary or artistic works having an erotic theme or quality If people take issue with the...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: Is elaborating the opposite case in brackets acceptable and clear?
If you are writing a paper in a context where the type of shortening in A is a recognized device for the kind of contrast you use in B, then you can use it. Personally, I've never seen anything like it before—and I've worked on papers across a wide range of academic and technical genres. To me, whe...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: The problem of the throwaway boyfriend
You seem to want there to be a throwaway relationship on the one hand but not on the other hand. There are of course subtleties and degrees, but, in a broad analysis, either it is a throwaway relationship—and you shouldn't worry about there being little tension over it disappearing (at least not in ...
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almost 6 years ago
Answer A: Citing and typos
Correcting a translation is something different than just correcting a typo. The difference between what's been printed here and what you think it should be seems more like a misinterpretation on the part of the translator than a simple typo. In this case I would cite it exactly as it is, but point ...
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almost 6 years ago
Answer A: Post scriptum in my soft diary
There is a discussion of the use of postscripts in email messages on English Language & Usage. The discussion was closed as being primarily opinion based, but one thing to consider is that a postscript can be used as a deliberate style choice rather than just adding something at the end because you ...
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about 6 years ago
Answer A: Writing a song as the hook
For some reason, when I read this question, my thoughts were immediately drawn to the book The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester. At one point in the classic science fiction story, the protagonist is introduced to a song's lyrics. The passage is quoted on a website with the same name as the song, Tense...
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about 6 years ago