ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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See all 26 »With lighter stuff the trick is not to play down the importance - someone thought it significant enough to write about it, so thinking of it as fluff could be counterproductive. It could be someth...
posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
I agree with others here that if you've been told not to make changes in style, it's likely that the writer's interpretation was that you should leave things like this alone. But you're the proof ...
posted 7y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
I'm getting the impression that if you were to ask the narrator now, they would say that Rebecca was not, and had never been, much of a friend. If that's correct, you could try something like : ...
posted 8y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
I'd be inclined to put a summary at the beginning, similar to an abstract in an academic paper. That way people would see it first, those who were interested could read further, and those who were ...
posted 8y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
I'm seeing three big generalizations there : Women want to have a baby Women want to be with a guy Money is important in relationships Any one of those will alienate a significant part of an au...
posted 8y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
I'm not sure a fictional character needs a real house. Even if the address is specified, interior and even exterior details can be different. You might find particularly fanatic readers asking awkw...
posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
Since free indirect speech relies on the narrator picking up the dialogue instead of relying on a lot of "John said that he thought that..." or similar, it's going to make it difficult (but not imp...
posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
I usually use the present tense. Future tense works too in the way you've used it, but I would use it sparingly. This might be a "know your audience" answer, and I have more experience in technic...
posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
There's no hard and fast rule, and it depends how many drafts you're thinking of doing before the final version. If this is the only draft, I would aim higher than the limit. If there will be seco...
posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
At work we provide three types of technical document, aimed at different kinds of users : The Quick Start Guide. Single laminated sheet, illustrations and basic explanation. The handbook. A5 form...
1 answer · posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
If the readers already love him, it will be important to have a plausible reason for why he's not around at the moment (Law shows set in New York seem to have the meme that someone is "in London" -...
posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
I like what you did there. Looking at the painting made it clear in the relevant paragraph that "he" was speaking. I'm a big fan of this approach myself. A whole bunch of "he said", "she said" loo...
posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
You're not crazy - it happens, but this sounds particularly odd. Some likely possibilities : 1) As Dale suggested, the price was misheard - it was either $3.00 per page, or $300 for the lot (which...
posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
Pretty much what Tom said, and you could give the reader enough to pick up on a hint that the plants are affected by infra red radiation by introducing a temporary source. Someone could light a fi...
posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
"See figure x" or "Figure x" is the usual way of doing it, or just "(fig.x)". It's perfectly fine as long as the captions on the figures match the references in the text. If the screenshots are of...
posted 9y ago by ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere · last activity 7y ago by System
