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Sep 1, 2021: +1

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I feel like I'm plagiarizing my story?
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Is page range inclusive or exclusive?
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Where's the balance between realism and story?
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Do we simplify descriptions when they sound weird?
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How to deal appropriately with an inappropriate sexual relationship
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Do I really need a platform to sell my novel?
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Is there such a thing as too inconvenient?
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A torrent of foreign terms
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The seven story archetypes. Are they truly all of them?
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Is straight-up writing someone's opinions telling?
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Is it bad to describe a character long after their introduction?
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How do I indicate that the next scene actually happens at the same time as the previous scene
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Cover image formatting for books published on Amazon?
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Is it advisable to begin marketing a book before it is published?
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Writing about oneself objectively
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What percentage of Amazon ebook customers in the US are subscribers to Kindle Unlimited?
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Writing in a Christian voice
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Is It Legal to Use Military Insignias of Defunct Nations?
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Using words from another book
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Is it ok to have many characters who only appear for a few chapters?
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When writing in a school context without ever having been to school, how do I make sure that my story is accurate within school context?
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Dead children in pre-modern setting
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Do hard to pronounce names break immersion?
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Not having any white MC's?
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Are paragraph spaces used for emphasis?
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Once written down it's set in stone
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What are the legal concern if our story turns out to a duplicate of an existing copyrighted story?
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Ripoff Character
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Is it much costlier to self-publish a 6x9 book than a 5x8 with a POD printer?
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Class/Course Names in Fiction
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Will an explicit resemblance to an Actor put-off the readers disliking him?
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How do I know if a concept is sexist or not?
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Writing a poem in secondary language that has rules for primary language
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How do I know which elements I can use from the work which orginally inspired me?
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Will traditional publishers force you to remove brands?
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What would you say is the best way to get a self published book popularized without making a blog?
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What are the Pros and Cons of long names?
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Would it confuse my readers to give two siblings nicknames that can be abbreviations of the same name?
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Can I use "I" in an essay?
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Referencing modern pop culture in science fiction
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Should creativity or eloquence in a technical document be removed during review?
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I feel like I'm plagiarizing my story?
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"Real people don't make good fictional characters". Really true?
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Is there a way to license fictional characters, settings, ideas, et cetera?
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A question on the ambiguity of the Alternate History genre
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Payment questions around joint publishing ebook over Kindle
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What is the best description for this particular kind of building (and apartment arrangement - Central European style of building)?
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How to perpetuate the plot-driving riddle without frustrating the reader?
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Is discovering memories are false, a plot twist that invalidates my story so far?
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How to talk about certain anatomy without sounding vulgar or cowardly?
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Should mystery stories have resolutions?
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POD Formatting For Soft And Hard Cover
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Self-check redundant words
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Why are clichés discouraged in fiction writing?
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Should I defend my character's appearance?
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Indexing: after or during the writing process
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In searchable documentation, what function does a glossary serve?
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Use of real organization in fiction
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Using names of video game, movie, and comic book characters and group names in novel, but as tribute to them
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How does a new writer keep from getting scooped?
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Is it okay to have a character that has the same first or last name as another famous character
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A different question regarding titling a novel - Edited
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How to show time lapse between two chapters?
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Book Format Shape
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Are rhymes bad in prose?
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Using place names from other novels
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How can I determine the public opinion of an author?
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How to make a sentence seems more legitimate?
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What's the benefit of inventing a fictional region, if it's based on a real one?
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Printing or Private Use
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Rewriting about a baby-cam intrusion
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What software do you use before paper distribution?
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Would employing the use of philosophical ideas in fiction without citing the sources be considered plagiarism?
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Can basic grammar rules be skipped when writing text for machine safety labels?
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Can I use names of characters and groups that other authors/creators have used already?
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Notes first or just start writing?
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Can trademarked or copyrighted characters be referenced to in an app description on one of the app stores?
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How to secure my written work from being stolen or copied before publishing?
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How do you describe someone approaching and calling out at the same time without using different font sizes?
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Is it possible to publish a single copy of a book?
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Would a government care if my novel mentioned their controversial / questionable practices?
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What makes a plot twist believable/unbelievable?
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Minimal requirements for a portable computer for writing only?
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Can technical writing suck less
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Do most e-book writers just self publish on Kindle to start with?
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How many meaningful names can I put in my story?
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A character who teaches how to build wealth
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Is the Concept of "Machine of Death" Copyrighted?
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Where do you do your writing?
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The difference between two speech formats
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Is it fine to write something that has no relation to my local life or language or culture?
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Swearing in a book, within a context. Too offensive?
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APA Headings- Frequency
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Should I describe my characters going to the toilet?
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What should you do if the events in your story happen in real life just when you finish writing it?
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Speaking of Living Rooms
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Confidentiality Concerns
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'I would argue that ABC.' vs 'ABC.'
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How to copyright a book without lawyer and outside USA?
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In what parts of a newspaper/magazine one could get an article published?
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Choice of format for publishing to Kindle
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Why does this software suggest capitalizing the word 'dragon'?
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Can someone give me an example of a figure of speech that could realistically be confused for a literal statement?
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Can a foreign language novel have English character names?
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self publishing
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What makes a bestseller - Writing or Setting?
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Is it strange to describe the narrator's facial expressions in a first-person narrative?
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How to decide whether a story is worth writing?
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Is the following deus-ex-machina? If so, should I remove it?
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How to properly cite a source in your footnotes?
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Feedback: What to use and what to ignore?
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How to make the reader "accept" absurdity?
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Copyright of a TV series when used as reference?
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What is the role of memorable lines in movies?
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Studies of when to kill a character
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"Empty-space" vs "three-dot" scene break
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Is breaking the fourth wall to the point of nonexistence appropriate for a comedy book?
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What's the best text editor for a technical reference manual?
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Who do I cite as my source?
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Should postal address formats change when translated?
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How to write romance without falling into cliché?
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The extent of obscure references
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Filter Words in Dialog
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How do I write numbers in dialogue?
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How to balance for readers who are not technologically literate
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Why are the paragraphs of a document often indented and not vertically separated?
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How can I have my characters do bad things, without sending the wrong message?
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How to keep going after a failed project?
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"Thought" Verbs: A sign of weak writing or a stylistic choice?
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Where can one go to find police procedures
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Why write in a different genre than what you read?
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Past tense vs present tense
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Why do page headers seldom include chapter/section numbers?
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Stranded Society Speaking Same Language
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When mentioning two items in a sentence, should I specify which one I'm referring to in the next one?
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Do I risk losing reader if I put too many religious/anti-religious views?
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Copyright issue when referring to a textbook
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How to show characters learning something in a non-boring way?
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What concrete steps do you take to write for a specific reading level?
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Is there a format I can save my poems in that will make the publisher unable to copy and paste?
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Is it legal to use a parental advisory on a book?
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What is the best way to use your favorite authors as inspiration without plagiarism?
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Variation in humor among ethnic/cultural groups
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Where to put counter-examples within a 5-paragraph essay?
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Can I use real presidents (past and present) and real companies in a fictional story?
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Create and using a custom version of a part of an existing mythology
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Should this introductory quotation be translated, untranslated, or dropped?
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Should I use the words "My grandma" repetitively to start sentences in an essay?
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Stupid Villain rather than Dark Lord
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Is muteness appearing without explicit reason acceptable?
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costs of self-publishing photo book, coffeetable
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Characters with non-standard names
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Level of description in a story
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How to make a intellectually disabled character believable?
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API reference doc: best practices for describing opaque parameters?
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How much can I talk about other people's works?
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Using hyphen points
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Using pronouns properly in order to avoid confusion and repetition
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How to avoid repetition
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Is it better to omit phrases like: after a moment, after a while, for a moment, etc?
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Dream analysis research
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Do empty pages need a number?
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Is dialogue in a novel necessary, or just padding?
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Is it possible my book could be taken off-line for sale if there is a cease and desist letter?
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When self publishing, are there benefits to making a company to represent your books? Is that then a publishing house?
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What are the advantages of different date formats in resumes and CVs?
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Can a self publishing author use a Pen name/Pseudonym?
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Tenses I should use in a translated-novel
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Is a glossary needed in a novel?
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What exactly is the "five (consecutive) word" plagiarism rule?
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Standardizing capitalization within a bibliography or footnotes when your sources have used different standards
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Does inclusion of significant quotations from literature make a novel harder to publish?
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Multiple authors in MLA header
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Killing off a character: deciding if, when and how
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My ex-husband's wife self-published a nonfiction book naming my kids in the story
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Are there rules for, or guidelines on, time gaps between a plot's scenes/chapters?
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What is the proper way to use the pronoun "I" without too much repetition?
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Should I remove scenes that I myself find "boring"?
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Troubles with unfamiliar locations and settings based in the real world
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What genre appeals to the widest audience?
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avoiding making all your characters sound the same
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Combatting Excessive Familiarity Of Writing
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How many commas is too many?
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Alternatives to "he said" in dialogue
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A cross-[What] kind of romance?
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Is it a bad writing practice to start sentences with a verb?
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Non-cheap ways to make villains evil?
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Spiritual elements in a science-fiction novel
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How do you determine if a plot device is too coincidental?
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How can one write about illegal deeds without getting into trouble?
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What to do when characters disagree with the plot?
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Audio version of copyrighted written material
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Why do writers use pseudonyms?
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How do you make a story succeed in spite of an unsympathetic main character?
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Sympathetic portrayal of devout, rule-abiding characters
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How does one deal with world builder's syndrome?
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When should one *not* present events in chronological order?
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Is there an accepted (or 'correct') way to write translations/subtitles for different materials (videos, articles, books, etc)?
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Feb 4, 2020: +1

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How to deal appropriately with an inappropriate sexual relationship
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Jan 20, 2020: +1

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Detail vs. filler
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Dec 27, 2019: +1

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Can basic grammar rules be skipped when writing text for machine safety labels?
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Dec 21, 2019: +3

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How can I make names more distinctive without making them longer?
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Dec 20, 2019: +2

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How can I make names more distinctive without making them longer?
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How does one write from a minority culture? A question on cultural references
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How does one write from a minority culture? A question on cultural references
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