Activity for gerrit
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #34472 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #21277 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: My story is written in English, but is set in my home country. What language should I use for the dialogue? The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy is written in English, but when characters are speaking Spanish the dialogue is written in Spanish. Unusually, those parts of the dialogue are not translated, and not limited to short irrelevant sentences either, but those dialogues may span multiple pages. Now t... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: How do I keep the gender of my main character purposely ambiguous? You could make the narrator fascinated with the main character and write your story in the second person. Perhaps the narrator is a friend or mentor of some kind, to whom the main character shares most of what happens, but not their gender. In Peter Pohls book Janne, min vän, translated into Eng... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |