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Posts by Daniel Johnson‭

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Q&A Should I use ellipses or em dashes to denote pauses in speech?

I'd use ellipses for pauses, dashes are usually used for interruption. "I found this - " "That doesn't matter, look what I found!" As opposed to: "She... She's dead."

posted 9y ago by Daniel Johnson‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Can I adapt writing in a RPG forum to writing in a book?

Make sure you have legal consent from everyone who's writing you are using, as it could lead to some pretty serious legal stuff. But if you have the legal consent of all the writers, you should be ...

posted 9y ago by Daniel Johnson‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Changing main character within a trilogy, is a good idea?

If you've ever read Darren Shan's Demonata series you'd know that switching characters can work effectively, as he uses three different main characters who meet up at the end. So there is definitel...

posted 9y ago by Daniel Johnson‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How much is considered plagiarism?

Excellent question. It really depends on how you use each similarity. If you make it very obvious that your story has taken elements of the Harry Potter stories (-For example.) then it will be pick...

posted 9y ago by Daniel Johnson‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Use of realism in a fictional setting

I am writing a fictional novel. It is set in many fictional places and the book will have it's own set of rules of physics. However, I feel that if I lose the sense of realism too much there will b...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Daniel Johnson‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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