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Vote summary for Dale Hartley Emery‭

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Nov 10, 2020: +1

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At what point does a POV character noting their surroundings go from showing/telling to an infodump?
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At what point does a POV character noting their surroundings go from showing/telling to an infodump?
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What to do with cliched metaphors?
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Apr 30, 2020: +122

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Would it be cheating to change the main character's "name" partway through the story?
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At what point does a POV character noting their surroundings go from showing/telling to an infodump?
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How to write a board game scene?
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To what extent is it necessary re-introduce characters at the beginning of each book in a series?
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How to tell when you can only tell
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How much per page? Is this a ripoff?
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How do I get more exposure as an author?
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How does copyright generally work?
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Italicize inside quotes?
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What should I do if I know the antagonist but too many options for protagonist?
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Can success create its own crisis?
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How can I make my roleplay sentences more interesting, and less lengthy?
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How to describe a character when writing in First Person
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Is it bad storytelling to have things happen by complete chance?
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How to stop viewing your story as a film
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Adding words to an instrumental only piano piece. Can I perform the song as my own?
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Ways to avoid repetition of "filler" words in writing?
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Have a tough time figuring out third-person prose
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Chapters - Writing Order
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How can I determine the public opinion of an author?
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Is this an accurate way to negatively describe a mix-breed race?
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How to find different ways to express things that happen to the reader?
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First person POV "mom:" vs. "mother"
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Should I start writing even if I'm not sure how the story will end?
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Is it smart to reserve one's best ideas or to utilise them early in their writing career?
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How to express character thoughts in the third person without using diialogue?
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Is copyright implied when you self publish?
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How do I know whether to revise or submit elsewhere?
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How to write sexual/romantic scenes?
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How do I write an emotional scene?
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Copyright Infringement if I directly gain no money?
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Swearing in a book, within a context. Too offensive?
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How to motivate yourself to finish something?
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Can you sell a book for money while having it published online for free?
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Having poems published in magazines/journals Vs. Posting them online for free?
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Starting a book with a scene from the middle
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Is history best left untold?
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Spacing for quotes within quotes
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How to Choose What is Included in Table of Contents for ePub Book
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Traditional vs. Self Publishing... Show me the Money?
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How to share research and character notes between multiple works in Scrivener?
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Beginning to write a novel?
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What to do with cliched metaphors?
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Using filler words like 'So', 'Anyway'
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How rough should a rough draft be
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Synonym for 'overly obvious'?
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technical subjects - non-fiction vs fiction
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How to improve logic/reduce plot holes?
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The fine line between accurate science, and confusing my reader
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How could collaborative writing in one world work?
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Should I force-developing a story to a setting I have?
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How to make the reader "accept" absurdity?
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Is it a bad idea to publish individual chapters of my book idea online for feedback?
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How political can an author's note be, would the following fly?
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Any helpful tips on how to, better use description in my writing?
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Gracefully state novelty of a thesis in the introduction
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Use of old ads in a book
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How to decide the position of short phrases?
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How do you effectively denote a non-"heading-ed" transition into a concluding section?
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Fiction writing: is using Git overkill?
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How to stay motivated while rewriting?
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Discouraging link to Lulu or CreateSpace
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Is there a way to know who bought my books on Amazon?
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When to be specific and when to let context fill in the holes?
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Is CreateSpace 100% free for self-publishing?
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Defining a Prologue
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How should changing the point of view be handled?
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Story length and the term used
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no matter whether = whether?
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What are some strategies for surprising the reader?
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What are my options for free preview copies if I self publish via online services?
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Can stories be "revived"?
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Indicating a word choice you're unsure of
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Struggling to writing in English
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Where to find a the best narrators and producers to turn a good written work into a good audiobook
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Formal video-based creative writing courses
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How to handle a character when she is lying about her name
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Problem: Scenes that are unavoidable, but boring
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Who can help me to describe the text line from my story in slow motion?
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How can I avoid word repetition in the following paragraph?
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Is there enough money in writing for me to quit my dead end job?
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Choosing a word according to its length
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What are these extra phrases added to the beginning of sentences called?
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Is it possible to establish a relation between word count and page count?
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"Variation" and "symmetry" in a sentence
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Legalities about fictionalizing current events?
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API reference doc: best practices for describing opaque parameters?
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How can I dig conflict out of an optimistic SF-nal premise?
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How to decide whether or not to accept publishing offer for short story?
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How to do dialogue?
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What do you do if you enjoy writing, but have no ideas?
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Writing style — comma, period and re-referring the object of the first sentence again as subject in second sentence
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Critique: Make excerpt more visual/flow better
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1st person story, but the main character will die in the end and some of the story needs to be told after his death. How to solve this problem?
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Is it unusual for a flashback to have a very long dialogue?
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Is it acceptable practice to use contractions in a fictional first person narrative for children?
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Do I include the method of my research in the title?
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Software for collaborative writing for a small team
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avoiding making all your characters sound the same
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How can I keep my characters' identities a mystery successfully?
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Alternatives to "he said" in dialogue
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How to avoid repetitive sentence structure?
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Deciding whether to use a dialogue tag or an action tag in a dialogue
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How to distinguish if a novel is science fiction or fantasy?
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What effect on literature has the introduction of eBooks and eReaders had?
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A tricky sentence to construct
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Risk Assessment in Technical Standards Documentation
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Motivation Reaction Units?
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How do I successfully structure a long fiction piece?
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Book recommendations for writing better technical papers
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First Person Voice - Same as speaking?
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If in real life the antagonist is often oneself, shouldn't it work in a full length novel?
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How could this paragraph of writing be improved
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What methods can I use to revise my writing?
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Guideline on turning points in a novel?
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Meretricious - A bit too fancy?
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Which version of these three lines is more likely to attract the interest of the reader ? (character's viewpoint vs omnicient narrator)
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Getting emotional while writing, good or bad?
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Critique: Intro/Prologue to my Novel-in-Progress
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How do you convince your publisher that your story is good?
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How do you map out your storyline?
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Tools for generating characters' names
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Apr 26, 2020: +1

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How should a writer use version control to track drafts, rewrites, and revisions?
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Jan 21, 2020: +1

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How to convey that the POV character *does not understand* what's said in dialogue?
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