Posts by Reed
I am not a native speaker and I have trouble with long sentences. A long sentence is tiring to the eye and requires more concentration. Long is bad; you need to come up for air. Sometimes, a long...
For French words, at least, it is mostly a pretentious way to show the author is cultured, thought funnily enough their "French" is often incorrect, though it will pass mustard for most readers. F...
I am considering using the first person for a story I am developing. One of the main benefits of using the first person is the closeness with the reader it generates. However, I am not sure that ...
It seems to me to mostly depend on your target audience. Scientists of this field will want full throttle facts, General scientific types will expect to be convinced by strong backable data In...
Skinny=beautiful is a recent western concept, most cultures still see fat as healthy, beautiful, lively, or desirable and skinny women as diseased, ugly, barren, and close to death. Beauty is in t...
At first this seemed a superficial Q, but when you think about it, why not? In many arts, like painting, there are clear technical manuals. This is in no way limited to “crafts”. Obviously the art...
At the base there are "formating" guides, the driest of them all, like the Associated Press Style, Chicago Manual of Style, MLA handbook.... S&W is sometimes listed under the former category, ...
i feel that in a dialogue nobody will say "The year is 24356," maybe they will say "it's 56", "we are in 56" also such a large number for readers that are not used to it, makes almost no sense, it...
It seems that a lot of authors want their heroes to be marked in a special way. It is not enough that these protagonists are going to be heroes, no; they seem to require having a mark that makes t...
For the occasional use of inner voice, Italics are usually recommended. However I have a protagonist who is speaking with himself all the time, and Italics use quickly becomes tiring and distract...
