Activity for Jed Oliverâ€
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| Edit | Post #7672 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #7318 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #5798 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #5731 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: How to come up with a good title? The short answer is that there is no right answer. The hardest word choice in any book is the handful of words that make up the title. And if I were allowed to give advice then the advice I would give is to trust in magical word angels who will eventually whisper in your ear and tell you what the ti... (more) |
— | about 11 years ago |
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A: How should we go from Stack Exchange Q/A to publishable PDF with the least hassle? If you only want to convert a handful of pages into PDF, then you can do that in Microsoft Word and you will probably be ok. If you want to convert a large quantity of webpages into PDFs and wish to preserve their edibility and eliminate unnecessary information, I am going to strongly suggest the fo... (more) |
— | about 11 years ago |
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Is it more advantageous to have an excerpt or a plot summary critiqued? I'm considering opening up my current work in progress to critique. In the past I haven't had very much luck with the local writer's group, but I'm willing to try again. Maybe not with them, but definitely with some writer's support forum, somewhere. The writer's group I used to associate with would... (more) |
— | almost 12 years ago |
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The ethics of multiple contest submissions So I'm gearing up to write an actual full-length novel and I've decided that the best way to test the mettle of my writing (and make a couple of bucks in the process) is to enter a few writing contests. But I simply don't have the time to write a brand new short story for every. single. contest. Plu... (more) |
— | about 12 years ago |
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A: How/When to create deliberately boring characters? Characters are people, just like you and me. We all have our own little biographies and memories that shape our character, define our personality and predict and explain our behavior. Some of those biographies will inherently be more interesting than others and some will be engaging to only a few and... (more) |
— | about 12 years ago |