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Posts by Jed Oliver‭

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Q&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...

posted 12y ago by Jed Oliver‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A 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 de...

3 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Jed Oliver‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 11y ago by Jed Oliver‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&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 g...

posted 11y ago by Jed Oliver‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A 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 cont...

2 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Jed Oliver‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭