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Answer A: How do you verify information?
If the Internet doesn't suffice (and when really trying to craft characters, it may very well not), there are other types of research. A significant type of research is interviews. Finding someone to interview related to a topic and scheduling and interview with them can be very difficult, but the u...
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over 6 years ago
Answer A: No Contractions
While I do see avoiding contractions completely as fairly arbitrary for expository writing in a History class, in a composition or creative writing class, there is a case to be made for seemingly arbitrary rules such as "no contractions". When we learn the craft of writing, it is helpful to take us ...
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over 6 years ago
Question Sorkin: "Dialog is music" - In what way(s)?
I recently watched Aaron Sorkin's Masterclass on screenwriting. One frustrating section of it (overall it's quite good, IMHO) is about dialog, and Sorkin says that dialog is important, it can't be taught, and it is music. To be precise, he first says that dialog is like music, and then says that dia...
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over 6 years ago
Answer A: Descriptive words to slow down the pace of the story?
One way to break down a story is intention versus obstacle. The intention is what the protagonist must accomplish, and the more necessary the intention is, the better. At the same time, the obstacle is what prevents the protagonist from realizing their intention, and just as necessary as the intenti...
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almost 7 years ago
Answer A: How do big creative writing projects with multiple people work, preferably in the videogame industry?
I wrote all this before I understood that the desired focus was on video games specifically: I don't know a lot about story writing for video games or coding, but I do have experience with collaborative writing and I expect writing for video games is similar to other collaborative projects, like...
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almost 7 years ago
Answer A: Other than trademarked names, should recipe ingredients in a cookbook be capitalized?
After reviewing several recipe web sites created by corporate media groups and Internet startups, it is clear that, in general, recipe ingredients are not capitalized, but a few online style guides do say to capitalize the first letter of an ingredient name. I see a lot more lower case ingredient nam...
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almost 7 years ago
Answer A: How to describe a female character's figure without comedy?
Don't describe the character's body. Let the action and the other characters do it for you. > "Have you met Lydia yet?" > > "No, why?" > > John and Andy exchanged a knowing look. "Let me just say that once you do, you'll forget all about what's-her-name". Later > Without any apparent shame, John...
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almost 7 years ago
Answer A: How to make a psychopath/sociopath likeable?
One comment and one answer have both mentioned Dexter, but it doesn't seem to me that either has explained how and why we sympathize with Dexter, despite the fact that he's a serial killer. The store of Dexter is very long, so there is lots of time to present different facts about Dexter and differe...
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almost 7 years ago