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Posts by Jason Baker‭

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Q&A Is it appropriate to credit someone with a quote if I am not absolutely sure they are the source?

Try something like this: This quote is often attributed to Carl Sagan, but I can find little evidence to support that attribution. Regardless, I think this quote is important because...

posted 12y ago by Jason Baker‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Mixing dissonance and alliteration?

Are alliteration and dissonance considered mutually exclusive? My understanding is that alliteration means repetition of consonant sounds to make text flow more harmoniously, while dissonance means...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Jason Baker‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A What are general strategies for making the reader uncomfortable with something they might not naturally be uncomfortable with?

I'm working on a prose that depicts a sexual act that I feel readers should be uncomfortable with. I'll spare you the details, but the short version is that the main character is turned on by a vio...

0 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jason Baker‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How do I improve "beige" text?

I have a tendency to write text that's on the "beige" side. I think it's the engineer in me that tends to write text that's very straightforward and strictly factual. To a certain degree, that's go...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Jason Baker‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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