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Posts by Karan Desai‭

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Q&A Is it a good idea to give your manuscript for publishing to a considerably new publisher (start-up)?

In our local area, there are many new publishers that claims to publish our writeups. The time frame of submission review is less. Also, they are cheaper than the renowned publishers. Is it a good ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to make readers know that my work has used a hidden constraint?

According to this wikipedia article, Constrained writing is a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern. The same link also ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is it okay to majorly distort historical facts while writing a fiction story?

Suppose A is a famous historical character with a known history of emotional attachment with a particular set of people. If I would want to write a fictional story about character A that might invo...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to invoke interest in readers for second part of story when first part is not so popular + old?

I started a story and published it online in 2016. And then I disappeared due to various unavoidable priorities in life. But now I want to restart. But I am not sure. There are already less views. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to eliminate standoff between "Lengthy" vs "Concision"?

Often while writing a software requirement/change-request documentation, I need to include the quoted requirements descriptively, the impacted modules, the changes provided both in UI and in logic....

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to identify whether a publisher is genuine or not?

Despite an identical title: This question is in no means duplicate of this question. In my local area, there have been various ads running on social media that invite novice writers to contribute ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is it important to describe every character of the storyline?

Note: I am not sure of which site this question belongs to: Writing SE or Literature SE. If this question is unfit for this site, I will happily migrate it there. So I am writing about the protago...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to make sure that my reader has not forgotten an incident or character which was described earlier and referenced much later in the writing? [closed]

In the context of writing a fiction novel, how to make sure that readers remember several of the incidents or events or even characters that were described in earlier chapters, when the same gets r...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Are too many exclamations wrong?

Exclamations, I feel, are a good way to describe tone without actually writing the tone. But most of the time I end up (as per reviewers) with too many of exclamations. Many also say that too man...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to write a puzzle without being too descriptive or vague?

I have recently joined the Puzzling.SE site and I am excited to ask few puzzles there. However, I am stuck, rather confused as to how a puzzle qualifies as good and precise. I want to ensure its cl...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A What exactly is the difference between Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com and what should be used for self publishing?

I recently came to know that wordpress.com and wordpress.org are two different platforms for publishing. But despite browsing on various links I am not able to fully understand the actual differenc...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How is the monetary value of a single submission determined?

I have read couple of submission guidelines and publisher notes that pays on the "word" unit for descriptive essays, articles and lists. (For ex, 2₹/word). Then there are different guidelines for p...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is it important to consider tone, melody, and musical form while writing a song?

Be it Mowgli and balu singing Bare Necessities or Enrique singing Somebody's Me, each song (or poem) has their way of being sung. Were such songs written after selection of musical note, tone, and ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A What are the differences in writing a narrative between a CV and a resume?

When I googled "The Difference between Resume and CV", the first result I bumped into was this. I am highlighting a few points that are mentioned in it below: The primary differences between a ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to describe accents?

India has a diverse range of languages and accents. Moreover, people from different parts of the country have different accents of speaking the same language as well. For example, a person from Guj...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Karan Desai‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭