Activity for Keith Morrison
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| Edit | Post #38107 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Don't look at what I did there Many stories have characters who performs offscreen heroics or have their own adventures (as TVTropes calls it, The Greatest Story Never Told). Example off the top of my head is Glynn Stewart's ONSET series: one of the good guys is a demon named Ix. At some point between books he went off and did som... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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A: Ending a line of dialogue with "?!": Allowed or obnoxious? The combination "?!" has been in common usage enough that the interrobang (‽) was suggested as a punctuation mark to replace the need to use two symbols. Note that the interrobang (and thus the intent to use "?!") would normally not be used in formal writing, but was used in the ruling of a 2012 US ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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A: What are some bad ways to subvert tropes? One very bad way of subverting a trope is thinking you're being clever and subverting a trope only it's Dead Horse Trope and no one actually uses it straight any more. For instance, there have been instances of non-genre writers trying their hand at a genre and think they're being innovative and dari... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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A: What are the differences in writing a narrative between a CV and a resume? A resumé is telling a potential employer what you can do. A CV is you showing a potential employer what you have done. To use an entertainment analogy, if someone were casting for a new part in a film a resumé is the equivalent of the actor showing up and talking about how their experience in this f... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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A: Are fictional inventions trademarked? The concept of power armour isn't in itself subject to a trademark or copyright, but Iron Man's definitely would be, just as a costume consisting of a bodysuit, boots, and a cape would be okay but red boots and cape with a blue bodysuit with a shield-shaped red and yellow logo on the chest, not okay.... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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A: At what point does a POV character noting their surroundings go from showing/telling to an infodump? One of the questions to be asked first is why is the character there? Someone just arriving at a new place for a business chat with the occupant is not going to observe the place the same way an investigator is looking at a potential crime scene or a someone checking out their friend's new digs is go... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
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A: How to make the reader think that the *character's* logic is flawed instead of the author's? Show the character's motives involves a fact the character believes to be true, but which the reader has earlier seen is false. Example from David Weber's Honor Harrington SF series: the Grand Alliance believes the resumption of the war between Manticore and Haven (which they eventually settled) was... (more) |
— | about 6 years ago |