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Apr 30, 2020: +100

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Is it advisable to add a location heads-up when a scene changes in a novel?
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How to continually and organically let my readers know what time it is in my story?
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Tiptoe or tiphoof? Adjusting words to better fit fantasy races
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Should all books have page numbers?
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What constitutes misleading the reader
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How can I make the relevance of a story thread more apparent?
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Offensive aesthetics and naming conventions?
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Does a novel require a conflict?
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Can fiction be written without a coincidence?
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Is it a bad habit to reveal most of the information still at the beginning of the story?
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How feasible is it to write a story without any worldbuilding?
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How can I keep my dialogue nuanced and informal without breaking the illusion that the story is a translation (from a fictional language)?
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Would employing the use of philosophical ideas in fiction without citing the sources be considered plagiarism?
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How much detail should I go into for a character taking advantage of physics expertise?
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One-page tales: what do I have to spit out and what is indispensable?
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Colorfulness of Language Vs. Simplicity
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How do we draw the line between plagiarism and allusion?
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How Do Online Sites Afford Writers?
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How do I work through writer's block?
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How to handle characters being funny in a dire situation without ruining the mood
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How do you effectively denote a non-"heading-ed" transition into a concluding section?
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Untranslated text with a work being translated
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How can I write in a way that encourages discussion?
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Am I making the writing too complex?
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Ending a PhD thesis by saying "there is more to do"
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How do you effectively develop a plot when you have a proper back story?
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Why do page headers seldom include chapter/section numbers?
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How do you know when there's something missing in your story?
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Is it bad to include subplots that don't push the story forward?
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Is it important to describe how the characters are dressed?
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Will using real-world cultural vocabulary in a fantasy setting disengage readers?
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How to deal with cliche dialogue?
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How to write a polite quotation request email?
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Beginners can break rules too?
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Handling an Inauthentic Character
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Usage of metaphors
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Typical Fairy-tale Story Especially Princess Stories
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Avoiding a juvenile/archaic feel in formal verse
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Am I using too many adjectives/adverbs in the following piece?
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Creating Dialogue
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Genre conventions: Which end do readers expect?
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Storyboard a Novel?
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How to distill a plot into a logline?
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How can you represent music in writing
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What can I do to make my writing less choppy?
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How can I write better code-based reference documentation for programming interfaces?
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Should write "I/he/she said" in dialogue with ambiguous action tags?
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Why doesn't everyone publish public domain books?
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How can we make compiling release notes less chaotic?
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Does this opening somewhat grip the reader?
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Are there straightforward instructions for MS WORD 2013 for numbering in different formats, yet maintaining a chronological count?
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Humor in a fantasy setting
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Rewriting an existing story (fable) to fit it within my fantasy universe
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Good idea to describe the heist place before the heist begins?
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Can I plug a loophole in my magic rules without rewriting the whole novel?
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When do I explain my created world scenario in a prologue vs. letting it unfold in the story?
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Should I switch to present tense when the narrator is talking about one of his habits?
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How can I write a tragedy for children?
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Best way to convey an immediate change of scenery
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When to keep the passive voice and when to remove it
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Worried that my opening is not gripping enough
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Create and using a custom version of a part of an existing mythology
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Is there a known technique for giving your readers chills?
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Does my poem convey the character of the (fictional) author well?
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How do you make a character witty?
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How can I dig conflict out of an optimistic SF-nal premise?
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What steps can be taken to avoid libel / copyright issues in social commentary?
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Can Anybody Write an "Unauthorized" Guide?
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Is the following sentence structure allowed in fiction?
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Separate paragraphs without line breaks
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Why can't I write something longer than a few pages?
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Techniques to write for a wider audience
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Is it better to make clear immediately in which country/continent the story is taking place?
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What's with all the hate on adjectives and adverbs?
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What do you do if you enjoy writing, but have no ideas?
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What literary tools can be used to make stories more immersive?
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Best practice for stories based on other writers' stories
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Where can I find lists of commonly used words to avoid?
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How likely is the "five consecutive word rule" to detect "random," as opposed to intentional plagiarism?
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Which animal symbolises trade?
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How to write from the middle?
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Do different formats of the same book need to be registered separately?
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Should dull dialogue be removed completely?
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Chapter names: The various ways of implementing them and why should I care
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How do I change a novel from first person to limited third person?
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Are there rules for, or guidelines on, time gaps between a plot's scenes/chapters?
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Gadgets that make the world/story broken
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Learning storywriting for videogames - Handling deep nonlinearities
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A cross-[What] kind of romance?
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Peeking through character's mask
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Peeking through character's mask
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Characters with no names
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Non-cheap ways to make villains evil?
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Can a section have the same name as the chapter?
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Using dashes in writing dialogue
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Believable (but easy) archaic English
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How does one write a character smarter than oneself?
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Is there a description of location required in intense moments of the story like in a love story
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of writing in first person?
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Using uncommon abbreviations
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Tiptoe or tiphoof? Adjusting words to better fit fantasy races
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How can I write better code-based reference documentation for programming interfaces?
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How to tag distinct options/entities without giving any an implicit priority or suggested order?
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