Activity for Malvolioâ€
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| Edit | Post #3701 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Anybody know anything about examiner.com? Apparently it's some sort of "pro-am" site. I applied to be a travel writer and they, uh, picked me. I'm curious if anybody knows where examiner.com is on a 1 to 10 scale where "1" is "Application process? Everybody gets in, they're just scamming you for free content" and "10" is "ZOMG! You're writin... (more) |
— | almost 13 years ago |
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A: Can a book be written without an antagonist? All fiction must have conflict, but that conflict certainly doesn't have to spring from the existence of a personified antagonist. There's man-against-nature (e.g., any survival story), man-against-himself (any kind of addiction-recovery story), and even conflicting protagonists (i.e., two characters... (more) |
— | almost 13 years ago |
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A: In what order should I describe a setting? I don't know if there's a rule, but I have a meta-rule: the description has to follow an eye-line. That is, everything is described in the order that a person might see it. So I might start with the sky, then the trees then the dirt; or the outside of the building, then the doorway, the foyer, the co... (more) |
— | about 13 years ago |
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A: Do writers use highlighting to clarify ideas in their work in progress? This is a terrible idea. If you, who wrote the damned thing, are having trouble telling characters apart, keeping track of scenes, identifying key ideas, reflect on how much more trouble your reader, whose only source of insight will be the black-on-white text, will have! Seriously, if things are tha... (more) |
— | about 13 years ago |
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A: How to refer to character of focus in a story It does feel weird when you're writing, but you don't notice it when you're reading. Use the name the first time in a paragraph and the pronoun thereafter. (more) |
— | about 13 years ago |