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May 24, 2020: +2

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What to do with cliched metaphors?

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Will my readers feel like they are reading a children's storybook if there are illustrations in my novel?

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Is alliteration distracting and not very valuable/interesting for the reader?

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Can writing actually be creative?

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How does the length/position of action tags affect the dialogue?

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Are using adverbs in dialogue/action tags a sign of bad writing?

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How to format common words that are made "special"?

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Action/dialogue tags: What's the right amount?

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Is it a good idea to stay away from past progressive in fiction?

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Exaggeration vs believability in humor writing

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What makes a bestseller - Writing or Setting?

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Main noun: How do you decide where to place it?

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Ways to remove "filtering" in narration?

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What to do with cliched metaphors?

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How to make a character that doesn't speak about himself relatable?

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Feedback: What to use and what to ignore?

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Is a novel with 50K words more likely to sell than one with 40K?

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How do you decide where to place a filler?

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What's the initial small caps rule of this book?

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Is it OK for a first person narrator to directly state the other character's emotions?

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How to write romance without falling into cliché?

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Should I drop the quotation marks in a chapter that consists mostly on a character telling a story?

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Placing a "strong" verb before a "weak" verb

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Is it OK to add chapters to slow down the pace of the story?

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Are the tenses of the following piece correct?

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How much repetition is too much repetition?

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Is it OK to use "I guess" in fiction?

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Is the following "shortening" allowed in fiction?

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Is there a coherence problem in my story?

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Do items on a list have to follow the order/logic of the previous one?

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Stories based on news: are they allowed?

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Use past or present tense for lasting fact

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When to be specific and when to let context fill in the holes?

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How do you know when there's something missing in your story?

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Do I risk losing reader if I put too many religious/anti-religious views?

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Which social media platforms should writers use to build a readership?

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When does repetition start becoming tedious (especially metaphors)?

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Pros and cons of using real brand/company names?

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How does the placement of transition sentences affects the meaning/tone of a piece?

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Listing items in fiction

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What should take precedence? Rhythm or clarity?

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Should I make the gender of the narrator more obvious?

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Using "he/she" instead of "it" for animals

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Should one avoid overusing "it" in prose?

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Should write "I/he/she said" in dialogue with ambiguous action tags?

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What can I use instead of "but" and "however"?

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Where to draw the line between being descriptive and getting on with the story?

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Does this entice the reader to continue?

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Is it possible to turn a cliche into something original?

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Is the following extended metaphor/group of metaphors too overwhelming?

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When to use pronouns, and when to repeat yourself?

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Procrastination on a Crucial Scene in my Book

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What gender do you think the narrator is?

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Do characters sound too similar if they use the same words/expressions?

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Should I italicise when the protagonist quote other character's words?

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Should I get rid of short sentences that don't provide much information?

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Proper way to punctuate "oh so slow"

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When to keep the passive voice and when to remove it

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As an new author, how important is to have a personal website?

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Rhythm in a list

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Mixing dialogue and action tags

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Should I use present or past tense when the narrator talks about an universal/most-often-true statement?

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Am I overusing the words "started" and "began?"

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Choosing a word according to its length

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What is your writing process?

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What to do when you get stuck trying to connect sentences?

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Ways to replace the phrase "after all?"

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Is repetition justified in the following piece?

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Changing the way one addresses a character in a dialogue to create variation

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Would it be annoying for the reader if the all the scenes alternate between "present" and flashback?

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Writing an effective summary for a story

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When to use semicolons and when to use em dashes?

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Does my title/opening paragraph grab your attention?

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Describing a character's panic and confusion

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Is it a bad idea to use a culture-specific word in the title of a story?

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Placing similes at the beginning and at the end of a sentence

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Is it strange if a novel starts the first chapter without one of main characters?

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Is it unusual for a flashback to have a very long dialogue?

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Using senses and similes in descriptions

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Do the characters in the following dialogue sound the same?

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Should I remove scenes that I myself find "boring"?

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How to keep the reader engaged in a novel where "not much happens"?

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Is it a bad practice to occasionally add first-person narrative to third-person narrative?

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Deciding whether to use a dialogue tag or an action tag in a dialogue

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Writing a novel which has the same structure and a particular theme in each chapter

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Is going 'off-topic' a sign of bad dialogue?

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Level of detail in description of character checking the news

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How to improve the ending of this short story (final scene + flashback)

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How to effectively jump from one period of time to another in a short story?

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Title Choice: "The Girl [Without/Who Didn't Have] A Soul"

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Is it a bad idea to have all the action in the beginning and all the dialogue in the end?

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Tips for describing features of unusual place that I often visit

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How to improve the ending of my short novel (mostly dialogue)?

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Any suggestions to improve these three introductory paragraphs of a novel I'm writing (e.g. writing style, description and flow)?

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How to convey the fact that the person that I'm talking to, is "she" but from the past?

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What's the proper way of formatting writing from a character in a novel?

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Are there any techniques to arrange or list ideas from a short text?

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What to do if I end up confused by my own plot because of 'trying to be original' or 'trying to make the story more deep'?

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Pros ans cons of writing a plot based on the present and past tense (character's point of view)?

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How to improve this introductory paragraph (to fit writing standards and grab the reader's attention)?

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Simple way/techniques of arranging all the ideas and scenes in a plot?

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How to make easy and fast money selling a short book (which is available for download)?

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