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Posts by Psicofrenia‭

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Q&A Time measures in fantasy worlds

Once a physics professor told me that we, in daily life, measure distance with time. In fact he is right. If somebody aks - "how far away is the mall?", we answer "It's fifteen minutes away". That ...

posted 11y ago by Psicofrenia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A What's the significance of ancient mythology in literature?

Maybe you are seeing it from the wrong point of view. More than mythology, movies like Matrix and Prometheus deal with our current social values and believes. Neo, the technological messiah, is re...

posted 11y ago by Psicofrenia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A What do you do if you enjoy writing, but have no ideas?

Assuming you want to write non technical stuff, I think the best way is to start writing. I'm not kidding, even without ideas, doing nothing is a GREAT way to never get an idea. Inertia is true to ...

posted 11y ago by Psicofrenia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to convert handwriting into text

The best solution would be OCR Software ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition ) since you can scan your pages and it will understand the handwrite and change them to plain te...

posted 11y ago by Psicofrenia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to tell if a fiction workshopping site protects my rights?

I used to play an online mmorpg game named Popmundo and to be a regular columnist for their game magazine: It's Pop. In the agreement of the game, they specified that the content you create was loc...

posted 11y ago by Psicofrenia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A At what point can a story be considered "erotic"?

I guess there's no answer at all to your question, unless you are writing an erotic story. If you are writing an erotic book, by definition, it's erotic since you will do it that way. Some countri...

posted 11y ago by Psicofrenia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A First person pov with more than one main chars

I really love -- and most of time write in -- first person point of view. The novel I'm writing is somewhat different from what I'm used to. I have four main characters -- I don't see any of them ...

3 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Psicofrenia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is muteness appearing without explicit reason acceptable?

I've seen so many books and movies with similar reasons for people to lose their ability to speak that, in a mere reader point of view, I would have no reason at all to doubt that it could happen. ...

posted 11y ago by Psicofrenia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to format dialogue with an embedded long monologue

I use the following formats for dialogues: dialogue dialogue - describing action (if any) dialogue - describing action (if any) - more dialogue (if any) There is a chapter in my book that is m...

2 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Psicofrenia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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