Activity for hildredâ€
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| Edit | Post #12863 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: Using a foreign language that uses a different written alphabet Outside of scholarly of scholarly work the norm would be to transliterate. Now I am all for violating norms, but it is riskier, more work and you have to know what you are doing. if you can pull it off It would be praiseworthy, but it is not appropriate to all situations, particularly in that violati... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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A: First-time author...can I publish in English in Mexico? As I am not in mexico, I will look at this from a slightly more abstract position. First to note In my hometown I only know of one publisher, but my dad retired from that after publishing only one book. Chances are that you will not find a publisher in your home town. Most of the ones I know of are ... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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A: Creative writing exercises for engineers First you need to remember that people are different. Some are most creative without rules, some are most creative when breaking rules and some are most creative within rules. The best creative engineers fall in the last category. The rules that an engineer are bound by are physical (gravity, physic... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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A: What factors in fiction arouse readers' expectations? There is a difference between unresolved conflict and unaddressed conflict. Unresolved conflict pushes a story, unaddressed conflict drags the story. Both use energy (both the author's and the reader's). You want the level of total conflict to be high enough to fit the story without dragging the stor... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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A: Why do writers use "said" instead of "asked" when someone asks a question? In this case he wasn't expecting an answer. Gandalf, that is. (more) |
— | almost 11 years ago |
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A: How does DRM impact the sales of eBooks? I am a bibliophil. I can easily spend a couple hundred dollars in a book store, and have done so many times. I often buy books online that I can not find locally, again hundreds of dollars. I also have e-reader and have lots of e-books. Not one has drm. If it has drm I won't buy it. Kris longknife, g... (more) |
— | almost 11 years ago |
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A: Humor in a fantasy setting I think the paladin and the cleric should be madly in love with each other, and keep trying to convert the other to their religion so they can get married. This gives you a great time to call someone a heretic during lovers quarrels. This can be made funnier if the religions are closely related like ... (more) |
— | almost 11 years ago |
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tools for writing scripts It has been a long time since I last tried to write a play, and I hated it, not the play (which became a short story), but writing one. The word processors made working with script layout a pain, and I detested marking which character was speaking. I still prefer prose and poetry, but I was wondering... (more) |
— | about 11 years ago |