Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Edit | Post #74968 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How can I make a transition from third person omniscient to first person less jarring for the reader? Like this answer, I don't think you need to use first-person to get into a character's head. I want to focus a little more on how to do that in omniscient third-person. An omniscient narrator can get into any character's head, as you said. You want to switch to first-person, maybe to focus ("we'... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74906 |
@aCVn yes, it's the aggregation that makes the idea attractive to me. You can see at a glance what the overall reaction is, and if you want to read the comments you might learn more but you don't have to. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74958 |
Other things that can cause activity are edits and closing/reopening. But yes, there's a bug here and we're trying to characterize it. Sometimes it's right and sometimes it's not. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74906 |
@Mark that's an idea worth exploring. Better to not count them and then decide to (if it's compatible with how they're being used) than do it and then take it away (which could frustrate people). Once we get there at all, I could see experimenting with ways to use that data. Since it would already... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74906 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Accepted Answer? We need to flesh this out, but the idea I have in my head, and that I recall discussing on the forum thread (which I haven't gone back and reread yet), is that in addition to votes we'll allow people to add reactions like "this worked" (and maybe a few others TBD). These would be public, unlike votes... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74875 |
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| Edit | Post #74886 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Sequence of Categories This is now configurable and I've moved Meta to the last position on this site. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74877 |
This is a question about the site, not about writing, so we've moved it to Meta. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74885 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Naming of Categories "Questions" seems better than "Q&A", yes. Not everything on the site will be questions. For example, a site can have a blog or a set of resources. Some sites will have sandboxes, which are proto-questions but not questions anybody should be answering yet. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #38585 |
Post edited: updated link |
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| Comment | Post #74876 |
Obligatory reminder: I'm a *technical* writer; creative writing is more of a stretch for me, unlike most folks here. :-) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74876 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Writing challenge #1: The great outdoors! She traced the delicate lines beneath the green leaf. The new growth felt fragile but tenacious, breaking free of winter's grasp, just like her. Winter? How did she know about winter? Ancestral memory, she guessed; seasons were new to her. She breathed in the scent of buds just opened into flo... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74875 |
Issue created: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/73 (a priority or sequence number is what I suggested too). (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74875 |
Ooh yes, we want the sequence to be controllable somehow. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74857 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Let's restart writing challenges! Mithical has posted the first challenge: the great outdoors! Please join us there. I hope this'll be the first of many. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74846 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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Let's restart writing challenges! The writing challenges we've done in the past were fun and helped us flex our muscles, especially if they nudged us into new types of writing. Let's bring those back! I have created the Challenges category here. I've set the default license to CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which in plain English means it's l... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #74843 |
I saw a question I wanted to answer, so I imported it here the old-fashioned way. This is an experiment. I don't plan to make a habit of this or anything, but it's in keeping with the license. If I could disassociate the question I would, sorry. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74844 |
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| Edit | Post #74844 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How do I deliver a historical plot reveal? If you have placed your clues and foreshadowing well, you can present the final clues and let the reader draw the conclusion. You're aiming for an "oh wait, what? Oh wow..." reaction as the reader draws a conclusion you never spelled out. This is risky; not all readers will draw the conclusion. ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74843 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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How do I deliver a historical plot reveal? This question was asked elsewhere by geneaux and is copied here in accordance with the CC BY-SA 4.0 license there. Right before the climax of my SciFi novel, there's a big reveal about who the bad guys really are and how they influenced the magic system -- throughout history. This reveal will ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39161 |
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| Edit | Post #38868 |
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| Comment | Post #38868 |
I just closed https://writing.codidact.com/questions/39190 as a duplicate of this one. There are more answers there. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39190 | Question closed | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39190 |
Post edited: this doesn't appear to be about academic writing |
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| Edit | Post #74842 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Would I be able to have my characters play "Dungeons and Dragons" in my book? Think about all the fiction you've read that refers in passing to real companies, brands, sports teams, games, and so on. All of those things have trademarked names, yet you can have a character drink a can of Coke while watching the Red Sox play before heading out to Cinemax to see the latest Star ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #37593 | Question reopened | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #38382 | Question reopened | — | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #34630 |
@Liquid, sorry for the off-topic comment but I don't have another way to contact you. You were running writing challenges (opening line, word, theme...) over on SE; would you be interested in restarting them here? If so, could you leave me a comment at https://writing.codidact.com/questions/39558#an... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #37838 |
Yes! Fairly often for me, it is the process of writing an explanation of something that uncovers the gaps in my own understanding of that thing. The mere act of explaining something can push you to learn more about both the subject area and the craft of explaining it (writing, teaching, etc). (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74810 |
Ooh, I hadn't been thinking of access-restricted categories. Interesting idea! I'll need to discuss that with the developers. (If it's visible to registered users only, that should address the search-engine concern.) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74807 |
I agree with that: proactive posts not questions, and use tags to categorize things as applicable (e.g. tools, critique sites/groups, reference materials). (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74807 |
That makes sense. How would you want to structure it? One Q&A per topic with answers suggesting resources, or something like articles (non-question standalone posts that don't have answers) that the community would edit, or something else? We have support for standalone post types coming soon (to ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74801 |
On SE we sometimes had challenges and prompts, for the purpose of engaging the community more and perhaps trying forms we wouldn't otherwise have used. We used meta for this, which wasn't great. The works weren't things we were going to submit elsewhere. Since there was a suggestion to bring back ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #23795 |
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| Edit | Post #74774 |
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| Edit | Post #74769 |
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| Edit | Post #39219 |
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| Comment | Post #74769 |
This is now fixed. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74774 |
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