Activity for Monica Cellio
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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 | — | over 6 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 w... (more) |
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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 | — | over 6 years ago |
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Post edited: this doesn't appear to be about academic writing |
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| Edit | Post #74842 | Initial revision | — | over 6 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 S... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #37593 | Question reopened | — | over 6 years ago |
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| 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/3955... (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 ... (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 b... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #74769 |
This is now fixed. (more) |
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Post edited: updated for new UI; categories are more discoverable now |
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| Edit | Post #39197 | Question reopened | — | over 6 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39197 |
On SE, this question was closed as a duplicate of https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/18591/is-it-okay-to-publish-a-book-at-a-young-age. However, something seems to have gone wrong with the import of that question here, possibly because it involves deleted users. I'm going to reopen thi... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #74774 | Initial revision | — | over 6 years ago |
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Shall we showcase some of our fiction, poetry, and other work? You might have noticed the new "categories" feature on this site. I mean this: screenshot of categories tabs What are categories? Categories are types of content -- main Q&A and Meta are the two that all sites share, but the feature allows sites to build other things too -- blogs, questio... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39580 |
[Trust levels](https://github.com/codidact/docs/wiki/User-Privileges) will tie privileges to activity, but I suspect @Mark is looking for something a little more visible. To whit: instead of showing a rep number, which doesn't actually tell you whether this person has a few popular posts, a zilli... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39575 | Initial revision | — | over 6 years ago |
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A: Is there any popular wisdom on the word "seem"? Your example is first-person narration in the past tense. That is, your narrator is reporting events that previously happened. At the time of the events, the narrator thought the walls were moving -- no "seemed" about it. But at the time of the narration, the narrator (presumably) realizes t... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39572 |
@Ooker using someone else's reputation to promote your work without asking first is likely to annoy the person. I mean, it's one thing if you tweet "hey, look at this cool comment I got" or the like, but for less-spontaneous promotion, I would *strongly* urge you to ask first and be gracious if ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39219 |
Post edited: updated for change in strategy |
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| Edit | Post #39572 | Initial revision | — | over 6 years ago |
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A: How to prove that my blog is just not average? Assertions about quality from the creator of a work, whether it's a blog, a novel, a video, a podcast, or anything else, are not convincing because of the conflict of interest. Even if your work is the greatest thing since sliced bread, you saying it undermines the claim, because lots of people ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39559 |
Ooh, I like that idea. When we have categories (let me ping the devs to find out how soon we can have that), then we could have a dedicated place to post our own writing, e.g. short stories, and the act of writing them would probably also generate main-site Q&A. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39559 | Initial revision | — | over 6 years ago |
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A: Have we ground to a halt? I think your assessment is correct: we have lots of people here to answer, but we aren't seeing many new questions. Inertia is keeping the new questions mostly on SE. I, too, have been going through the lottery tab, casting votes and looking for things I can add useful answers to, but we need n... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39549 | Initial revision | — | over 6 years ago |
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A: There is no accept button? QPixel doesn't have an "accept" button, no. QPixel is a work in progress so it doesn't have everything SE has. QPixel is also a path toward Codidact, and Codidact won't have an "accept" button either. Why not? Which answer the asker of the question likes best isn't particularly signific... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39525 |
@xtal it got fixed between my post and your comment. I'll edit. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39525 | Initial revision | — | over 6 years ago |
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A: Design changes are a-coming! Edit: fixed. The font face and size make posts too hard to read (and also, I'm now discovering, to compose). The current font face is vertically "squashed"; this is not the Arial or similar that we used to have. This face is harder to read, especially when combined with: The body text s... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39524 |
Test comment to confirm bug report. Confirmed! (more) |
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