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Jul 22, 2023: +1

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What can a novel do that film and TV cannot?
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Feb 18, 2022: +1

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Replacing Amazon's ISBNs
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What can a novel do that film and TV cannot?
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Mar 29, 2021: +1

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Referring to different instances of the same character in time travel
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Nov 25, 2020: +1

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What can a novel do that film and TV cannot?
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Nov 8, 2020: +2

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What can a novel do that film and TV cannot?
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What is a good way to foreshadow that magic is actually very advanced technology?
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What language shall they sing in?
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Is it the right call to title my romance a 'legend'?
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Apr 30, 2020: +155

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Writing about real people - not giving offence
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How to identify whether a publisher is genuine or not?
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Correct way of Citing References in a writing a Non-Fiction book?
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How much should I pay the copyright holder for the right to translate a book and sell copies?
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What makes an ending "happy"?
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Can I include personal experiences in nonfiction?
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Should I stick with American terminology in my English set young adult book?
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Is it confusing to name a chapter after a non-POV character?
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My scenes seem too fast
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What's the point of writing that I know will never be used or read?
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Technical term for written dialogue that mimics the speaker's "sound"?
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How can I Include a verbatim passage in my fiction without plagiarizing it?
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Self-Publishing Chapters
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How important are the author's mood and feelings for writing a story?
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How to not confuse readers with simultaneous events?
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What is a self expression article called?
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1st person addressing a narrator
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Referring to different instances of the same character in time travel
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Is it stylistically sound to use onomatopoeic words?
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What can a novel do that film and TV cannot?
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Are there advantages in writing by hand over typing out a story?
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What is the art of designing names?
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How can my story take place on Earth without referring to our existing cities and countries?
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In a stage play, how should the script refer to minor characters whose names are irrelevant?
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How do you transcribe a dialogue when abbreviations are used?
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Should I write in a style that is more conducive to a situation I am describing or write it the way I normally write?
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Should I explain the reasons for gaslighting?
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How much web presence should I have?
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How to trick the reader into thinking they're following a redshirt instead of the protagonist?
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What format should I use when beginning a chapter with the time and location of the events?
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I have a dialogue that I can't write directly. What would be a good alternative?
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How do I write "Show, Don't Tell" as a person with Asperger Syndrome?
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Avoiding cliches when writing gods
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In one book can one narrator be in present and the other in past?
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How to find different meanings behind metaphors used in speech writing?
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Any advice on creating fictional locations in real places when writing historical fiction?
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Who decides how to classify a novel?
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The art of clickbait captions
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Foreign words break spellchecking
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Writing "hahaha" versus describing the laugh
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Can one start the second draft when the first lacks a proper ending?
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How to tell people you write smut/erotica/porn
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Seamlessly glueing an archetypal plot to an existing story
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Can I bring back Planetary Romance as a genre?
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The unknown and unexplained in science fiction
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How to write the action of someone reading in a story? An example, please
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When an imagined world resembles or has similarities with a famous world
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How do I make a contract with multiple authors
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Is it true that a great cover is enough to sell many copies of your book
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Is my book too weird to be published?
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Can someone publish a story that happened to you?
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How to avoid introduction cliches
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How to write Arabic in dialogue for an English piece?
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Protagonist's race is hidden - should I reveal it?
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How to name indistinguishable henchmen in a screenplay?
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How to transition from poetry to song-writing?
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Can the prologue be the backstory of your main character?
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Correct punctuation for showing a character's confusion
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Do I have to pay royalties if I include excerpts from other works?
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Can one be a co-translator of a book, if he does not know the language that the book is translated into?
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Relationship Problems
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Making science for toddlers easy to remember
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Publishing Poetry
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How to compactly explain secondary and tertiary characters without resorting to stereotypes?
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Avoiding the "not like other girls" trope?
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Is it okay to majorly distort historical facts while writing a fiction story?
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How to write character's emotional reactions in a screenplay?
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PoD services that do hardcovers of custom dimensions?
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Writing in a Christian voice
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How can I make a non-linear timeline less confusing?
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How to traditionally publish a fantasy-fiction novel serial in our modern era of publishing without the use of zines?
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What to submit when asked for "sample chapters"?
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MLA: Indirect Citation without quote
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What to call a nameless character in a 3rd person narrative?
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Casually inserting sexual orientation
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Naming things the POV character doesn't know
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How large should photos on my blog be?
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Would publishers accept a title which includes the F-word?
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Fictional races and fictional racism
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Write for an audience or find an audience for your writing?
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What are the best techniques to show a character panicking as it is seen by the POV character?
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Is It Legal to Use Military Insignias of Defunct Nations?
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Sugar-coating a niche genre
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Critique vs nitpicking
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Showing friendship between people of different ranks - maintain formality, or drop it?
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Is time travel science fiction or fantasy?
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Using a different POV just for the opening line
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Protagonist constantly has to have long words explained to her. Will this get tedious?
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How to tell readers your story is a re-imagination of a popular story?
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Are run-on sentences always bad?
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Problems Blending Sci-fi & Traditional Fantasy?
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An LGBT main character, but the book isn't about LGBT issues
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How do you prevent whiplash when transitioning between comedy and tragedy?
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What is dark humor exactly?
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How much description is necessary?
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Multiple Books in a Single Query
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Re-reading and making changes to current work that makes everything worse?
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Describing the face and physiological responses in different languages and peoples
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A question on determining audience
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Is there such a thing as a "cinematographic metaphor" in novels?
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Could I have some characters reveal more internal monologue than others?
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How important is the apocalypse in a post-apocalyptic story?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of copying writing styles?
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Avoiding repetition when there are two unidentified individuals
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Is it redundant to use "billowing winds" and "petulant waves" in the same sentence?
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Is it ok to use "aluminium" in an otherwise American English text?
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How should tv broadcast dialogue be formatted in a story?
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First quarter friends
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How to present an alien culture with different morals, without it coming across as savage?
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Where can a new author sell the first chapter of a book?
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How to end a story without reaching a new status quo?
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Should I start a new paragraph after a dialogue if the action is being taken by a new person?
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How do I make my book longer?
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How and when should I introduce my main character's superpowers?
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Incorporating new people into a critique group
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How to write in a more conversational tone?
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Dystopia that isn't cliche
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Formating of table explanation in email to colleagues
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Library of Congress filing: answering "intended for children or young adults"
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How to cite the place of a conference in Chicago manual of style?
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A Market For Long Narrative Poetry?
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Do I need Permission for Acknowledgements or Reprinting Articles?
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Can I give a lecture about my book without disclosing my real name?
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A handful of gems
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Do I quote the author or artist from a comic? MLA
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Flashforward Tense
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Write an unnerving, yet likable, character (video game)
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Effectively conveying an unreliable narrator
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Secondary Dialogue
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How to describe a horse from the POV of someone who has never seen one?
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How do you keep track of projects/ideas until you have time to write them down?
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What means of publishing yields best reputation in scientific community?
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How best to avoid the appearance of Deus Ex Machina with established character?
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How much should you "guide" your audience with questions?
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Do I need to provide in-text citations in a news article for school?
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When should a supporting character be scrapped?
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How to avoid basing an autistic character too much upon myself?
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How can I make a character who isn't a jerk seem like one?
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Am I using too much exposition here?
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If I use a quote followed by a citation, then a small sentence from the cited material, should I include another citation?
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Early investment in a character who "learns better"
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How to describe movement in zero-G?
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Is my story pacing too fast?
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What is genre, and why should we care?
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What genre my wife is writing?
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Writing about a topic which you don't have personal experience in
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How to give characters a unique voice
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How to research publishers by subject
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How to hide a character's identity from the audience?
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How can a main character learn about a secret event that will take place?
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How long does a first draft have to be if the essay i'm writing is 300 words long?
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How can I describe nervousness?
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How to secure my written work from being stolen or copied before publishing?
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How do I find flaws in a character I'm building?
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Naming a book in a language different from where it would be published: is it good?
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Apr 28, 2020: +2

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Research Paper Summary: How much should be citations versus original thought?
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Apr 23, 2020: +1

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Don't look at what I did there
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English - Acceptable use of parentheses in an author's name
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How do I introduce dark themes?
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Apr 13, 2020: +1

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Is it confusing to name a chapter after a non-POV character?
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What makes an ending "happy"?
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