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Writing challenge #4: Cats and dogs Writing challenge #4 August 2, 2020 This is the fourth writing challenge on Writing Codidact. The previous one was Something new for July. The challenge for August is cats and dogs. Entries should somehow prominently feature cats, dogs, or both. Wild, even ordinarily wild but captive,... (more) |
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A: How to train readers in Argot or Slang I would argue that you shouldn't, nor should your writing require training the reader in the first place. At least not in a work of fiction. At its heart, fiction is about telling a story. (Which may or may not be intended only as entertainment.) More generally, any kind of writing is ultimatel... (more) |
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Hi Prahara. I edited the titles of both your questions to try to better summarize each question, as well as clearly set them apart. If you feel that my edits changed your intent in any way, by all means do feel free to edit further. (more) |
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Even in a more traditional `for(int i=0; i<N; i++) {}` for some value `N`, unless interrupted (e.g. by `break;`), the loop will run for `N` iterations with `i` counting from 0 through N-1 inclusive; but nothing about the language actually dictates this construct, and it is equally valid (though non-i... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #275866 |
If we're going down that route, might as well point out that C-derived languages typically (if not always) use a loop termination *condition*, which may or may not have anything to do with a loop counter variable. For example, `for(int i=0; getch() != EOF; i++) {}` will terminate not when `i` reaches... (more) |
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A: Is page range inclusive or exclusive? As already stated, page ranges would typically be inclusive. There's actually an even more illustrative example to show why this is what readers would probably expect. Suppose the text you're citing starts at the bottom of page 1, takes up the entirety of page 2, and finishes with a single line... (more) |
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This was very helpful. Thank you. (more) |
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This was very helpful. Thank you. (more) |
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Another example to draw inspiration from could be Spock's attempts at using profanity in *Star Trek: The Voyage Home*. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #75049 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: How can I make a character sound condescending? You should consider what makes someone sound condescending. I know – that's pretty much what you're already asking. But I really think it's what's at the heart of your question. One aspect of people talking to them that a lot of people (especially adults, but perhaps surprisingly, also no... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #75027 |
You can even do away with a few more, if we allow adding a few words here and there. Just as one example, if before "I’m not going back through these accursed demon woods." we would insert something like "Don't be silly, Steve.", that can both tell us at least who that person is talking *to*, and als... (more) |
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A: What new data should we import from SE? I'm honestly inclined to agree that what Writing Codidact needs isn't really another data import. It's to get actual people to come here, read, contribute, and remain. People who have posted on Writing SE are by no means legally prevented from posting that same content here, since it's still their... (more) |
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Whatever you do, or whatever term you end up using, please don't fall into what looks like the common trap of thinking that "mobile first" means *desktop* can be an afterthought. (more) |
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I like the idea of being able to indicate (in a standardized form) *why* one thinks that (particularly) an answer is good or bad. This would be one way to do that. It would do much the same thing as comments associated with votes, but aggregate more easily. (more) |
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Regarding edits, a part of the confusion there is probably because there's no visible indication on a post that it's been edited, the way there is on SE. It's in the history, but not on the question/answers page itself. @MonicaCellio (more) |
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How can I make a transition from third person omniscient to first person less jarring for the reader? I'm working on a longish short story (I expect to hit somewhere around 5,000 - 6,000 words by the time I'm through) that starts out in third person omniscient POV, mostly because that allows me to peer into the heads of the various characters while still keeping a reasonable word count. So far, that'... (more) |
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Writing Q&A RSS feed shows Internal Server Error I tried to access the Writing main Q&A RSS feed at https://writing.codidact.com/categories/1/feed.rss (through the Category RSS Feed link at the bottom of https://writing.codidact.com/ and https://writing.codidact.com/categories/1), but that gives a Internal Server Error page. An example error ID ... (more) |
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There's a start date, but do we want to put a last date for "official" (as much as one can use that word in the first place) submissions? Do we submit our entries in answers to this question, or as separate questions under the Challenges category and then link from here? Remember: we don't *have* to ... (more) |
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@Ooker In the published world, that would be considered an endorsement or a blurb. There's nothing inherently wrong with either. However, they are usually clearly separated from the work itself; in a book, they're often back-cover matter, for example. There's some expectation that they are chosen to ... (more) |
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Also mind the fact that abbreviations can have very different meanings in different contexts. For example, if you say to a pilot "using IMC can increase your audience response", they'll wonder what [Instrument Meteorological Conditions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_meteorological_conditio... (more) |
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A: Describing the taste of food I pretty much agree with what's been stated about the examples you gave. Writing, particularly fiction writing, usually focuses on evoking emotions in the reader. We often read fiction because we want to feel something. The emotions felt by the reader can be based on the reader's memories, but the... (more) |
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A: ...and then she held the gun Have you considered doing something like skipping, then describing? Something like (but do consider this first draft quality): > The man kept the gun pointed at her. Jane had trained for years, and knew exactly what to do. Moving swiftly and confidently, she wrestled the gun from his hand. The man ... (more) |
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A: When blogging recipes, how can I support both readers who want the narrative/journey and ones who want the printer-friendly recipe? CSS supports media queries since Level 2, Revision 1. That's from way back in 2011, so any modern web browser should support it. If you're able to specify custom CSS, and apply custom CSS classes to your content, then you can define a CSS class such that the pictures and other ancilliary content is ... (more) |
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A: Can we "borrow" our answers to populate our own websites? You have the legal right to reuse elsewhere what you post on Stack Exchange. It's your content. When posting to SE, you give SE a nonexclusive license to use it, and doing so requires that it's your content to license in the first place; see the terms of use for the details, it's referred to as Subs... (more) |
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