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Posts by Canina‭

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Q&A Creating Shared Worlds

I worked with a friend on what basically amounted to story-telling in a shared world, but which out of necessity also involved quite a lot of world exploration and some building, because the charac...

posted 12y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to think of a good beginning?

At this point: don't sweat it. You've got ideas, and you need to put something on paper (or the computer) to get yourself started. So take one of those ideas and go with it. Any half-way decent op...

posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Does everything have to be accurate?

I kept coming back to this passage in your question I keep feeling the need to explain everything in hyper detail Please, consider just not to. There's a saying along the lines of that the a...

posted 6y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is Wikipedia Trustworthy?

I like to say that broadly speaking, Wikipedia is mostly trustworthy when statements are cited, but it's never a source. There are several parts to this. Wikipedia is broadly and mostly trustwort...

posted 6y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Housing fictional characters

If you want inspiration on the interior or exterior of a character's home, then there's no reason you can't use homes that are for sale for inspiration. If the problem is simply that those web page...

posted 6y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Software for developing and organizing characters

You may want to have a look at KeepNote. It's open source and runs on a number of different platforms (Windows and Linux packages are available), but it doesn't do everything you want out of the bo...

posted 10y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What content parts should a technical (IT) CV have?

There are probably about as many ways to write a CV as there are people who have ever read or written at least one. You might want to include at least also an e-mail address in the contact details...

posted 12y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A First Chapter for Free?

I would strongly advice against offering a "pre-release sample". Offering a first chapter or two for free to get your readers hooked before they have to pay is a nice touch in my opinion, but provi...

posted 11y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Coming up with names for species in fiction?

When you are writing a story that is set in a fantasy world (maybe our world with just one made-up element, or a completely different world), what is a good way to come up with names for species th...

3 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to derive a storyline from a beginning?

A story is about one or more characters. These need not be human, and they need not necessarily even be living beings (a story about an AI's struggle for equality could make an interesting sci-fi s...

posted 6y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&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, ...

posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&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 yo...

posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to present an alien culture with different morals, without it coming across as savage?

For a fiction story of mine (probably fantasy, if I had to categorize it), I've set it in a world that is in some ways similar to Earth, and in other ways very dissimilar from Earth. In place of ...

7 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Naming my characters

For me, if I can't think of a good name for a character (or for that matter any other world element), I hold off on naming it. Instead, I give it a temporary name. Anything that is reasonably easy ...

posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is writing big facts about a character's background good when first introducing them?

This feels like a classic example of telling rather than showing. Think about it. In both of your examples, the narrator is telling things to the reader. There's no real story going on there; it's...

posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is it ok to reference names of real world people?

Well, first off, like ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere mentioned, make sure to be careful with how you portray a real person. There are many possible ways to mess up, not least of which is libel which was...

posted 6y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Writing what my family may not want to read

I'm inclined to suggest that you go with what DPT posted as a comment. Start writing things down in some manner. If nothing else, record the facts, including the facts about your thoughts, feeling...

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Q&A Techniques for creating a bridge between protagonists from different generations

Another possible alternative might be to have the younger relative find a letter, diary or something like that written by and set aside by the older relative. The text could recount events from the...

posted 10y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Introduce new English dialect

When you introduce something like this, it's good to ask yourself if it would be normal within the context of the world that your story is set in. In this case, would the other characters in your ...

posted 6y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What is the correct location for page numbers in a report?

In the absence of a particular style guide, I would put the page numbers on the top of the page, toward the outer side. When printing single-sided, this means put them in the top right corner. When...

posted 11y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to keep track of characters' location, within a longer narrative?

Looks like I came up with my own approach in the end. At least, nobody seems to have mentioned it. LibreOffice Writer (and probably most other word processors) supports adding comments. They are d...

posted 5y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to keep track of characters' location, within a longer narrative?

I'm currently working on a piece which has characters coming and going. Basically, sometimes a side character is near the main (also point-of-view) character, and sometimes that same side character...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What is the best way to avoid plagiarism when importing information from a source?

The best way to avoid plagiarising content is by avoiding plagiarising content. Now, as obvious as that probably sounds when stated like that, bear with me for a second before you hit the downvote...

posted 8y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What symbols are used after difficult words in a text to refer a reader to a glossary for a definition?

If you can live with it not being after the word, my dead-trees encyclopedia which was written long before web 2.0 was all the hype uses something like the form ►someword (that's U+25BA from the Ge...

posted 10y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Units to use in travelogue-book (time, weight, temperature, distance, etc)

The simple solution is to use in writing whatever units are most appropriate at that specific spot in the text (probably with a heavy overweight toward the units the reader will be accustomed to, s...

posted 10y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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