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Oct 22, 2021: +1

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Avoiding racist tropes in fantasy
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Jun 22, 2021: +1

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Welcome to Writing on Codidact!
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May 12, 2020: +1

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Should I use the words "pyromancy" and "necromancy" even if they don't mean what people think they do?
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Maintaining distance
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Where's the balance between realism and story?
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How shall we handle our old (imported) content?
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In a dialogue, how can I hint that the characters aren't telling the whole truth?
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Rep for Meta questions
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How do I distinguish between self-doubt and objective recognition of fault?
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How can I make "acts of patience" exciting?
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Describing the taste of food
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How do you write short-short nonfiction?
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How do I introduce a large cast in an interesting way
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What makes a character irredeemable?
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How to "Start as close to the end as possible", and why to do so?
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Basing my protagonist on myself
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How to clarify between imagined sensations and "real" fantasy events?
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Subverting the emotional woman and stoic man trope
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As a discovery writer, how do I complete an unfinished novel (which has highly diverged from the original plot ) after a time-gap?
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I feel like most of my characters are the same, what can I do?
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Doubt about the concept of "true (or complex) character"
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How can I portray a character with no fear of death, without them sounding utterly bored?
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Spicing up a moment of peace
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Do I need to change the title of my book because it is similar to the Transformers Universe?
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Compelling story with the world as a villain
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Does writing regular diary entries count as writing practice?
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What's the point of writing that I know will never be used or read?
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English - Acceptable use of parentheses in an author's name
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Synopsis for a village full of characters
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What is a good way to come up with original world building ideas?
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In a script how can I signal who's winning the argument?
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The seven story archetypes. Are they truly all of them?
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Writing Longer Flashbacks
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Do I have to mention my main character's age?
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How important are the author's mood and feelings for writing a story?
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How to tell readers that I know my story is factually incorrect?
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Is it okay for a chapter's POV to shift as it progresses?
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How do I apply Hemingway's dialogue techniques to my own writing?
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How can I portray a resentful character without making them overtly angry?
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Can a successful book series let the bad guy win?
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How do I present a future free of gender stereotypes without being jarring or overpowering the narrative?
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Why am I getting a strange double quote (“) in Open Office instead of the ordinary one (")?
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Is a lack of character descriptions a problem?
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How do I write "Show, Don't Tell" as a person with Asperger Syndrome?
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20 Minutes into the Future - problem with setting the period
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The unknown and unexplained in science fiction
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Famous mistranslations - correct them?
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Turning away from the 3-act structure - what guides my pacing now?
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Using substitution ciphers to generate new alphabets in a novel
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Introducing a character in the third act?
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Writing in a Christian voice
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How to write cleanly even if my character uses expletive language?
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What challenges are there in writing a fantasy cookbook?
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What to call a nameless character in a 3rd person narrative?
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Help! My Character is too much for her story!
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Is there a way to break genre expectations successfully?
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End-of-line hyphenation - how should it be used?
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Should we avoid writing fiction about historical events without extensive research?
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Every character has a name - does this lead to too many named characters?
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Should I include an appendix to reference words of an in-universe language for a fantasy novel?
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Write for an audience or find an audience for your writing?
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How does one write from a minority culture? A question on cultural references
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The English language, if England had a dictatorship
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Writing dialogues for characters whose first language is not English
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How to write painful torture scenes without being over-the-top
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What are the things to consider when writing a sequel to a novel from another author?
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How can I portray body horror and still be sensitive to people with disabilities?
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Semicolon or better prose?
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Is bigotry always necessary in a story?
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Writing a fiction novel with poetic verses and handling dialogues
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How to get my characters' emotions out of the way so I can get on with the plot?
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Is there a way to know if a metaphor is bad or not?
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Creating a fairytale for adults
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How much description is too much?
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Is it time to start closing up my novel?
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Re-reading and making changes to current work that makes everything worse?
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A question on determining audience
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Could I have some characters reveal more internal monologue than others?
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How to write a memorial plaque?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of setting a story in a made up country, compared to a real one?
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The relationship between the MC's Goal and the climax
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Little disjointed scenes
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How to present an alien culture with different morals, without it coming across as savage?
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Could the cast of my book be more unique?
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Is my story "too diverse"?
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Not projecting myself onto my characters
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What keeps most authors writing after receiving multiple rejections?
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How can you humanize infanticide of the evil-tainted?
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Running four parallel stories
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Should the name of a mythological creature be capitalized?
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How to stylize notes/book-passages being read inside my story?
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Citing and typos
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How can a main character in a visual novel attract people of different personalities besides having a single trait each of them is attracted to?
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My kid's first story
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How to avoid basing an autistic character too much upon myself?
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Coining words - when and how?
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Noble styles and forms of address
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How many times should I mention a character's name when the interactions are among the same sex?
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How to introduce a large amount of characters in the first chapter?
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Changing perspectives
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Is it okay to use a lot of exclamation marks?
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Using the grammatically correct way or the casual way to express the same idea in another language?
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How long should I mention an injured character’s pain?
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Authorship implications of presenting one’s manuscript as an older one in the prologue
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Are reactive protagonists inherently a bad thing?
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How do i properly name a fictional species and describe it?
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Early investment in a character who "learns better"
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Is my story pacing too fast?
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Is there a practical time limit on a children's book meant to be read out loud?
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Can there be written narratives (not movies or films, but books) without any narrator?
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How should I deal with travel time in fantasy?
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Averting Protagonist-Centred Morality
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Will my one sentence prologue work?
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How do you escalate a story's plot after killing the Big Bad?
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What kind of protagonist or writing style is Jack Sparrow?
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Can the prologue's POV be different from the POV of main story?
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Interviewing a person for a character
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How to use professional jargon when writing fiction?
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How do I design characters for an open-ended series?
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How far apart can the dots be?
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Proper handling of "sophisticated" English usage
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Describing a strong sexual attraction (on first sight)
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How to describe a mythological creature that English has no vocabulary for?
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Can dream reveals make good climaxes for a POV’s internal struggle?
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Invoking Deliberate Values Dissonance
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"Stealing" jokes
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What makes "thrilling" writing?
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Are there any general rules or guidelines for using newly coined word(s) or neologism?
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Is my story too similar to an existing published work?
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What about pictures in a story book
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Writing a short story set in a place I’ve never been
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How many characters are too many?
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Is it important to describe every character of the storyline?
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Researching Future Technology for a Science Fiction Novel
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Is it a flaw if a book is readable, flows well, and gets the point across, BUT you can tell that the author is a non-native?
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"Too modern" words
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Occupational Hazards to being a Full-Time Writer
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Is my book too similar to Harry Potter?
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How to write dialogue for someone who is intelligent but barely speaks the language?
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Dead as a point-of-view, how can you write first person narrative if that person is dead?
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How to make characters more than the words on the page?
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Is it possible to pass down the privilege for choosing articles from teachers to students for school magazine?
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Making an existential horror work without really showing it
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What should my redraft phase entail?
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Death as person - A funny part of the story? Or serious stuff?
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I have characters, no plot
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Is mild sexualization of minors allowed in writing?
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How does one include non-Latin-based script in an overall English work?
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How to revise your "setting bible"
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What is the structure and important points to cover in a first chapter?
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Should I focus on ideas which the market enjoys, or ideas which I enjoy?
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Should I take breaks, or focus harder?
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Cutting down story length without leaving out locations
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Is it important to research the topic of your novel/story before writing it?
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How to organically and believably introduce the tools and skills necessary to survive after an apocalypse?
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How to go from an opening idea to a complete plot?
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Arousing Emotion in Readers
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Mixing humour with horror in fiction
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Do writers write philosophical essays?
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Positive Transformation in the Arc of a Story
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Need a bit of verse in my prose
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Characters that take on a life of their own
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How to differentiate narration and thoughts in the first person POV?
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How to refer to a character who doesn't know her name?
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Alternative sources of drama/tension when the setting is low-violence
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How much can I trust my players to remember previous states of the story and not get confused?
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How to write a Complete Monster?
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Would a character displaying the opposite of one of their characteristics break immersion?
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How to depict writing from a different time period?
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Do I need to repeat character descriptions of main characters from one book to the next?
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Should foreshadowing be close to the main event?
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Likeable characters with deplorable professions?
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Do writers copy other writers?
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Why would a translator leave comments all over the translation?
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How to plan a short story for a given word count?
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Trying to figure out the correct type punctuation for dialogues
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Describing something that doesn't exist
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What happens when you translate a quotation?
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How to write two seemingly different characters that are actually the same person?
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How to relate stormy weather to sadness?
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No time to deal with emotional trauma
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"Calm" vs Adventurous Main Protagonist
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Creative license to invent a sibling to a historical figure?
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Dialog problems with a character with only one name?
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What pronoun should a hermaphrodite species use?
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Where's the middle ground between genre conventions and originality?
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Sympathetic Racist
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Is it a deus ex machina if the alternative is illogical?
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Listing character traits
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How to write a 'fish out of water' character?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages to leaving the narrator unnamed?
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How to write long extracts in a foreign language?
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How do I write an action scene?
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How can I get into the mindset to write?
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How to write from a cat's perspective?
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Spacing out dialogue?
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How to write about Autism and Intellectual Disability?
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How do I improve my knowledge of English well enough to write in it?
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Fan Fiction: a crutch or a good start?
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Describing the taste of food
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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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How to convey the anatomy of a humanoid race?
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How to use special characters in footnote numbering within Word
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Resolving moral conflict
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Recounting events in dialogue
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Can we use other things than single-word verbs in our dialog tags?
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Can we use other things than single-word verbs in our dialog tags?
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