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Posts by celtschk‭

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Q&A mice don't tap and tablet-users don't click: what word can I use for all audiences instead?

I just looked up what Borland wrote in their user manual of the Turbo Pascal UI back when using a mouse was optional and the UI could be operated also by keyboard (you don't click on the keyboard e...

posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Meta Spammers have found this site!

I just noticed that when you go to the users page and select the age tab, the start of the list is dominated by user names that are obvious spam. While they are not very effective because few peop...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A How to write an introverted main character with accidental charisma

That he has no ambitions to heroism or adventure doesn't mean he has no ambitions at all. It just means that his ambitions are of a different type. Maybe he has the ambition to learn everything he ...

posted 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Meta Suggestion - clearly mark Meta questions in the Hot Questions box

In the hot questions, it is not clear what are actual questions and what are Meta questions (well, if the title starts with Suggestion, it probably is meta). It would be nice if Meta questions woul...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Letting a (secondary) antagonist leave mid story - Should it be avoided?

One way to make the leaving of that secondary antagonist satisfying could be if it gives a problem for the protagonist. Now how could an antagonist leaving be a problem? Well, it is a problem if th...

posted 5y ago by celtschk‭

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Challenges Short short story

John had a short life. Right after he was born, he was running out of characters

posted 2mo ago by celtschk‭

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Meta Why can't I upvote this answer?

I tried to upvote this answer but my vote doesn't seem to register. Maybe it is because it is owned by System, but then, there are other answers owned by System that already have upvotes. Note that...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Is there a formula for creating stakes?

Your problem could be summarized as follows: If your protagonist's life is really totally perfect in any way, he has no reason to change anything. End of story. So if you want to have a story, ...

posted 5y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A What can a novel do that film and TV cannot?

You've already gotten quite a few good answers, but there's one important point that I didn't see in any of them: You can easily omit visual and aural details. If you don't want to tell the age o...

posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Meta Upvoting imported comment - wait for user to join?

Will upvotes on imported posts be included in the authors reputation when that user joins? Or does it make sense to wait with upvoting until the user actually joined?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A Design changes are a-coming!

I just noticed a small problem: When editing a comment, you get a miniscule comment box. Fortunately it can be resized.

posted 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A What is the term for an accessible character that knows nothing?

TVTropes calls such a character The Watson: The Watson is the character whose job it is to ask the same questions the audience must be asking and let other characters explain what's going on. ...

posted 11y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Challenges Writing challenge: Sentence free

Sentence free, meaning no sentence, possible? Depending on definition, probably. This text, sentence free? No wrong answers. Well, in that case, sentence free or not irrelevant. Or not? Anyway, wi...

posted 6mo ago by celtschk‭

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Meta Old meta questions are incorrectly marked as imported in the user profile

I just noticed that some of my old meta questions here are marked as imported on my profile page, although they clearly weren't (they were meta questions about this site; there's no reason why I wo...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Meta Finishing link entry with enter sends the post instead

I just got caught by something I consider a bug: I wanted to link to a web site, and used the link button above the entry box to do so. After I finished entering (or rather, pasting) the link into ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A What do you do if you enjoy writing, but have no ideas?

Maybe you could write about the problem of coming up with ideas? Write a story about someone who has troubles coming up with ideas. Think about which solutions he might try, and how those solutions...

posted 11y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Meta Move old writing challenges to writing challenge category?

I've been away for some time (for personal reasons), and noticed that we now have a category “writing challenges”. Now there are some old challenges in Meta which predate that category, but IMHO wo...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Time measures in fantasy worlds

One additional thought: Maybe the way you give time should depend on whether it is done by the narrator or by one of the protagonists. The narrator is telling the story to a present-day reader, so...

posted 11y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A Alien checking, by making questions

One thing they could do is to ask questions about his home worlds with the intention to find inconsistencies that prove he's making things up. That would as a side effect also make the reader famil...

posted 10y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to make the reader think that the *character's* logic is flawed instead of the author's?

Usually the narrator knows about the thoughts. And the narrator will know that the thoughts are illogical, and thus can distance himself/herself from the thoughts. Of course that only works if the ...

posted 6y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A Writing Challenge: A Long Way Home - Feb 1 2020 - Feb 22 2020

The Earth was not at its place. That was of course impossible. But Alice had checked all the data several times, and the space ship definitely was at the place where the Earth should be. Except t...

posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 2y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A How to format dialogue with an embedded long monologue

One thing I would think about is: Are those things the other person says really unnecessary? They actually might give the reader valuable background information about what the other person already ...

posted 11y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Meta Interface for showing changes in the history is not very discoverable

It took me quite a while to discover how to see what was changed in an edit. Some visual clue on how to get it would be a good idea, I think.

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  edited 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Suggestion: Support edit comments

As far as I can tell, there is no way to explain the edit you do. There is no field to enter one. Also, in my latest edit, I tried to supply one as HTML comment in my post, but in the edit histor...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A "Dear Stack Exchange, I am very disappointed in you" - How to construct a strong opening line in a letter?

I think there are two important aspects that you should make clear: That you indeed do care about the issue. Your letter is not just a rant, you sincerely are concerned about the damage the issue...

posted 5y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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