Lauren Ipsum‭

If you want to unify the voices: Get a tough editor. Explain to him/her that you have two authors and you want to standardize their voices. You might pick a passage or a chapter which particularly...

posted 13y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

The issue with learning a language is that you need to walk before you can run. You need the simple, repetitive exercises so you can learn the building blocks of the language. In high school Fren...

posted 5y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭

Let's say I'm writing a sci-fi novel. I want to use a word which another writer has coined, which has become well-recognized outside the original book, for the name of an alien species in my story....

4 answers  ·  posted 13y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Amadeus‭

I've seen this construction quite a bit, although only in the last five years or so. It's a transcription of a way of speaking, where the speaker is emphasizing something by using a verbal full sto...

1 answer  ·  posted 12y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Whether you put the acronym or the name first depends on how everyone refers to it. If it's almost always an acronym, but you have to explain it on first reference, write it as: New drugs to tr...

posted 7y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

I edit novels (among other works). I was having a discussion with someone (not an editor) who didn't understand my technique. What I do is read through the document, and the moment something occu...

1 answer  ·  posted 14y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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posted 8y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

If you have supporters following your blog, you might be able to argue that you have an audience who will buy your writing. However, to be meaningful to an agent and therefore a publisher, your au...

posted 8y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Any time you get two or more people in a group (or a family) with the same name, they are almost immediately given a nickname or some extra appellation so everyone knows who is being talked about. ...

posted 5y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Monica is on the right track, but I'd push it more. If he's howling the name of his murdered wife in his grief, he's not aware of anything outside that grief. I would actually not show the husban...

posted 10y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

My thought is, if you can remove the text (which you've bolded) and it still makes sense — that is, if there is no other reasonable interpretation — you can take it out. Can Cath reasonably cover ...

posted 10y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Short answer: You can't. But you shouldn't worry about it. Good textbooks get updated. They are refreshed and corrected, new material is added, things are changed to reflect reader/student/teacher...

posted 10y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

First of all, "withheld" means "held something back from," as in "she withheld the cookies from her child" or "he withheld the information from Congress." So it doesn't mean "hold up to" a big stor...

posted 10y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

The key is in what "as were the others" refers back to. It's not just "the chairs." It's not even that "the chairs were upside-down." It's that "the other chairs" are in a specific state of being...

posted 10y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

If you have a WordPress site, you should be able to create various users who have different levels of permission. Give your two or three trusted friends their own usernames with Admin or Editor per...

posted 9y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭