Activity for AmaiKotori
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A: Are there any websites that show you the popularity and regional use of words? Google's Ngram Viewer can be used to show the relative popularity of a word or phrase in its various collections over time, and it does have American and British English corpora. E.g. 'mum' comes in at 0.00001% in the American English corpus in 2000, and 0.00003% in British English, so one can surmi... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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A: Will an unrealistic character be out of place among other realistic ones? It's generally fine for minor characters to be shallow, especially if their impact on a scene is minimal, and putting more effort into your main characters than your side characters is perfectly normal. However, when you say: > Really I just need him to get in the way of my protagonist in minor sit... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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A: Is the genre 'fantasy' still fantasy without magic? Firstly, it's certainly not going to be a 'waste of time' to write the story you want to tell, regardless of which genre it might end up being described as. Fantasy is a very broad genre; any story recognizably set in a world other than our own can easily be described as fantasy if it doesn't focus ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |