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I am not on the autistic spectrum, and I confess that it is not obvious to me to what extent and in what manner you plan to characterize your character. On the other hand, I think that your problem...
Unless you are writing a police report or a scientific article, where telling the facts is of paramount importance, I fail to see the benefit or purpose of such a description. If the weighting of ...
That formation is called an arch, and it connects what may soon become a stack to the main coastline. The key points of both archs and stacks is that they form by erosion. In contrast, a peninsula...
I am going for a frame challenge. While scanning the question all that I remembered was a big bag of buzz-words, starting with degenerate, barbarians, nomadic, Indo-Iranians, viruses, and further f...
Before you write a reference: check whether their data has a specific licence that would require a specific type of reference (e.g. copying part of the licence for derivative work). check whether...
You don't need to describe the character of the father before hand. You could do that, but that would be irrelevant. In fact the conflict is between the daughter and the killer. In fact, you have...
NaNo editor Strengths: It handles text files. It runs natively in Linux, and it has a prettier interface compared to vim. It can also do spell checking after installing 'spell'. It has a GNU ...
I just stumbled upon https://rhymebrain.com/en Given a word it returns a section that suggests rhymes for related words. They may not synonyms, but it is the only tool I have found so far.
The tropes In my opinion this is a variation of love at first sight, and of engaging conversation. The latter can be summarised by a climatic conversation ending with a love epiphany, and even a m...
Q. How to portray the downfall of [SYSTEM]? A. Show it. There are basically two steps: first some worldbuilding second the writing A note on worldbuilding. I'll just say: before even showing...
Q: Do we write down problems that we address using the scientific method? A: Yes. We dump all this information on static media all the time, both for our benefit and for the benefit of others. We ...
Ask the Hungarian TL;DR Unsurprisingly, this question has a mathematical solution based on the Hungarian algorithm. I have not done the calculations, but I imagine that1 the typical answer is: ...
Still happening... in the past Past tense indicates something that was present, in the past. This also implies that it is not happening any longer, or that the situation has changed, or that we si...
I have been intending to create a book for toddlers with basic scientific notions in it. Most books for this target readership that I have seen present whatever content in the form of a story, quit...
TL;DR No need to worry: when you write a good story, any name sounds great. Good names are as good as the story Good unique names are not easy. In particular, it is not easy to come up with a go...
Don't mention it Show it Suspension of disbelief is a powerful drug. It clouds the mind and prevent the reader from realizing that Quimbonia is not a real country. It's true that it looks and fee...
The narrating voice is, in a sense, having a dialogue with the reader. It would feel odd if the narrator has a different tone and style when telling the story and when talking to other characters i...
Don't tell. Show them It does not matter how many times you tell the reader that something is or that it is not. Telling is so detached from the internal image that readers build about the story t...
This answer follows the APA style, other styles may apply, without loss of generality. A possible workflow to resolve your problem would be, in order: 1. Check if there is a "how to cite" section...
Question: Is there a resource that categorizes existing fiction works by themes based on the authors' demographics (e.g. gender, age, historical period, geographical location, etc...)? For instanc...
In the short passage I am writing, the starting point is that one character is being held at gunpoint, and the end point is that she now holds the gun, having disarmed the opponent. The idea is t...
It is a matter of uniformity. So, in your case, yes: every chapter should "blow the reader away". Chapters are parts of a bigger work where there is an expectation of both continuity of scope and...
[Freely quoting from Office Support. The following text is entirely from the link provided. I do not think I have anything to add to it.] Microsoft Word does not support multiple heading-numbering...
For the recent writing exercise I wanted to tackle Beowulf's character. In the original saga, the hero Beowulf comes to the aid of king Hrothgar to defeat two monsters. Then, after a period of 50 ...
If you wish to deal with specific categories of people who have specific keyword triggers, then you could work your way into a fancy description of your activity: I write titillating stories th...
