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The novel I am writing is set in Europe. For the setting, I'd need to find the Latin names of places, e.g. villages and geographical features, in the regions corresponding to modern-day England and...
Years ago I found myself looking at the arrow that was to strike my face. Today I can still recall the chilling horror of the nearly instantaneous realization that it could go through my eye socket...
I imagine that there is a broader issue with the style of such summaries. I'd suggest reading abstracts from articles on the subject. The journal typically imposes a strict limit on the number of w...
Internet is a trove of information. In more than one occasion I've found Khanacademy to be a good place to jump start a subject. https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/quantum-physics I have...
I used to have the same issue. Even if I planned ahead of time, I would read again my previous session and find myself editing it. There were multiple reasons for that. First, in between sessions I...
In scientific academic settings, the original article should be preferred, read and cited, and an effort should be made to do so. It is however acceptable to refer to a more recent one under certai...
If it is a scientific article, or scientific text, then by all means use the most precise term. In this case that would be either Aluminium or Aluminum. Pick the one that you prefer and be consiste...
Yes. Yes. And yes. When I write, my rule of thumb is: if I start wondering whether something is too much, too off, or too something, it probably is. The author is the mind and motor of the story...
If this is your first attempt, then you actually you don't need anything special, just behavioural loops. Even one would suffice. Your character will start as fully circling in one loop. As they ...
As the author, you have full foresight of events to come in the plot. You know in advance which characters will be with your MC, where, why and when. If you decide to write about them it is becau...
Expanding on Cyn's last paragraph. In the case of bootcamp, you can skip it entirely and just give a summary at the end. The important element is making the reader know what all the boot-camp brou...
The simple approach. All you need to agree is what is the status quo at the end of the first part, which, incidentally, will be the status quo at the beginning of the second part. It is like a j...
If the elements are independent sentences, as in your example, then you should use full stops. An example: In the present article we prove that: * our model is correct. * The model by other...
Besides the spelling and specific vocabulary, you could make your character Scottish by making him culturally Scottish. This is not about the way you write his speech, but about the content of what...
The main issue is that you have created a stock villain without depth. You have given him a son in the hope to give him a voice, but there is nothing to voice because they are both just extreme ste...
One key difference between a friendship and love is the sense of longing. You can show a friendly relationship when the two characters are together, but it is in the moments of separation that you...
This is an addition to Cyn's crucial point that the center is the story and not the theme. [...] dehumanization of others through the oppression of mutated humans by a fascist dictatorship Wh...
I think adding more text about an anonymous and irrelevant character would destroy any tension you may have built. You have some anonymous character, who is taken prisoner in the event that MC's pa...
A few suggestions. For starters, I'd put the deadline in the email subject as well (and keep it in the email body too), e.g. Monthly report summary - DEADLINE: 3 March 2018 I'd try to edi...
There are two issues being raised: How to plan character growth? There is nothing to plan. Growth happens under any circumstances (except perhaps coma, hibernation and the likes)! Your MC is ab...
A most unwelcome answer 'Tis too late, said one. Not here, said another. Then silence, or rather Mystery not yet undone. There is an unspoken thought, an obvious sky-ridden star: absolute, ear...
I would check with your department on the standard structure of a thesis. Typically these questions are addressed in the relative documentation. If your thesis includes a methods section, then, by...
One more option is to write them as hypotheticals. "If I had known that..." If I had known what terrifying events were unfolding while I sat in the cafè! Twenty miles from Pittsburgh, on the o...
I imagine that you Master Thesis is about something, which is presented in a consequential manner. I would take the same order in which you describe your work and write the state of the art, point ...
In a first draft characters are where you need them to be, as many times as you desire. When writing the first draft, either I have planned it, and I know already where everybody is, or I haven't ...
