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| Comment | Post #38653 |
I reopened this question; it is absolutely on topic for writers; the literary mechanisms by which attractions and romances are forged. The vast majority of novels have some sort of romance plot or subplot, it is useful to get views on how to make that realistic. (more) |
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@MarkBaker ... The 3AS is more of a sketch, like normal happy people look roughly like :-) , two eyes a nose and a smile, a guide to a portrait with room for innovation. I can break the rules, but I know when I am breaking the rules and what justifies that, like a complex alien "normal world" or a ty... (more) |
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@MarkBaker Aren't you using analysis to determine a (good) story needs a moment of truth, some choice (moral or otherwise) to change or risk it all for a principle? Isn't the prescription to escalate challenges in Act II analysis? As is the proportionality prescription for increasing the moral distan... (more) |
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@MarkBaker That said, I think the last two paragraphs here are insightful, writing from the middle and adjusting Act I down enough to make the character far from Act III. Even for a discovery writer, it can be a clue to rewrite Act I to further impair the hero. (more) |
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@MarkBaker The 3AS is derived from averages and observations from popular stories; just like Campbell's "Hero's Journey". So *typically* in good stories have an Inciting Incident near the 1/8th mark. Not a rule, but straying far from it would make the work an outlier among good stories -- Or more lik... (more) |
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A: A.I character that talks using pre-scripted messages. How do i make it seem more relatable? I would find this approach highly unrealistic. For one, those reel-to-reel tape drives do not EVER record sound; they are strictly digital. I worked with them extensively in the 1970's; for a time I was one of many people using computers to predict weather and compute flight plans. Speech synthesis f... (more) |
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A: How to convey that the POV character *does not understand* what's said in dialogue? I don't like reading made up languages, I'm going to skip over them anyway. So I seldom write more than a word. My approach is to keep the POV character thinking and analyzing what she can, which I find more realistic. For example, >Carol spoke at length to David in a language I didn't understa... (more) |
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This would be my answer too; I have seen citations in every part, including the abstract, especially when the paper continues some kind of work previously published with some new experiments or studies, or is refuting a claim made in a published work. (more) |
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A: How do I introduce a large cast in an interesting way +1 Mark, Galastel. The one thing I would add is structural. Don't forget that the first 15% of a book, before the Inciting Incident (that introduces the major problem), is where the reader expects to be introduced to the main characters and crew (not necessarily the villains, unless you are writing f... (more) |
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A: What innovative techniques can make a textbook for learning a foreign language "pop"? I imagine, as Lauren says, you need simple sentences, but they don't have to be boring. >Xiao Li lost his trousers. He politely asked his manager if he could return home for more trousers. His manager thought this an excellent idea, and politely informed Xiao Li his employment was terminated. >... (more) |
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A: Pantsing a story? I am a "pantser", or as we PREFER to be called, a Discovery Writer. So is Stephen King. I typically begin a story without knowing the ending, or the plot, or all of the characters. What I do have is a very strong idea of a main character, that my story will be about. She is usually female, and ... (more) |
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@MarkBaker I have a reader that feels the same way. But, if it is part of my female spy's job to seduce men that disgust them for access and information, I feel obliged to show her thoughts and feelings in the act. It is a part of her character I think readers want to be believable. I thought that di... (more) |
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A: Has self-publishing killed the in-person critique group? I have never tried for a group, for some of the "downside" reasons DPT outlined. I have found readers that enjoy my work, and aren't writers but avid fiction consumers. My rule for critique is basically that I need help finding errors or problems, so I am really hoping they can help point at parts th... (more) |
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A: Tools to overcome a block from: "My words are bad" I'll offer a frame challenge here. Personally, I embrace the rewrite, and the deletion. I recently finished a long novel, a year-long project, and by my count, I read the whole thing twenty times. Some parts, like the opening and climax scenes, I probably read fifty times. A story about Hemingway ... (more) |
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A: What determines genre? Another answer (in addition to my old answer): One approach is that your agent/publisher is going to want to know what other book yours is like, specifically "This book will appeal to readers of The Hunger Games", or something like that. (That can be very difficult for me; I have very limited free... (more) |
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@MonicaCellio Still, I'd say just add them with a downvote and leave them open; or stick them in a review queue. SE gets too complicated, it is really just another tab for questions. You could make it just like searching for a tag; questions with negative scores, sorted by how negative. Then we can v... (more) |
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A: How shall we handle our old (imported) content? I'd say if they (Q) were closed before, open them and give them a downvote, and if they get "enough" downvotes (3? 5?) close them. I would like the same for both Q and A. SE had a "review queue", ours would just be downvoted questions. For answers, I'd say any answer with 2+ downvotes should be hi... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39339 |
Copyedit: last paragraph, "grouping of taste, and and agent" is probably "and any agent". (more) |
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A: How I should handle gender-neutral pronouns in technical writing? I would write around it this way: Original: When the user requests for their visit and order to be registered in their account, a checkin is created at POS. Sounds awkward to me. Presuming POS means "Point of Sale" and not "Piece of ..." okay it can't mean that. Is "checkin" "Check in"? Whateve... (more) |
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+1, I can't edit your answer, but "entirely appropriate the the protagonist loses" sets off my OCD bat signal... (more) |
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I agree completely with this; especially the duplicates. If there is a duplicate, recommending the previous question is just an Answer itself, not a disqualifier. Like, "Check out the answers to this question, as well", but still let others answer the question directly. Maybe you are talking about yo... (more) |
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A: Is a lawful good "antagonist" effective? Yes, you can have both. In the Fugitive 1993 film Tommy Lee Jones is a Federal Marshall pursuing wrongly-convicted Harrison Ford, and Tommy Lee is pulling out every legal trick he can to catch Harrison and return him to prison. Harrison is innocent, the audience saw that and knows that. He was fra... (more) |
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@MonicaCellio Understood. (more) |
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@MonicaCellio has done a successful GoFundMe, that might be a way to raise promotional funding; I'd contribute. But I don't think we're ready; being unable to import the scores on Q/A makes us look incomplete; no votes on anything loses all ranking. All questions look the same, all answers look the s... (more) |
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