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Posts by prosepraise‭

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Q&A Nanowrimo and typewriting

How about a three ring binder? It would make it easy to insert a new chapter, although it won't solve the issue of needing to make edits. Perhaps you can have list of notes at the beginning for ke...

posted 6y ago by prosepraise‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Multiple continues references in Microsoft office word 2013

According to this page on word.tips.net, this is not possible in Word. There is instead a suggestion to hide the middle references and add a dash: One solution is to select the intermediate r...

posted 6y ago by prosepraise‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to decide which sentence structure is correct?

You've gotten answers picking each sentence -- they all work! It's going to come down to your opinion, which one you think sounds best. To get a better feel for it, I suggest reading each one ou...

posted 7y ago by prosepraise‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Where should I put my tl;dr?

Where to put the a tl;dr or summary is going to vary depending on the piece. For example, an email from I.T. warning about a change will include the most important information and what users need ...

posted 7y ago by prosepraise‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Other than trademarked names, should recipe ingredients in a cookbook be capitalized?

Most ingredients start with a number (1 cup flour), so they don't need to be capitalized, but if the ingredient starts with a letter (Salt to taste), it should be capitalized. See Virginia Tech's...

posted 7y ago by prosepraise‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Leaving out names/pronouns to speed up the flow of a script?

According to Write Right Now, using sentence fragments in scripts is standard. But take a look at any half-competent screenplay and you’ll find it full of clipped sentences, which still make se...

posted 6y ago by prosepraise‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How do you keep a villainous character from being offensive to a particular group?

In addition to what others have said about how to portray the villain, a good way to have a portrayal of a bad character who's a member of a particular group(veterans in this case) without implying...

posted 6y ago by prosepraise‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to make a repeating plot "slice" not annoying

If X gets hurt in a fight, recovers, gets hurt in a new fight, recovers again, etc. that is going to start to get boring. If you want to avoid boring your readers, fights need to have consequences...

posted 6y ago by prosepraise‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is it possible to use version 3 Scrivener documents in both Mac & Windows?

There's also the option to use the Windows Beta version of Scrivener 3. The beta is getting close to release and they're mostly working on bug fixes and the compiler. As mentioned in the linked p...

posted 6y ago by prosepraise‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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