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Posts by Mithical‭

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Challenges Writing challenge #1: The great outdoors!

Writing Challenge #1 2020-05-06 Hello folks! Mith here. It was suggested over at Let's restart writing challenges! that we should give writing challenges a spin again, here on Writing.CD this t...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Is writing policy pages in a lighthearted manner harmful in any way?

Recently, I threw together a draft of a policy page about promotional content, with some guidelines on what to keep in mind to avoid spamming. (Incidentally, this is for Codidact itself.) I decided...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Challenges Writing challenge #3: Something new

Writing Challenge #3 July 7, 2020 Welcome to the third installment of Writing.CD's topic challenges! Last time, the challenge was "What the thunder said". The past two challenges have both been fo...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by user‭

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Meta Would a category to publish works or to request feedback be helpful?

Aside from the challenges category, it crossed my mind that it'd be nice to have a place where people can share works for feedback (or just to share). For instance, if I've put together a short sto...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Q&A Is there any benefit when writing out instructions to split it up into lots of little paragraphs, or is it better to leave it in one paragraph?

I was putting together an instruction page (for setting up a game that my business created), which included a whole lot of various pointers, most of which were only a sentence or two long. These ex...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Challenges Writing Challenge #2: What the thunder said

What can I do when the storm arrives? The thunder roaring. Screaming. Shouting. The lightning flashing. Cracking. Burning. Battle waged across the sky. I crouch down. Shrinking. Hiding. Left behin...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Challenges Writing challenge #5: Relaxing

Writing challenge #5 September 4, 2020 Welcome to installment #5 in Writing Codidact's writing challenges! The previous topic was cats and dogs. As we all know, the world's been quite crazy lately...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithrandir24601‭

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Q&A How do I translate into a gendered language where the gender would be a spoiler?

Go with אתה. While not natively Israeli, I am currently living in Israel. And from what I know, speaking the language and seeing what goes on here, when you don't know the gender, it's generally d...

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

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Q&A Are there advantages in writing by hand over typing out a story?

I'm a member of a Discord server for people interested in completing an entire novel during NaNoWriMo (and Camp sessions). At one point, a discussion arose around writing by hand vs. typing out you...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Are more or less details better for details that do not play a role in the story but describe where part of the story takes place?

I'm testreading a novel for somebody I know. It's an adventure novel targeted at teens, with ~60k words. At one point in the first quarter, one of our protagonists comes across some huts. The huts ...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A How should I start to write a flash fiction story?

I recently saw a contest for writing flash fiction - the contest rules were that it had to be under 100 words long. I thought "Hey, that's cool! I'll give it a shot." So I sat down, and tried to s...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Meta Move old writing challenges to writing challenge category?

Done. Moderators have a "change category" tool that allows for moving posts between categories. I just manually moved the two challenges that were on Meta to the Challenges category.

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭

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Meta Minor typo in /help/how-to-ask

Fixed, thank you for the report!

posted 9mo ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A When writing in a school context without ever having been to school, how do I make sure that my story is accurate within school context?

I read a lot of YA fiction, a lot of which happens to take place in schools. Recently, an idea jumped into my head for a YA-ish story and told me that it was going to take place in a school. The i...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Mithical‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Challenges Writing challenge #4: Cats and dogs

CW: animal abuse, animal death "Come on, Rosie!" It's those familiar words that mean it's time for my favorite activity: WALKIES. It's the same phrase that he's used almost every day for the past t...

posted 4y ago by Mithical‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Mithical‭

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