Activity for Gabriel Gohâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #3694 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #3064 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: Why do ebooks often mimic the layout of the printed page? Nathan raises an excellent point. WIth scrolling text, you need to put in extra effort to track where you've stopped and where to start reading again. This may not seem like a lot of mental effort, but it's small things like that which tire the reader's "eyes" - a metaphor of course, it's really the ... (more) |
— | over 13 years ago |
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How do you avoid the problem of all the characters in your story sounding the same? There's a common flaw that I can easily detect in amateur writing, (and of course my own) which essentially boils down to all the characters "sounding the same", dialogue-wise anyway. Trying to overcome this problem, however, I find myself going to opposite end of the spectrum, overcompensating, addi... (more) |
— | over 13 years ago |