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Comment Post #38360 I'm pretty sure that the age of consent and the age to appear in porn are not always the same. I'm pretty sure that the porn age is 18 throughout the USA, and indeed throughout much of the rest of the world, though I couldn't say exactly how I got that idea, and I'm not sure how to research it.
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almost 5 years ago
Answer A: Are there any established rules for splitting books into parts, chapters, sections etc?
Your first step is to decide on the levels of division. What is a first level division, a second level division, etc.? Once you've done that, you need to decide what to call them. You have many options here, as other answers have shown. The “read in one sitting” sections should probably be called cha...
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over 5 years ago
Answer A: Constructed Language - spelled like it sounds?
You are producing a written work. The look of it matters, as a written document. And a c looks different to a k, and sets off different associations in the mind. Notably, Latin has no k (it has a hard c, as you are proposing), and very few high-register words in English have a k. It is for this reas...
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over 9 years ago
Answer A: How do I write for webcomics?
- Joe Sacco, an excellent comic artist (printed, not web), does sometimes do “illustrated narrative” comics, where there’s quite a bit of writing in narrative form, not dialogue, but the illustration still dominates (so it’s still a comic, not an illustrated novel). - You have to get to the fourth p...
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about 11 years ago
Answer A: Will the word "seek" be associated with the word "sick" if it is present in the title of my book?
You may be confused because of accent: to native English speakers, sick and seek are very distinctive, and could not be confused, but to speakers of many other languages, these two vowels are difficult to distinguish. (See also, ship and sheep, shit and sheet, bitch and beech.) If your book is target...
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about 12 years ago
Answer A: Writing for an Audio book. What are specifics?
Straightforward sentence structure will help. Try listening to some radio drama or the BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime" (a slightly abridged version of a existing novel).
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almost 14 years ago