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A: Accusing private figures of crime in print If a newspaper/magazine were to receive information relating about a crime committed by a member of the public and are considering publishing this information, then the section on Privacy in the BBC's Editorial Guidelines would seem to be relevant. Selected excerpts are: > The BBC respects privacy ... (more) |
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A: How do relationships build the main character or plot I heard an ingenious little explanation for why characters always seem to have either a best friend or many strong friends around them. This applies primarily to movies or TV shows but also to books where your point of view (POV) doesn't allow you to get inside your character's head. We all have an ... (more) |
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How to Write a Good Metaphor I struggle with metaphors. My attempts are either so wild that no-one understands them, so lame that they break down really easily or so normal that they are indistinguishable from cliché. I read the answers to this question: What qualities should a good metaphor have? and from it I understand the k... (more) |
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A: How to address family members solely by relationship in dialogue? I have experience of a similar situation - not Chinese or Korean, but Indian. I married into a family that has Indian ancestry but now live in the Caribbean and in addition I have a large number of Indian (Guajarati) friends in Bradford, where I lived for a year or two. There are words in Hindi for ... (more) |
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A: Is a parenthetical reference to a later part of the text redundant in non-fiction writing? Yes - everything in the brackets is redundant. If you were to omit '(we will come to that later)' then the sentence would still have the same effect on the reader's mind - that of making a promise that you must fulfil. This is because the rest of the sentence: 'The response will either be an evasion... (more) |
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A: How to think of a good beginning? If you feel that choosing an opening is the only obstacle to writing a story that will just flow quickly and easily once you have done it, then just write some placeholder text and move onward with the rest of your story. Just write: 'Here is the first sentence of my story.' Then write the other sen... (more) |
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A: How to pitch TV show with a 'hook' when have a complete bible and treatments? Just by coincidence I starting reading a book this morning that could be of interest to you: The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell. I'm only on the first chapter, but it seems to speak to your situation. From what I have read so far: ideas are like viruses - they need a certain set of circumstances... (more) |
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Eliminating the Dash in Prose Writing I have been accused — shock, horror — of using the dash (the one that indicates a three-quarters pause) too much in my fiction. Thing is — I quite like the effect (the space inserted in sentences by the slightly extended pause) it has on my writing and I'm rather reluctant to part with it unless I'm ... (more) |
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Static Scenes that still Move the Story Forward I've just read a tutorial about scenic techniques in novel-writing that recommends that a story should have a rhythm of static scenes and dramatic scenes. Here's an excerpt: > Dramatic scenes are tense and often eventful; something happens – a murder, a car chase, a demand for divorce. But dramatic ... (more) |
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Researching Future Technology for a Science Fiction Novel Because I enjoy reading Science Fiction, I'm thinking of writing a Sci-Fi novel myself. I'm interested in 'hard' (related to the engineering sciences) science fiction with a military bent (think The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell or Old Man's War by John Scalzi), so this will be my genre of choice. How... (more) |
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A: Is it a flaw if a book is readable, flows well, and gets the point across, BUT you can tell that the author is a non-native? If the book is readable, flows well, and gets the point across, but you can tell that the writer is non native, and the reader is interested in the authentic experience and story of such a writer, then no there is nothing there that you can call a flaw. In these cases, the 'flaw' is perceived as bei... (more) |
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