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: Initial Writing Medium I am curious which is better for a beginning writer (or writer) starting a new story. Pen and paper or the computer? Pen & Paper is a lot more sketchy (like the

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: The ethics of multiple contest submissions So I'm gearing up to write an actual full-length novel and I've decided that the best way to test the mettle of my writing (and make a couple of

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: Is it possible my book could be taken off-line for sale if there is a cease and desist letter? I have written a true story on my experience with some individuals and major corporations.

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: How to avoid repetition How do you avoid too much repetition both in writing and speech? I feel like I'm repeating the same word over and over again when I'm writing or talking to people.

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: Collaborating with Stephen King, but not the original My name is Richard Devine and I am currently working on a collaboration with Stephen King, (obviously NOT the original author himself). We

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: Can anyone recommend a free website builder? We are in the process of creating content to go on a website we are building to promote the launch of our book. We wondered if anyone can recommend

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: Can we enable readers to connect to far future humanity, without pretending they wouldnâ€™t be different? Everything about our culture has changed so dramatically over the course of the last hundred

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: Where can I find examples of nonfiction book proposals? I am looking for complete examples of nonfiction book proposals. Preferably, these would be proposals that resulted in actual published works.

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: Using ideas from other authors without infringing copyright My girlfriend and I want to write a story about science fiction. I'm a fan of Star Wars, and many of the ideas in this universe

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: When opening a book I hear a lot of things about how one should give the name of their character early in the writing setting etc. My question is is it ok not to name your character, not

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: Initial Writing Medium I am curious which is better for a beginning writer (or writer) starting a new story. Pen and paper or the computer? Pen & Paper is a lot more sketchy (like the

: Writing 19th century upperclass English dialog I was recently rereading bits of Pride and Prejudice and the dialog is absolutely brilliant. How can I learn to write dialog that sounds like it

: How many queries do you send to editors a week? How often should a writer be sending queries to establish a consistent flow of work? Currently I have a goal of trying to send out one query

: What's a good writer community that mostly discusses self-publishing? I'm apart of a lot of strong and well read writer communities that mostly discuss traditional means of publishing. However,

: Article submission websites I recently wrote a book about an open source software library. The book is published and available in bookshops, so now marketing has the highest priority. I have

: Do I need to know anything to write a short story that I wouldn't know by studying how to write novels? For a long time now, I've been reading books on how to get the first draft of a

: How can I catch more errors when I proofread? I have a problem where I often proof my own writing and I don't catch all the errors while I am reading through it. I often miss entire words

: The ethics of multiple contest submissions So I'm gearing up to write an actual full-length novel and I've decided that the best way to test the mettle of my writing (and make a couple of

: A comma followed by "and" rule I'm not a native english speaker. I have been taught in school that if you use a comma, you should not use and after it. I went to university, my university

: Is it possible my book could be taken off-line for sale if there is a cease and desist letter? I have written a true story on my experience with some individuals and major corporations.

: How to avoid repetition How do you avoid too much repetition both in writing and speech? I feel like I'm repeating the same word over and over again when I'm writing or talking to people.

: Writer's Notebook How can I use a writer's notebook to improve my writing?

: Collaborating with Stephen King, but not the original My name is Richard Devine and I am currently working on a collaboration with Stephen King, (obviously NOT the original author himself). We

: Can anyone recommend a free website builder? We are in the process of creating content to go on a website we are building to promote the launch of our book. We wondered if anyone can recommend

: This depends heavily on when a story is set, if this story was set in the Victorian era, when upper class people had "upper class" names, the names may have implied class. Sadly, as the

: Can we enable readers to connect to far future humanity, without pretending they wouldnâ€™t be different? Everything about our culture has changed so dramatically over the course of the last hundred

: Where can I find examples of nonfiction book proposals? I am looking for complete examples of nonfiction book proposals. Preferably, these would be proposals that resulted in actual published works.

: Using ideas from other authors without infringing copyright My girlfriend and I want to write a story about science fiction. I'm a fan of Star Wars, and many of the ideas in this universe

: When opening a book I hear a lot of things about how one should give the name of their character early in the writing setting etc. My question is is it ok not to name your character, not

: How to cite (APA style) a whole chapter about a product? I'm currently writing my thesis and one chapter is about a software product. The chapter contains three paragraphs with general information

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