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: Does my story structure for an ensemble zombie story sound effective? I'm working on a novel about the psychological struggle of 7 characters. It's got an ensemble cast, where every character

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: In writing, genre refers to the classification or categorisation given to a type of work often based on content, style or form. Examples of common genres are crime, science fiction, romance,

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: First of all, there's nothing wrong with the English itself, so I wouldn't change it for that reason. The only reason I can think of that would make it strange is if the meaning conveyed

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: I suspect that what will be interesting depends on your target audience. If you're targeting audiences that are looking to travel somewhere, then they'll probably want to know a bit about the

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: Citing speech and interviews in biographies I am currently writing a biography of a band, and have a question regarding citing quotes, such as from interviews. Is it necessary to cite everything

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: How do I successfully structure a long fiction piece? Iâ€™ve â€˜completedâ€™ three novels â€“ a thriller, a coming-of-age story, and a mystery. Iâ€™ve had expert readers for all three including

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: How do you avoid the problem of a collaborative work having separate voices? I've not done collaborative writing before, but I've read several works, and sometimes the text strikes me as having

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: Is it OK to use a single parenthesis after each number in a list? Several times I've seen lists formatted like this: My parenthetical pet peeves: 1) Referring to a single parenthesis

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: What is the word for the action of selecting an item by a mouse? I am writing a tutorial on how to use a specific web application and I don't know which verbs to use. Shall I use "click"

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: How to quote something twice If I use a quote and then want to explicitly refer to a small part of that quote again, within the same paragraph, do I need to use quotation marks again? Can

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: Punctuation and capitalisation in poetry I'm writing a poem entirely without commas, periods, colons, dashes, emdashes, etc. However, near the end of the poem I name a city and I want to capitalise

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: Assessing what writing skills are missing I recently wrote an answer on Parenting.SE about the process of learning how to read. There are distinct sets of skills that need to be mastered before

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: How to style a film or book title? Let's say I had a character which was looking at a book shelf and I wanted to mention a particular book that they were looking at, let's say it's Lord

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: How to avoid formulaic fictional structures while still using tried and tested techniques? There are several books that provide an excellent breakdown of the elements that make a good story or

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: "Performance" to indicate speed ambigous? I am writing about algorithms in a paper and I wonder how to best express increasing the speed of an algorithm. Is it clear when I write "The performance

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: When is a screenshot really useful in training documentation? Software products evolve more rapidly each day. Technical documentation for those products must also follow their evolution. One of

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: When should I use italics in scientific writing? I noticed that proper nouns, such as names of theorems or techniques are often set in italics in scientific writing but not always. Are there

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: Confusion on inconsistent verb tenses in a magazine article I have an obstacle writing articles that have consistent verb tenses. Generally, I've been told that if I start an article in the

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: How to correctly identify publisher? Sometimes multiple publishers and locations are listed in sequence. For example: PENGUIN CLASSICS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books

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: Any Guide Book - to understand - 1st Person / 2nd Person / All Knowing As part of my self-education in my journey to become a writer / author - I would like to understand in detail - the

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