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: How deeply should I study the background of a community before writing about it? By "background", I mean the dialects, habits and culture of the community. Also, I wonder if it is even possible

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: Are there some good books about scriptwriting to study? After a little googling I found this: The Complete Book of Scriptwriting What are other good examples?

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: How not to overuse ellipsis? I alwaysâ€¦ feelâ€¦ soâ€¦ expressive when I see this little nicy dots!.. I just can't stop to put them moreâ€¦ and moreâ€¦ and moreâ€¦ Please teach me how to stop!..

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: Is there a resource where I could find myself a checker and critic, or check somebodies else text to exercise? I need a checker and some kind of beta-test editor and critic. Is there a resource

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: Tools for generating characters' names I found this name generator: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com And I'm wondering if maybe there are others? Has anybody found this kind of tool useful? What

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: What books should I read before writing a non-humanoid point of view story? I know there are some great books told by animals: i.e Black Beauty or White Fang. I want to write a good story

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: What is a "Gather" service for? There is this Gather service in the webz. It's been said that this service is for writers. How exactly can it help me as a writer? Cause I didn't get anything

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: As far as I know, each distributor is assigned a certain number of copies they are allowed to sell as preorders. After they sell their allotment, that's it.

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: How do I cite Google Public Data in my bibliography (APA format)? I'm writing a paper which uses an APA6-style bibliography. I'm referring to a graph from Google Public Data. What should my

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: How do I quote a graphic novel? I am writing a paper for a Canadian Literature class, and want to quote portions of one of the graphic novels we studied. Do I quote the written portions

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: Using ACM style, how do I cite an article without a specific author's name? I'm using Mendeley, and trying to cite this article using ACM citation style: Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes

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: Looking for sites that describe minimalist writing for technical content I'm looking for a site or sites that describe minimalist writing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism_(technical_communication)).

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: If not in the prologue/intro, where would a hook be? For many stories I have seen, written or otherwise, a fight or some intimate moment is used to hook the reader. It is done A LOT, if

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: How to make the first lines of my novel attractive and hooking? I am currently writing a FICTION-FANTASY-HORROR novel, and I have only written some pages. I have published the first part of

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: How to Describe a Scene from Video? I'm new to English (three years) and I want help describing this video for my fantasy novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcen0EjmiU. I don't want you

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: Capitalizing "The" in Title Case - Increases Engagement? I regularly write advertisements for a client who insists that capitalizing "the" improves conversion rates (the number of people that click

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: How deeply should I study the background of a community before writing about it? By "background", I mean the dialects, habits and culture of the community. Also, I wonder if it is even possible

: Could I reach the level of good writing style as non-native language speaker? I currently write in Russian, but I think of switching to English to gain more audience and to play with both

: When the second person view is not an uninvited guest? It is very strange to read the narrative from second person, but there are examples! Maybe there are a number of situations which are

: Should I translate my own writings into a second language I also know well? Nabokov was very discouraged when he translated his Lolita into Russian. And he spent half a year on it. So should

: Are there some good books about scriptwriting to study? After a little googling I found this: The Complete Book of Scriptwriting What are other good examples?

: How not to overuse ellipsis? I alwaysâ€¦ feelâ€¦ soâ€¦ expressive when I see this little nicy dots!.. I just can't stop to put them moreâ€¦ and moreâ€¦ and moreâ€¦ Please teach me how to stop!..

: Is there a resource where I could find myself a checker and critic, or check somebodies else text to exercise? I need a checker and some kind of beta-test editor and critic. Is there a resource

: Tools for generating characters' names I found this name generator: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com And I'm wondering if maybe there are others? Has anybody found this kind of tool useful? What

: What books should I read before writing a non-humanoid point of view story? I know there are some great books told by animals: i.e Black Beauty or White Fang. I want to write a good story

: What is a "Gather" service for? There is this Gather service in the webz. It's been said that this service is for writers. How exactly can it help me as a writer? Cause I didn't get anything

: As far as I know, each distributor is assigned a certain number of copies they are allowed to sell as preorders. After they sell their allotment, that's it.

: How do I cite Google Public Data in my bibliography (APA format)? I'm writing a paper which uses an APA6-style bibliography. I'm referring to a graph from Google Public Data. What should my

: How do I quote a graphic novel? I am writing a paper for a Canadian Literature class, and want to quote portions of one of the graphic novels we studied. Do I quote the written portions

: Using ACM style, how do I cite an article without a specific author's name? I'm using Mendeley, and trying to cite this article using ACM citation style: Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes

: Looking for sites that describe minimalist writing for technical content I'm looking for a site or sites that describe minimalist writing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism_(technical_communication)).

: If not in the prologue/intro, where would a hook be? For many stories I have seen, written or otherwise, a fight or some intimate moment is used to hook the reader. It is done A LOT, if

: Alternative word for "she" I am writing about a female person. I noticed most of my sentences start with "she". Is there a way to avoid using this pronoun too many times, and use an alternative

: How to make the first lines of my novel attractive and hooking? I am currently writing a FICTION-FANTASY-HORROR novel, and I have only written some pages. I have published the first part of

: How to Describe a Scene from Video? I'm new to English (three years) and I want help describing this video for my fantasy novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcen0EjmiU. I don't want you

: Capitalizing "The" in Title Case - Increases Engagement? I regularly write advertisements for a client who insists that capitalizing "the" improves conversion rates (the number of people that click

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