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: When to accept an editor's rewrite request? So there's an editor who has accepted a story of mine for publication... but he wants me to change the ending. Normally I'm pretty open to editorial

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: Expositing a lack of racial difference I have a story set in a fantasy-Africa, in which the protagonist must make her way from her rural home to a coastal city in order to seek medical treatment

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: Techniques for writing internal monologue I've seen the thoughts of a character written in a few different ways: Example 1: Indirect Ender liked it better, though, when two boys played against

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: You've already read a lot, which is a good thing. I suspect what you're missing at this point is reading to learn: taking something that you love which is well-written, and tearing it apart

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: Waiting for response to full MS About three months ago, an agent that I had queried responded with a request for the full manuscript of the novel that I had written to her about. It's now

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: This depends a lot on the preferences of the individual reader, editor, or teacher. There is nothing inherently wrong with long, elaborate sentences in English, and many of the best writers

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: Editing is the act of improving a piece of writing. Questions with this tag should focus on specific editing techniques or ways to improve editing skills. If you are submitting a piece for

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: Tools include any physical devices or artifacts used in the writing process, as well as software tools (which should additionally include the Software tag). For questions regarding process, methodology,

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: Writing about extreme trauma I've just written a chapter in which one of my protagonists witnesses her entire family massacred during an invasion of her home city. This is obviously an extremely

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: So I finished my novel. Now what do I do? A few days ago I finished the first draft of my current novel project after a few months of work, finishing at 83,212 words. Now what should I

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: Front-matter or back-matter? I'm re-releasing a novella of mine as a self-published ebook shortly, and I'm wondering what to do with the traditional "front matter" of the book: copyright information,

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: How are citations formatted in serious non-fiction (proposals)? Just to be clear, I'm not talking about scholarly work of the sort that might be published by a university press. I'm talking about

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: Best way to emphasise the greenness of the fields in spring in comparison with summer The question arises from this sentence in my story, which was originally written in Hebrew and later translated

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: Overuse of bullet points I collaborate with someone who insists on making every sentence (or two) in a business document into a bullet point, by prefacing it with a bullet. This is typically

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: Space Between Stanzas: Line Breaks or Paragraph Style? Nearly all the information I can find about Standard Manuscript Format for poetry is described in terms of the visual appearance of the

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: I need advice regarding the use of real-world locations in a novel I've written a crime novel, which is on its final draft before seeking publication now. The novel is set in my hometown.

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: Legal and Social effect of story involving real life people I have written a novel based on my past life experiences, however the story involves a few people who might not like the idea of

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: Is there a standard - tab versus blank line? I was taught to leave a blank line between two paragraphs but not indent the first line of the next paragraph. I noticed that many people seem

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: What linguistic features increase the degree of readability? By linguistic features i think of the structure of a sentence, the usage of subclauses, passive or active and such alike. What would

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: Why am I getting so many words per page? (Note that I use OpenOffice but this question should apply to MS Word as well) It's common knowledge that the average word count for a page is around

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