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: What are good criteria to consider when looking to enroll in an MFA program? When people ask me about what to look for in MFA (Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing) programs, I often draw

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: When I read some interesting passage in a book, I'll sometimes pull out the notepad and copy it down. Gives my fingers good habits. Also, writing longhand on plain paper makes it seem too

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: Is this clearly expressed: "The real power is information" I want to say that information is the real power in the world. I want to say it in one clean (short) sentence. Is the following

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: How Much Exposition is Too Much Exposition I am in the process of figuring out how to write a mostly autobiographical piece (maybe, eventually, novel) about my experiences related to dancing

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: An engineering student wants to write fiction, where to start? I'm a computer engineering student, programmer, avid book lover and have a very vivid (some would say "screwed up") mind. I recently

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: How often to cite sources? I'm writing a 3700-word essay, consisting of two case studies and some explanatory material. I'll be referencing a number of documents as sources for the case studies.

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: How to use His/My/Your permutations in adressing persons I'd like to understand the rationale of when, why and how His/My/Your are used in titles of addressing people. For example, the standard

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: What should I know to better decide which of my names to conceal/abbreviate/elaborate/modify/invent for signing my writing? Having read about how J. K. Rowling names were chosen/created: "Fearing

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: Is the order of appendices according to their references fixed? Is it really necessary to place the appendices in a book in the order in which they are referred to, or is it possible to have

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: Do I correctly utilize my naming adjective concept in this book? In my story THE GOSPEL OF THE RETURN OF A CHRIST THAT WANTS ANSWERS I wanted to evoke a sense of the middle ages in a modern

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: Deciding the setting: real or invented? I'm preparing some material because I have the intention of writing a book. I'd do this in every type of work, but considering that I'm writing Crime

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: Is the ambiguity in my story the salt which makes it tasty or just plain frustrating? Because this story is quite ambiguous in relation to the setting and also the main character's gender,

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: Characters with no names I've got a few short stories going, and I've foregone naming any of my characters. It started because I just didn't have any good names in my head and I was going

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: Peeking through character's mask Normally, I specialize in strong, determined, uncompromising, extroverted protagonists, "If the laws of physics are against us, too bad, they need to be changed."

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: Various flavors for the action "irritate someone"? I would like to get help to apply different flavors to the action "annoy someone". Please consider the below excerpt. Her mother spoke again,

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: How many commas is too many? I find myself often in writing using too many commas, but then going through and editing many of them back out again or restructuring to use full-stops. Is there

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: Dealing with lackluster plot failure So, I wrote the beginning of something about novel-sized. I drafted totally sweet, lovable protagonists in an interesting, original relationship, I placed them

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: What are good criteria to consider when looking to enroll in an MFA program? When people ask me about what to look for in MFA (Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing) programs, I often draw

: Simple. What makes writing emotional is when the author draws on their own emotional experiences. Trying to simulate emotion by reading other authors will not come off as genuine as using first

: EPublishing Conference Proceedings We have an annual conference, and as part of this conference we have a curated collection of papers published. Circulation is pretty minimal, so we are working

: What can I earn as a technical writer or technical editor? I've been a computer programmer for thirty years and an expert in some niches. I was a technical editor before that. I'd like to

: When I read some interesting passage in a book, I'll sometimes pull out the notepad and copy it down. Gives my fingers good habits. Also, writing longhand on plain paper makes it seem too

: Is this clearly expressed: "The real power is information" I want to say that information is the real power in the world. I want to say it in one clean (short) sentence. Is the following

: How Much Exposition is Too Much Exposition I am in the process of figuring out how to write a mostly autobiographical piece (maybe, eventually, novel) about my experiences related to dancing

: An engineering student wants to write fiction, where to start? I'm a computer engineering student, programmer, avid book lover and have a very vivid (some would say "screwed up") mind. I recently

: How often to cite sources? I'm writing a 3700-word essay, consisting of two case studies and some explanatory material. I'll be referencing a number of documents as sources for the case studies.

: How to use His/My/Your permutations in adressing persons I'd like to understand the rationale of when, why and how His/My/Your are used in titles of addressing people. For example, the standard

: What should I know to better decide which of my names to conceal/abbreviate/elaborate/modify/invent for signing my writing? Having read about how J. K. Rowling names were chosen/created: "Fearing

: Is the order of appendices according to their references fixed? Is it really necessary to place the appendices in a book in the order in which they are referred to, or is it possible to have

: Do I correctly utilize my naming adjective concept in this book? In my story THE GOSPEL OF THE RETURN OF A CHRIST THAT WANTS ANSWERS I wanted to evoke a sense of the middle ages in a modern

: Deciding the setting: real or invented? I'm preparing some material because I have the intention of writing a book. I'd do this in every type of work, but considering that I'm writing Crime

: Is the ambiguity in my story the salt which makes it tasty or just plain frustrating? Because this story is quite ambiguous in relation to the setting and also the main character's gender,

: Characters with no names I've got a few short stories going, and I've foregone naming any of my characters. It started because I just didn't have any good names in my head and I was going

: Peeking through character's mask Normally, I specialize in strong, determined, uncompromising, extroverted protagonists, "If the laws of physics are against us, too bad, they need to be changed."

: Various flavors for the action "irritate someone"? I would like to get help to apply different flavors to the action "annoy someone". Please consider the below excerpt. Her mother spoke again,

: How many commas is too many? I find myself often in writing using too many commas, but then going through and editing many of them back out again or restructuring to use full-stops. Is there

: Dealing with lackluster plot failure So, I wrote the beginning of something about novel-sized. I drafted totally sweet, lovable protagonists in an interesting, original relationship, I placed them

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