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: I have not read it but Soon I Will Be Invincible is the closest I can think of to what you're proposing, other than the excellent short story collection If I Were an Evil Overlord, inspired

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: Editors: Edit on first read, or read and edit on second round? I edit novels (among other works). I was having a discussion with someone (not an editor) who didn't understand my technique.

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: "Turn exposition into ammunition" is shorthand for a writing technique. A quick Google turns up this article: http://michellelipton.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/mckee-on-exposition/ Money quote: â€œConvert

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: How can you build an interactive tone into articles? I was wondering about tone in articles lately. My articles don't tend to be interactive. It feels like most of them are just flowing one

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: You are hitting an interesting question here. I am a native French speaker and I struggled with the same issue when I learnt English. My English writing used to reflect my French upbringing.

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: Depends on what your "limit" is. If you are limiting yourself to one character, then yes: the Harry Potter series is told in third person limited omniscient, and we get Harry's thoughts,

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: Does this sign-up email announcement sound friendly and conversational? This is version 2 of this post The intended audience is from 16-45 m/f, they have given me their email address and will

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: Scrivener is a flexible, powerful writing program from Literature and Latte. Available for the Mac with beta for Windows and Linux. Inexpensive and easy to use, it's packed with features like

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: Scrivener is a flexible, powerful writing program for Mac (Windows version in beta).

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: Reaching goals, standard lengths

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: This tag is used for questions about how the text looks. When to use bold or italics, when text should be indented, when to change spacing, how to handle bulleted text, how to set off a

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: What style suggestions are common for which words are used in hyperlinks? With a purpose of avoiding "More details here" style links that do not provide any information in the link

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: How to determine rates to charge as a freelance writer While I have a few articles published, they were easy fixed rates. Today, however, I've received this email (identifying details removed):

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: If your essay is analytical (and I'm struggling to think of any other reason you'd write an essay about The Great Gatsby) then I'd put it in the present tense. Gatsby loves Daisy, but

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: What's "fair use" for borrowing someone else's invented term? Let's say I'm writing a sci-fi novel. I want to use a word which another writer has coined, which has become well-recognized outside

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: "Streamlined and useful"? Which means punctuation is useless clutter? Ask the legendary guy whose life was saved by Czarina Maria Fyodorovna's misplaced comma. ("Pardon impossible, to be sent

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: I kind of like the idea of starting with #2, but italicized and as its own paragraph — almost like an epigram leading off your essay. In fact, if you can get two or three of these

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: We just addressed this recently, and the excellent answer suggested was guillemets. Â« and Â»

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: A tricky serial semi-colon A serial comma is used to separate a list of items: For breakfast, we had ham, eggs, and toast. A serial semi-colon is used when items in the list have commas:

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: The main person or force opposing the protagonist of the story. Not the "villain," since the protagonist does not have to be "good" or a "hero." The antagonist is whatever is preventing the

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