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: How to choose the title for a tales book? I'm publishing a tales book and I don't have a title for it. It's not for children and it's in spanish. update: These are the titles of the tales:

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: What's Essential In A Combat Scene? I've just been reading a bunch of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books. Although they were the most enjoyable read I'd had in ages I always found myself skimming

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: Yeah, I'm afraid I'm with Dori on this one, as much as it pains me. I tried my own hand at translating something into French a while back. Then I sent it to a publisher-friend. His reply

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: How does one go about successfully getting their movie script, or screen play, into the right hands? How does one go about successfully getting their movie script, or screen play, into the hands

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: Exposition: "As all members of the scientific community know," Dr. Bigpipe said clenching his big pipe between his teeth. "The F'zargh of Multath V has a unique means of camouflage.

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: Can my paragraph use better adjectives and descriptions? I feel my punctuation is all over the place, and the adjectives are not as charming as I think they are. If anyone has watched the

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: Say you write a story about an employee of Best Buy who accidentally kills his girlfriend by pushing her off a cliff whilst the two of them are dancing about like idiots stoned out of their

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: What literary techniques are evident in this quote? What literary techniques are evident in the following quote? I read each bullet scar in the Quai stonework With an eerie familiar feeling,

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: What are widely-used UK-English style guides? In the UK, what are the equivalents to Chicago Manual of Style, the Associated Press style guide, Yahoo, APA, MLA, etc? Most importantly, what are

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: Why do ebooks often mimic the layout of the printed page? I was recently editing a novel destined to be published primarily in e-book form, and made a list of pre-press instructions, to be

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: How could my friend publish his Steve Jobs biography? A friend of mine (no, really!) is well on his way of writing a unofficial/unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs. In my opinion it is a

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: What is a discovery writer? From an answer to this question: How do I successfully structure a long fiction piece? I think I can infer the meaning from the usage but some elaboration would

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: Is Scrivener involved in the editorial process, or is it strictly a writer's development tool? Is there any reason that an editor should know how to use Scrivener? I generally see manuscripts

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: Slow openings: What is it about this Neil Gaiman opening that pulls the reader in? I was blogging about opening lines the other day, and looking for examples. I came across the opening to

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: How to choose the title for a tales book? I'm publishing a tales book and I don't have a title for it. It's not for children and it's in spanish. update: These are the titles of the tales:

: What's Essential In A Combat Scene? I've just been reading a bunch of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books. Although they were the most enjoyable read I'd had in ages I always found myself skimming

: Yeah, I'm afraid I'm with Dori on this one, as much as it pains me. I tried my own hand at translating something into French a while back. Then I sent it to a publisher-friend. His reply

: How does one go about successfully getting their movie script, or screen play, into the right hands? How does one go about successfully getting their movie script, or screen play, into the hands

: Exposition: "As all members of the scientific community know," Dr. Bigpipe said clenching his big pipe between his teeth. "The F'zargh of Multath V has a unique means of camouflage.

: Can my paragraph use better adjectives and descriptions? I feel my punctuation is all over the place, and the adjectives are not as charming as I think they are. If anyone has watched the

: Say you write a story about an employee of Best Buy who accidentally kills his girlfriend by pushing her off a cliff whilst the two of them are dancing about like idiots stoned out of their

: What literary techniques are evident in this quote? What literary techniques are evident in the following quote? I read each bullet scar in the Quai stonework With an eerie familiar feeling,

: What are widely-used UK-English style guides? In the UK, what are the equivalents to Chicago Manual of Style, the Associated Press style guide, Yahoo, APA, MLA, etc? Most importantly, what are

: Why do ebooks often mimic the layout of the printed page? I was recently editing a novel destined to be published primarily in e-book form, and made a list of pre-press instructions, to be

: How could my friend publish his Steve Jobs biography? A friend of mine (no, really!) is well on his way of writing a unofficial/unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs. In my opinion it is a

: What is a discovery writer? From an answer to this question: How do I successfully structure a long fiction piece? I think I can infer the meaning from the usage but some elaboration would

: Is Scrivener involved in the editorial process, or is it strictly a writer's development tool? Is there any reason that an editor should know how to use Scrivener? I generally see manuscripts

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: Slow openings: What is it about this Neil Gaiman opening that pulls the reader in? I was blogging about opening lines the other day, and looking for examples. I came across the opening to

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