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: Third-person objective in action scene I'm telling a story in third-person objective, the first part being basically an objective description of events around a certain character. I got to a

: What are some popular blogs that accept submissions? Although I maintain a virtually unknown personal blog about videogames, I like the idea of writing blog-style content that can reach a wider,

: Read. Read some more. Read good writing. Read bad writing, but not so much that it begins to seem like good writing. Read technical writing, novels, murder mysteries, blogs, the back of the

: Is there a legitimate step by step guide to getting your book published? I want to write on a computer topic which isn't covered by many existing books out there. What is the process of getting

: How do you write a formal email? What is the web equivalent of formal letters? In this day and age, formal correspondence have all become digital, and it would be helpful to know the proper

: Motivation Reaction Units? In tightening up some chapters, I began to question some of the structure of my chapters. Has anyone ever come across the method of writing scenes as breaking them

: Software for instructional book I saw this question on software for fiction writers. I'm wondering if there is software out there for non-fiction/instructional/research writing? Seems like yWriter

: Citing in a paper: one citation for two paragraphs? I'm writing a short paper on macroeconomics; the professor gave us two tries, I submitted the first try, and now got my feedback. The feedback

: A more effective way of writing this dialogue: I'm translating a story, and there is scene in it where an ex-colleague asks the man who had slapped the female protagonist the reason for his

: Writing style â€” comma, period and re-referring the object of the first sentence again as subject in second sentence Alex look around the room, it's almost empty except few small empty boxes

: Words for Sounds in Screenplay Is there any list of words use in screenplay? Like below. What word I can use to describe the sound of metal gate and a sound of a tower built in metal?

: Demo data in screenshots! What are the best practice? My question is related to best practices of making screenshots for end-user documentation. Particularly, is there universal information for

: Metrics for assessing the persuasiveness of a paper? Are there any known variables to measure, or questions to ask in survey, in order to asses the persuasiveness of a paper? For example,

: Academic writing entails written communication of knowledge for educational purposes. Common examples are peer-reviewed articles for publication in scientific journals, theses (Master, PhD, etc.),

: Writing texts in a scientific or educational setting: peer-reviewed articles, theses, text books, and others.

: Can I use real presidents (past and present) and real companies in a fictional story? I'm not sure if I want to use real people and companies or make up an entirely different world with different

: How can I get my romance through a two-year breakup? My story calls for the main characters to break up for at least two years, before getting back together. (In this particular case, the

: Is it legal to use a parental advisory on a book? I am a motivational speaker and am self publishing a nonfiction book about child abuse. i ahve some inappropriate language in the book and

: Best Tool to Create User Guides We are planning to create a user guide for internal use only. It's 150-page document in Word for a self-developed SW tool. The user guide will require constant

: Can't write, can plan I can plan all sorts of specific aspects in a novel such as characters, locations, and the plot in general, but I struggle to actually write it the way it is in my

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