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: Resources for character development I'm weak at building characters. What resources are there to create rich characters? I'm thinking beyond name generators: Quirks, biography, diseases like allergies,

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: How much time do you spend writing one page on average? I'm writing a technical book about one programming technology and would like to compare how much time other authors spend on one page

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: How do I better handle my nameless main character when trying to retain mystery? I have written a short story, and the main character is referred to as "he" right the way through

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: Magazines/Websites Similar To The New Yorker? As everyone here probably knows, The New Yorker is held in high regard for their editorial process and excellent writing. I really appreciate their

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: Strunk and White vs "Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace" by Williams and Colomb I'd like to improve my writing and have been considering getting either The Elements of Style by Strunk and

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: Using uncommon abbreviations Something which I see all the time in (popular) science writing is the use of abbreviations to indicate concepts. For (a made up) example: So when we're dealing

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: Character with extreme manners My objective is Victorian-style tea-drinking "upper class" lady characters. (It's more of a writing challenge.) Does anyone have any useful resources or tips for creating

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: Novels are long-form prose fiction, typically over 40,000 words. Questions that use this tag can relate to writing, editing, publishing, formatting or techniques as applied specifically to novels.

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: Does Wiktionary supply what writers need in an online dictionary? There are actually Wiktionaries for many languages and the English Wiktionary also defines and translates words of many other languages.

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: Good report making software I am reaching the final stage of my academic project work. Usual practice is to use Microsoft Office/OpenOffice/LibreOffice for preparing the final project report. As

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: I don't think there is a precise interpretation of italics. The idea of 'emphasis' is as close to their effect as I can get. If you were reading the sentence aloud, you would emphasize

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: Do I need to send an email to say thank you? I'm not very familiar with English world, and I want to ask a question about Email etiquette. Sometimes I sent an email to someone for help,

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: Please advise on this comma among semi-colons and provide a more concise sentence I created this question for two reasons: I want to know if it is proper to place a comma after the word

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: How to create space Recently, a few snippets of my fiction have received critiques along the lines of 'Does not give a sense of space'. Or 'needs more description, sights and sounds'. I think

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: Improving Ad Script I am looking for some advice on how to improve a short script that I have for an advertisement/introduction video. I have been revising this for two months now. I have

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: Clarity: What supports it? What hinders it? A friend recently challenged me on communicating an idea clearly, and we ended up discussing clear thinking. I explained that in the idea communication

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: I suck at plots. Is there a way to sort of train oneself to think of creative plots, specifically in scifi? I'm pretty good in the writing department as far as prose, it's just that I'll

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: How do you connect a non sequitur hook to a novel? A pineapple is walking down a street, but hereâ€™s the kicker: heâ€™s completely naked. That was a non sequitur hook I thought of.

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: Kindle self-publishing, automatically update I have a couple of small ebooks available on Amazon via Kindle direct publishing - I've just found a mistake in one of them so I fixed it and have

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: "The company from Redmond" vs "The Redmond company." I'm writing an article about Microsoft for my tech' analysis website and I got into a stylistic roadblock. Which of the following sentences

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