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: Your readers will have to relate to the protagonist, even if they disagree with his moral stance and actions. He needs clear goals and obstacles that stand in his way to establish conflict.

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: Please help me improve this sentence... In a first-person narrative, Iâ€™d like to use the following sentence: It took me nearly a decade to write this script, and now Iâ€™d pitch it to

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: Software for analyzing a manuscript? I would like to get a better picture of a manuscript I've written, especially in regards to word usage patterns and potentially overused terms. I'm curious

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: Guideline on turning points in a novel? What are some popular guides regarding structuring a novel, specifically what turning points the story should hit and approximately at what point in the

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: How to emphasize a quote is written, not spoken? In a similar question on EL&U, I asked about suggestions for indicating that a quote is written instead of spoken. Robusto's answer suggested

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: Correct order for Thesis Front Matter What is the correct order of the following pages comprising a doctoral thesis: Title, Abstract, Colophon, Copyright, Dedication, Preface, Acknowledgements, Table

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: I'd suggest past tense but with a caveat- if the essay is for a specific publication, audience, or purpose that should be the guide as to what tense to use. Of course make sure the same

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: Third person. A biography is an objective look at the person's life. First person can have overtones of subjective opinions.

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: As someone mentioned earlier- anything can be published. If the real question is will a publisher pay you anything to publish it-The answer is will enough people pay money for the work to

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: How to discover clichÃ©s What is the best way to find out if a certain phrase is considered a clichÃ©? Is there an online resource, a specialized dictionary-like lookup? EDIT I found these

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: Referencing figure in text - capitalize the word "Figure" or not? Why? I see it quite a lot. It looks a bit like this: It can be seen in Figure 3 that... My gut feeling is that there

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: Giving something an alias Within a technical document I want to refer to a system or process by a shorter name. I have no idea what this process is called so searching the internet is not

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: Are there any specific rules to write Prequels and Sequels so that we don't end up with conflicting situations? Whenever I watch 'Smallville', I wonder how the writers take us back and forth

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: Is it ok to be autobiographical with a main character? This question really comes down to a personal issue I've had present in my fiction. I'm still very new as far as being a writer is

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: Text Editors. Suggesting & Tracking Changes to Plain-Text Documents Many word processors are capable to tracking and displaying changes made to a document. Those changes are typically displayed

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: Requesting A Writing Critique, Hopefully More Focused In light of the questions I've been asking here and the questions I've had about my writing, I thought of a good candidate to try and be

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: It's actually a pretty badly formed policy question. When it comes to crafting a debate or discussion question, you generally want to make the language such that it is a binary choice: Pro

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: Proper use of the "historical present tense" I am thinking of employing the historical present tense in a first-person narrative (to achieve a greater level of immediacy). The problem is that

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: Is there any standardized definition of a "Mary Sue"? I've heard the term "Mary Sue" thrown around a lot, and it seems to mean different things to different people, but is always something

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: How to use parentheses Parentheses have many uses; I find myself reaching for them often. Increasingly though, I realise I can convey the same meaning without parentheses with little or only

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