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: State of the art proof reading tools/methods While my skills of expression are okay, being able to observe errors within my own writing is truly lacking. The only methods I've found to be of

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: What is the business model for Creative Commons books? I notice that a lot of computer and programming books are now licensed under various permutations of the creative commons license. Half

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: How do I stick to one story? I have been writing bits and pieces for quite a while now. I just can't ever follow through. I have written tons of poems (close to 50) but the only reason

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: Does this passage break the rules of telling and not showing? I wrote a story called Tempo, which I enjoy (this does not mean that it is good), but that has a chunk where the main character

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: What is a "light novel" and how does it differ from a novella? My friend has sent me a work to critique which he hopes to make into a light novel. I've never heard of this type of story

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: Visualizing multiple word-based changes among many text files I've written a piece of fiction with GitHub, which means I have access to many version of my writing. I'm curious to see how my

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: What is an "exchange" in magazine publishing? I have been offered "exchanges" for an article in a very small publication in my vacation town, that does not have the budget to pay for articles.

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: The answer of @what is not quite correct, though his comment contradicting his own answer is. But I realized that they were the same person only after writing this answer. I will still

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: The only method that I can think of that you've missed off your list is practice. Write as much as you can and put it in front of native English speakers (especially Americans, since that's

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: Fiction Novels & Active vs. Passive Voice Before I launch into this, I've perused these threads and they don't quite answer the specific question I have in mind: When to keep the passive voice

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: Capitalization with compound nouns starting with a number Consider the technical term 4-terminal: if I were to start a paragraph with this term, or using it as column heading in a table, would

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: Writing many entries/articles, storing them, and browsing them I'm looking for software that will permit me to write articles of various sizes, with a title and tags for each article. The program

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: How would my work being available online affect my chances of a book deal? Preferring to peddle my Science Fiction manuscript to a Literary agent, may well be an impossible dream. In which

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: How many pages would my manuscript be in paperback? Say I have a 100 page manuscript in Courier, 11pt, double-spaced. How many paperback pages is this roughly equivalent to? Is there a better

: How can one get better at copywriting? Since copy is such a key part of a startup's website, many business people would like to learn to be good copywriters personally. Such a person would

: Audio version of copyrighted written material I want to do a free daily podcast of the Bible. Would I need permission of the copyright holder of the translation I am reading or would this

: Can a likeable character be unsympathetic? I believe an unlikable character can be sympathetic, although that's tricky. But can you go the other way? Can your character be likable but at the

: While I'll tolerate it with McCarthy because it gives a certain feel to his book that's appropriate, I'm not as forgiving with other authors. The novel Rules of Civility by Amor Towles uses

: State of the art proof reading tools/methods While my skills of expression are okay, being able to observe errors within my own writing is truly lacking. The only methods I've found to be of

: What is the business model for Creative Commons books? I notice that a lot of computer and programming books are now licensed under various permutations of the creative commons license. Half

: How do I stick to one story? I have been writing bits and pieces for quite a while now. I just can't ever follow through. I have written tons of poems (close to 50) but the only reason

: Tools or communities for word association? Are there any tools or online communities that deal with word association? I'm looking for a resource where I could poll for common associations for

: Does this passage break the rules of telling and not showing? I wrote a story called Tempo, which I enjoy (this does not mean that it is good), but that has a chunk where the main character

: What is a "light novel" and how does it differ from a novella? My friend has sent me a work to critique which he hopes to make into a light novel. I've never heard of this type of story

: How to make a debate/discussion between characters less dry? I've asked questions in the past about dialogue and I've read some questions about balancing dialogue with plot, however I have discovered

: Visualizing multiple word-based changes among many text files I've written a piece of fiction with GitHub, which means I have access to many version of my writing. I'm curious to see how my

: What is an "exchange" in magazine publishing? I have been offered "exchanges" for an article in a very small publication in my vacation town, that does not have the budget to pay for articles.

: The answer of @what is not quite correct, though his comment contradicting his own answer is. But I realized that they were the same person only after writing this answer. I will still

: The only method that I can think of that you've missed off your list is practice. Write as much as you can and put it in front of native English speakers (especially Americans, since that's

: Fiction Novels & Active vs. Passive Voice Before I launch into this, I've perused these threads and they don't quite answer the specific question I have in mind: When to keep the passive voice

: Capitalization with compound nouns starting with a number Consider the technical term 4-terminal: if I were to start a paragraph with this term, or using it as column heading in a table, would

: Writing many entries/articles, storing them, and browsing them I'm looking for software that will permit me to write articles of various sizes, with a title and tags for each article. The program

: How would my work being available online affect my chances of a book deal? Preferring to peddle my Science Fiction manuscript to a Literary agent, may well be an impossible dream. In which

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