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: What are the first things I should do with an idea? I have a lot of ideas for things I want to write, but I usually end up getting lost in a stream-of-consciousness and either lose interest

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: A rhyming dictionary worth bookmarking online or purchasing? Has anyone come across any really good rhyming dictionaries? If so, what makes it worth having/bookmarking? (eg. completeness/ease

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: This is a pretty classic example of antithesis: a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly

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: Submitting a novel for publication: do editors still expect Courier font? About ten years ago an agent told me not to submit manuscripts in fonts other than Courier (or Courier New) and to

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: Can a book be written without an antagonist? I have had this thought running through my head and wondered what your thoughts were on it. Can a book, a story I should say, be written without

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: Is there any tool which points out the common mistakes in a piece of writing? It will point out mistakes like: Use of bad constructs. Use of repeated words. etc. (On a side note: if you

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: Character development pertains to anything that is involved with identifying and detailing specific information about your story's characters. What kind of relationships does your character have

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: Does this paragraph make you want to keep reading? Can you remember the last toy you ever bought? We do. Here at the St. Abattoir, London's largest toy store, your childhood is

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: Write to the finish, or edit as you go? Someone asked this question in another forum, and I thought I'd bounce it around in here to see what kind of responses we get. If you are working

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: How important is scenery when you are writing? When you are writing a book (or reading one for that matter), how important is it to closely detail the scenery or the setting? Does it just

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: How do you develop a strong female character? Are there specific characteristics that one should strive for when trying to develop a strong female character? Is it truly dependent on the genre

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: Best time to release a new novel? More specifically, an e-book. I know some markets tend to have season changes which make a certain time of year more beneficial for sales, but I was wondering

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: Other options for "had had"? Although the use of "had had" is grammatically correct, it doesn't read well and seems awkward to me. Take for example the following sentence: I had had enough

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: Do traditional publishers ever make use of "print on demand" (POD)? Do traditional publishers always use offset printing for the books they publish, or do they sometimes use POD to make books

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: How can I break up a lengthy explanation? I have a setting in one of my stories where a character has to describe a very long series of events, giving the history of an object so that others

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: Is it acceptable for a book to not have a dominant lead character? I saw this question posted in another forum, and it didn't have any responses, so naturally I decided to bring it over here.

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: I believe it depends on whether you are trying to be personable or professional. If you want to have the reader feel that they are reading comments directly from you, in a personal manner,

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: Cheap ways a young person can get paper books printed/bound from their manuscript? (Please incl sample costs) Some budding authors (school aged young people) want to see their creative works in

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: How can I accurately represent young adult dialogue? There was a recent question that caused quite a stir around here, not so much for the question itself, but more the purpose of the question.

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: Dedicated micro website I recently wrote a non fiction book. A marketer from the publishing company, advised me to setup a small website with a few pages dedicated to this book. This website

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