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: Publishing for Kindle I am very keen to get into writing, and have come up with several outline plots for short stories, novels and even trilogies. However, one hurdle, which I expect is not

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: How should I phrase "requests" to a higher-ranked individual in another department? At work, I lead a small team of programmers. I often have to request equipment and services from our I.T.

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: Is emphasizing a point by underlining still appropriate? Instinctively I find underlining for emphasis distracting and much prefer bold or italic. From my research it seems underlining is a carryover

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: Scrivener project statistics is showing an incorrect word count I just purchased Scrivener yesterday and am trying to get it figured out. After importing my manuscript, I cut and pasted it,

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: Releases needed for picture books? Do you need location releases for national parks and model releases for Pets to use in picture books?

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: Mashery vs. Apigee I was wondering if anyone could lend some advice as to the pros and cons between using Mashery versus Apigee for documenting an API? I have do some evaluating and have about

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: Tone and directness in inviting prospective team member I'm organising a project in the near future and am emailing people, which profiles I found on Linkedin, that I would like to work with.

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: Can I use idioms in my personal statement? I was wondering if I can use expressions such as "I was flooded with ideas", "It would get me closer towards my desired career" or "it worked like

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: Listing names with titles Normally when listing a group of people you would simply separate each with a comma. Please send the memo to Jason, Sarah, and Courtney. However if you want

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: Standalone book, followed by series I'm toying with the idea of writing a single standalone book and then later follow it with a series, in the same world with some of the same characters.

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: Types/Categories of rhyme? By type in this case I mean ways of grouping rhyme. There are a number of ways to categorise rhyme, based on what element you're looking at. for example masculine/feminine

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: What are the pros and cons of starting a novel with internal dialogue? I'm thinking about starting a novel by having the first sentence be internal dialogue. What are the potential problems

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: No, my first read, I thought the spring was a real spring in the Earth, like a geiser, because right before you're talking about real mining. Maybe try something like: Those days mining

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: Is it OK to invent as I write, or should I plan the entire story first? I have read Harry Potter and am a big fan of J.K. Rowling's writing and I had always had this urge to blog and

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: How Do I Fill In The Gaps Between The Chapters I know this may come off as weird or strange but i want to know how do i finish my novel. The thing is that i already know how to end

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: Punctuation before / after em dash and speech mark I originally posted this question on the main English forum, but someone suggested it might be better posted here. Apologies if I have broken

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: Avoiding the "as you know" trope in exposition When writing fiction, especially in universes other than our own such as sci-fi/fantasy genres, the reader often has to be given a piece of information

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: Publishing for Kindle I am very keen to get into writing, and have come up with several outline plots for short stories, novels and even trilogies. However, one hurdle, which I expect is not

: It's a common theme in writing today to make it dull and boring, as long sentences are praised and complicated, sesquipedalian words are placed on a lofty pedestal. Detaching all sense of

: How should I phrase "requests" to a higher-ranked individual in another department? At work, I lead a small team of programmers. I often have to request equipment and services from our I.T.

: Is emphasizing a point by underlining still appropriate? Instinctively I find underlining for emphasis distracting and much prefer bold or italic. From my research it seems underlining is a carryover

: Scrivener project statistics is showing an incorrect word count I just purchased Scrivener yesterday and am trying to get it figured out. After importing my manuscript, I cut and pasted it,

: Releases needed for picture books? Do you need location releases for national parks and model releases for Pets to use in picture books?

: Mashery vs. Apigee I was wondering if anyone could lend some advice as to the pros and cons between using Mashery versus Apigee for documenting an API? I have do some evaluating and have about

: Tone and directness in inviting prospective team member I'm organising a project in the near future and am emailing people, which profiles I found on Linkedin, that I would like to work with.

: Can I use idioms in my personal statement? I was wondering if I can use expressions such as "I was flooded with ideas", "It would get me closer towards my desired career" or "it worked like

: Listing names with titles Normally when listing a group of people you would simply separate each with a comma. Please send the memo to Jason, Sarah, and Courtney. However if you want

: Standalone book, followed by series I'm toying with the idea of writing a single standalone book and then later follow it with a series, in the same world with some of the same characters.

: Types/Categories of rhyme? By type in this case I mean ways of grouping rhyme. There are a number of ways to categorise rhyme, based on what element you're looking at. for example masculine/feminine

: What are the pros and cons of starting a novel with internal dialogue? I'm thinking about starting a novel by having the first sentence be internal dialogue. What are the potential problems

: No, my first read, I thought the spring was a real spring in the Earth, like a geiser, because right before you're talking about real mining. Maybe try something like: Those days mining

: Is it OK to invent as I write, or should I plan the entire story first? I have read Harry Potter and am a big fan of J.K. Rowling's writing and I had always had this urge to blog and

: How Do I Fill In The Gaps Between The Chapters I know this may come off as weird or strange but i want to know how do i finish my novel. The thing is that i already know how to end

: Punctuation before / after em dash and speech mark I originally posted this question on the main English forum, but someone suggested it might be better posted here. Apologies if I have broken

: A mark consisting of the letters sp enclosed in an oval is commonly used by teachers (and some professors) in the United States to call a misspelling to the student's attention. But as you

: Avoiding the "as you know" trope in exposition When writing fiction, especially in universes other than our own such as sci-fi/fantasy genres, the reader often has to be given a piece of information

: A "trope" in literature was originally defined as simply "a figure of speech", but in more modern parlance it has the meaning of "a significant or recurrent theme or motif". Tropes are essentially

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