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: What are the most common style manuals? From Wikipedia: A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for

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: How do you write a fiction or non-fiction query letter to an editor? What do you put in the letter? What if you have no experience, or only very limited experience. Should you write about

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: How do you make a character quintessential, but not cliched or cartoony? I think it's hard to make a character standout and embody their traits without becoming cliched or cartoony. How do you

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: Where is a good place to find writing prompts? I love using writing prompts to come up with story ideas. I'm looking for good sites that have a lot of good writing prompts. One that updates

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: How to achieve a dark and nostalgic feeling/setting in a novel? I don't want to scare the reader, but I would like to produce a dark and nostalgic feeling. Pretty much the feeling that gives

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: Is it a good idea to write a summary of a plot before writing the full version? Sometimes when I write a plot I get confused about the motivations of the characters and how events connect

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: Do writers use highlighting to clarify ideas in their work in progress? In programming we often use syntax highlight in order to have a better picture of what the role of particular bits of

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: Has this dialogue enough suspense to engage the reader? I still have to make some grammar and writing corrections but I would like to know if this dialogue Has this has enough suspense to

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: Is it possible that my short novel will be boring to my readers because it only has two characters and the location doesn't change? In my story, there are two characters: a schoolgirl and

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: Will my readers feel like they are reading a children's storybook if there are illustrations in my novel? I'm writing a novel. I also have good drawing skills. I would like to add illustrations

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: How to attract the average reader to an "intellectual" novel? For instance, If I write a novel which has the following: â€œThe universe goes through a gradual transition from one condition,

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: Using a town to symbolize/represent a character within a story (fiction)? I'm not sure if this has been done before. In my story, the main character's wife takes the form of a town. The town

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: On writing an essay, what are some good techniques to teach to schoolchildren? I am currently teaching the way to write an essay as this: Step 1, write the topic sentence of the whole essay.

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: If you want to include fictitious businesses, try: All characters and corporations or establishments appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead,

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: All persons fictitious - where to place it? I've got an all persons fictitious disclaimer similar to the one mentioned at All persons fictitious disclaimer â€” ideas regarding modification? but

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: Is it okay to attempt to write in the style of another person, and how is that done well? I want to write like Neal Stephenson- I read Snow Crash and absolutely fell in love with the style.

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: How to improve/fix this short introductory paragraph and dialog? These are the things that I want for this introductory paragraph: Grab the reader's attention Create a melancholic and dark atmosphere

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: Will this opening and dialogue grab the reader's attention? And how can I improve it? Disclaimer: I'm not an native English speaker Here is the first part of a short novel I'm writing. For

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: How to improve the ending of my short novel (mostly dialogue)? In a previous question, I asked about how to improve the opening of my short novel. The following is the ending: "Can I

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: Is the opening of this story intriguing, "dark" and smooth? Disclaimer: I'm not an Native English Speaker. This is my fifth attempt of writing a short story (the previous ones are set in the

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