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: How should I format chapters in my manuscript? I'm in my final stages of editing before I send my manuscript to beta readers. I'm wondering how I should format chapter titles. Do I put them
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: Is this adjective correct? which adjectives are used for an institute working toward education and culture? I've seen "educational and cultural' can be used, but is it possible to delete "and"
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: What can be the guideline for modifying quote? God does not play roulette — Albert Einstein There are cases that I feel like a change in the original quote would make it more rhythm, poetic,
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: Is there a limit to how much I should edit my work? Is adding new ideas to a chapter after finishing it a bad habit? It's my first time writing a novella, and English is not my native
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: International English Style Guide? For writers who are self-publishing to Amazon (especially for a global or US & UK audience) is there a style guide for an "international" English?
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: Who had 3 rules for submissions: 1. You must have a point. 2. You must make your point. 3. You must make it in pristine, first-rate english? I think it was a famous magazine editor. I must
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: Suggesting changes in cowriting I am about to cowrite a song with a friend, who already drafted something. I want to suggest edits. I find some changes in the form necessary because we want
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: When writing and formatting a novel, what are the rules for scene breaks? Is it okay to use both asterisks and double spaces? I have found information on this topic of scene breaks available
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: What order do I start seeking editors I have completed writing my first novel. What order should I start putting it in front of editors (copy, development, structural, etc.) before submitting
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: When editing, should I use track changes? I want to keep a file for each of my editing stages throughout my self-editing process. Should I use track changes when I am editing so that I can
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: What are the stages to self editing? I just finished writing my first draft of my novel, and I don't quite know the states of self-editing. Right now, I'm not looking for advice on professional
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: Will a copyeditor refine both dialogue and plot? I am a big-picture kinda guy. I have ideas and I love details, but I hate to get stuck up in the microscopic level grunt work - managing
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: Are adverbs as transition a bad thing? I am using prowritingaid to edit my writing and it keeps flagging all adverbs. They have a post related to it here. Yet I feel like adverbs as transition
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: How exactly does a book go from typewritten pages into an actual mass-produced unit ready for the consumer, and do authors have any control? I want to be clear that I'm asking about this both
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: How to change color of all edits to red in word? I dont want to switch back to red each time I make an edit I am editing an existing doc, I want to make all my edit as red (or any
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: Seeking advice - screenwriter looking to write novel All. I'm looking for some advice. I'm interested in writing a young adult mystery novel, but I don't believe I'm a good writer in the traditional
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: Birth-death dates in exhibit catalog I'm editing an art exhibit catalog. The paintings featured are primarily portraits, most often titled simply with the subject's name. What is the best practice
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: How to write useful and respectful comments and remarks on academic thesis, papers and other proof-read stuff to motivate and valuable author's work? You are probably familiar with this situation:
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: If you're writing a story where the location is based in the USA, should you adapt your spelling to the American way, rather than British? If an Australian writer writes a story based in America
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: Using "her/him" twice in a sentence I'm an English learner, and I had a question about writing "her" twice in one sentence. For example, what would sound better for formal writing? (This is
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: Tense change when referring to how protagonist currently is while he is describing events I have written a novel that I want to send out to agents, but am now having doubts if it is polished
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: How much "throat-clearing," or introduction and exposition, is acceptable to introduce a narrator? I am writing Historical Fiction Novel. A Reporter is interviewing a Centenarian who narrates the
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: Can I self-edit my own book before submitting to Publisher I am attempting to write a novel that is easy to read. Totally understand people have short attention spans, hence I use many short
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: When should a chapter end and the next chapter begin? I writing a short story and I would like to know when I should end a chapter.
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: Should Authors Strive to Write Stories Easily Understood by 5th and 6th Graders? I just decided to use the Flesch-Kincaid metric for all my unpublished novels, and they all have a 5th Grade
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: When Should A Writer Stop Self-Editing? I have about four thoroughly edited unpublished novels right now, and I have accounted for a lot like: story (developmental editing), logic and consistency,
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: The use of elipses in writing a novel I am a little confused and need some help in clearing things up. In writing dialogue and the speaker pauses how do you show this. Now, from my understanding
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: Punctuation in non-period bullets list Desktop-publishing question: For example, in the bulleted text with non-period-at-the-end writing style, is it proper to eventually use a few sentences for
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: Using single or double quote I have scoured the internet but have found conflicting information. When in in dialogue in writing a person mentions the name of a song, should it be in single
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: Format of a song in writing a novel In my novel, I am writing a scene where my character digs up a memory of a song a lady sung to him in the past. He runs into the lady again, several
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: The proper use of had in a sentence In my novel I am writing a scene where I am trying to describe a character. In the scene, he is a white male, 35 years old, with rich parents. He is
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: How to write a drunk character slurring in speech Question for the English pros: I am working on a scene in my novel I am writing and have a question about the style of wording in a drunk
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: How to use the word "Dysphoria" in a sentence to show distress and sadness? I'm writing a sentence which goes like this: I could sense the dysphoria setting in her voice even through a
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: How do I proofread my work before submitting it to competitions when I have dyslexia? I'm in my mid 20's and all my life I have avoided reading books and writing because of how bad my dyslexia
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: How can I shorten a piece of writing effectively? I always face the problem of word limit. How can I shorten a piece of writing without causing its original essence to mar? How can I be
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: Questionable behavior by editor Last year, I worked for an organization that published a weekly blog on its website. The blog was also published as a newspaper column and was included in a
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: Can overwriting be made to look intentional from a first-person narrative? I am an aspiring author, trying to get my 80,000-word traditionally published, though I will self-publish it if that
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: Text Appearing Between the Lines in Scrivener I have been editing scrivener across devices, and when I edit text across multiple devices, the text appears midway between the lines. I can find
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: Is there a way to make editing enjoyable? I have my first draft more-or-less complete, and I've been working on editing it now. There is one big problem: I hate editing I find editing to
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: How to find an editor to my poems? I have written some poems, is there a way to get them edited before I send them to publish. What services can be preferred for editing by a Publishing
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