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: Writing discipline In today's frenetic, fast-paced lifestyle (especially if writing is not currently your career or means of earning an income), it can be extremely difficult to "make" or find
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: How can I write an attention-grabbing first line? So, the beginning of any story needs to capture the attention of the reader, so he continues and wants to find out what's happening. A Confederacy
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: What techniques do you use to invent snappy turns of phrase? We all know clichés are bad[1] and that fresh, inventive and "fitting" phrases will delight and entertain our readers. What
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: Are "morning pages" useful? I've found an interesting private online journaling website: 750words.com From "About" section of the website: I've long been inspired by an idea I first learned
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: What helpful writing exercises do you use? The two I do most are dialog and description related. When I meet a person or I'm just sitting people watching, I try to write their description
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: Is touch typing skill important for being a good writer? Yes, I know - it is important. But my question is: does it influence the speed only? Do "two finger typing" and "peek typing" eat
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: When is it a good time to move on to another project? I've seen it mentioned in software development the concept of Fail Early, Fail Often. Using failure as a learning process is important
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: Writing for an Audio book. What are specifics? What are specific requirements, a writer should follow, when writing something that is going to be (or just can possibly be) not only read but
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: Where and how to look for a picture for illustration? Do you think a writing can always benefit from the use of a visual illustration? If so, how to find for free or buy an appropriate picture,
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: How to vary writing style? I just had to edit a 40 page paper and I'm not kidding, there were paragraphs where every sentence started with "This." How do good writers learn to vary their
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: Are there any good magazines about writing? As in all other fields I'm interested in, I love to have a subscribtion that makes sure some hugely inspirational material gets dropped into my mailbox
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: What are some ways to get to know your characters? For example, I have recently taken to analyzing all my characters within the scope of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. I already had my
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: Can someone explain set pieces? I was using a book in a writing group that talked about set pieces, but I never really got a clear idea of what it is or how they're supposed to appear in
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: Something different: Help me find the unnecessary words. I had a professor, once upon a time, a guy named Jim Guetti. He was possibly the best writing coach I've ever had. You took his classes
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: Expositing a lack of racial difference I have a story set in a fantasy-Africa, in which the protagonist must make her way from her rural home to a coastal city in order to seek medical treatment
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: How does one implement effective foreshadowing? I am a "reread reader" - that is, I like to read the same book more than once. The books I have the most fun reading again are the ones that
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: The "Rules" of Writing There are a lot of axioms that get tossed around in creative writing courses, books on writing, and of course, the Internet. Often, these little gems are explained to
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: How to deal with self-criticism? I write non-fiction articles for my website and a weekly paid newsletter, and I’m doing that for some time now. However, I still struggle a lot with self-criticism,
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: How can one make technical issues more accessible to a non-technical audience? Most of what I write is non-fiction -- technical books, blog posts on open source topics, political stuff, etc.
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: Original story climaxes - rules / guidelines for this? I always get stuck trying to work out what the high-point of the story should be, especially when writing sci-fi/fantasy. There seem to
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: When parodying a song, how important is it to replace words with homophones thereof? I often decide to parody songs to adapt them to different contexts -- mainly for fun, for improving my English
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: What are the best online writing classes? I've taken some classes at Mediabistro.com -- both nonfiction -- and while the teachers have been pretty good (one gave me some excellent advice that
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: How do you avoid purple prose? I try to watch out for bland, overused adjectives and I keep adverbs to a minimum but -- I hear this phrase a lot and I'm not even sure what it means?
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: Are composite characters in creative non-fiction okay? I come from a journalism background and am very interested in the dying style of narrative journalism, or creative non-fiction. I was discussing
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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 to find some good examples of combat or action scenes? I always learn a lot about about writing by reading other works and following their examples. Right now I'm very bad at writing
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: Are there any techniques that make complexity work? One for the creative writers, although I suppose a lateral shift might put it within reach of journalists/technical writers. As authors we all
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: Editors: Edit on first read, or read and edit on second round? I edit novels (among other works). I was having a discussion with someone (not an editor) who didn't understand my technique.
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: Which techniques can I use to become a better editor when editing my own writing? I'm looking to improve my ability to edit and correct my own writing. What are some techniques I can use
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: What's a good program for tracking submissions? What's a good program or technique for tracking submissions? I need something that'll keep track of who I've submitted to, when, if they've replied,
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: Techniques for minimizing redundancy in a document, paragraph or sentence? Can you provide me with some techniques for minimizing redundancy in English sentence structure on three levels? The Document
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: How to describe the point-of-view character without using mirrors In fiction, the main character is often the first person we meet in the story. Given that the story is written from his/her
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: Is there a way of listing the elements that makes a real fact fun? For instance I wrote this thing that is real God’s love is like your parents love / except for the ‘‘burning,
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: Are there any techniques to arrange or list ideas from a short text? For example I wrote this: !Paying! for exams, and also books to pass them is only a small price / to give poor
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: Checklist for making sure your writing is Atomic? Question: Can someone please give me a list of things to check when reviewing a document to make sure that it is atomic. Atomic? Meaning that
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: What is a good methodology for researching a historical novel? I'm having difficulty with the research aspect of my historical novel. This question was originally going to be "how much research
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: Should you read your own genre? In terms of novel writing, I tend to avoid my own genre, at least for the most part. Some of the reasons why: Genre Blindness / Genre Trap: Too much reading
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: What methods can I use to revise my writing? Background I am finding it challenging to transform an early draft into a finished product. My biggest challenges are putting the prose in the
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: Avoiding cultural differences I'm not a native English speaker, but I write in English. I'm now visiting the US, and I have made some very interesting observation regarding the way ordinary life
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: How do you make a story succeed in spite of an unsympathetic main character? I'm looking for techniques specific to a story with an unsympathetic main character. Confederacy of Dunces, for example.
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