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: Pantsing a story? I heard a writer talking about pantsing a story. What does that mean?
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: Where can subject matter experts volunteer to work on proofing the technical details in fiction? I am not a writer (yet!), but I have been working in the computer field for over 10 years and
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: What is the term for written expressions that lead to "reading between the lines?" What is the term for something that is inferred, but not explicitly written within the text?
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: Defining Terms: To Capitalize or Not To Capitalize? Let's say that I defined a new term in my writing, such as (yes, it's second-person): You spot a Holo-Reader—a long, silver metal tube
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: How do you introduce terms? There's a few different styles for technical (academic) papers. Which is the preferred style to introducing new technical terms? For example, here is a paragraph
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: What is a discovery writer? From an answer to this question: How do I successfully structure a long fiction piece? I think I can infer the meaning from the usage but some elaboration would
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: Less universe-specific synonyms for "squib"? I write primarily fantasy; recently, it's been brought to my attention that I use the terms "muggle" and "squib" informally fairly often in roleplay.
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: Source for literary terms? The other day my wife, who went to quite a good school, told me that her literature teacher had taught her class abbreviations of terms which they were then asked
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: Is it okay to call the reader's target audience stupid? I'm a tech genre author, and have already published one book on Android development. However, this book was focused more on the developer
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: What is the term for an accessible character that knows nothing? In a lot of books, movies, or TV shows, there will be a character that knows little to nothing about the subject at hand.
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: What are these extra phrases added to the beginning of sentences called? I find that my students are using a lot of these phrases at the beginning of their sentences: First... First of all...
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: What does one call author blurbs at the bottom of journalistic articles? Sometimes journalistic articles have a brief about-the-author sort of blurb at the end, frequently italicized, of a general
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: What are First Drafts, Second Drafts, etc.? I've been reading a few questions on this site, and I've seen the terms First, Second or Third Drafts. What does this refer to actually? And could
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: Does a thematic quote qualify as an allusion? I am writing a paper on "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" and I need to include an allusion in my introduction paragraph. Can
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: What term describes the language used in comparing the ideas of different authors? I teach a course preparing students for college-level writing. In one writing task, the students need to read
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: What is this 'pretend dialogue' technique called There's a style that is popular on blogs, and takes the form of a dialogue between the reader and the author, where the author provides both
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: Is it correct to use acronyms in a bio or should I omit it? In writing a bio in a technical context, like an author blurb in a publication, should I use acronyms or spell them out? Always?
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: What are the correct terms regarding (this literary) technique? An example comes from a cartoon where there is a woman talking to her boyfriend. There's a "cloud" that comes from her mouth,
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: Graphical presentation method nomenclature I'm part of a technical documentation team where I'm suggesting the document designers different methods for graphical presentation. Each time I need to
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: Taxonomy of understanding: term Years ago I encountered a term to describe the way verbs are used taxonomically in college syllabi to suggest different levels of comprehension. The hierarchy, in
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: Term for stereotype stories Is there any term to describe stories where the "evil" characters are extremely evil, and the good characters are extremely good?
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: What is the significance of the owl with respect to writing? I've seen 'owl' mentioned many times in the context of writing. Some libraries have an 'owl's nest', some universities have writing
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: Is there a term for a fiction piece that goes after the prologue but before the epilogue? I'm writing a long non-fiction text that describes a fictional setting. I came up with a fiction piece
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: What is the "acid test" for a nonfiction anthology? I'm asking this on Writing.SE because I'm doing a short presentation on "What is an anthology," and I'm not sure how to answer the question
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: Using "Earth words" in a futuristic, fictional setting As a writer of primarily science fiction, I've often struggled with finding a happy medium between making the prose/dialogue relatable for
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: Separator character for terminology and definitions section? If I write a section of terminology and definitions in academic writing, which is the correct unicode character for the "-"? Is it
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: What is the term for a show or movie that has no actual story? When i see so many generic trash shows like "The Mist" i cant help to wonder, what is the story exactly? Why do they show
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: Types of written discourses The last few days I tried to find an overview of the types of writings one could pursue. Thereby not meaning styles of writing or guides on how to structure a
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: How to draw the line between expository and argumentative writing? I read many articles on-line, but cannot understand where to draw the line between expository and argumentative writing. According
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: What is an arena-driven story? There is an answer here from FraEnrico which is the cause for my question: What is the difference between character-driven stories and plot-driven stories?. Here
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: Bridging the gap between colloquial usage and technical meaning of terms Frequently, at least in the software world, it seems that terms get assigned a meaning over time that is more general
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: Terminology question - "if-else" or "if/else"? Are they "if-else statements" or are they "if/else statements"? I'm partial to the latter, but I can see the logic of the former - both "if" and
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: Alternatives better to the binary "0b..." format? In our documentation, we write binary numbers like this: 1010 But we write hexadecimal numbers like this: 0xABAB Now, according to the GCC compiler
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: What is the difference between "accurate" information in a document and "believable" information? As part of some research I am doing on measuring documentation quality, I have come across the
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: What's the term used to describe a twist which is badly written because the twist is based on information not yet available to audience? Context: In my question How did Olaf know?, I asked
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: Is there a term for 'The Secret Garden' and similar works? For some time now I've been curious about how to classify a small group of literary works. They include The Secret Garden, Polyanna,
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: How Can You Use "In Medias Res" To Beautify Your Amazing Masterpiece? How do you write out the second build up without killing the essence of the masterpiece? What are the advantages and disadvantages
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: Is there a name for a narrative that involves parallel exposition of the characters' backstories? One of the hallmark features of the television show Lost was the way in which each character's
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: Is there a term for a narrative where you are speaking to the reader? I know that a first-person narrative is written from the point of view of the narrator, relaying events from their own
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: What is "Buying Back My Book"? I have read on a few different author blogs, as well as some answers here I think, references to the author needing to "buy back" rights to their books. Having
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