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: How to balance an eloquent character/narrator with the need for readers to understand the story I'm writing a short story told in first person by a character who, an avid book lover, is much
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: Is there a phrase that means "a character suddenly gets a lot of development right before they die"? If I remember correctly, there is a phrase meaning "a character suddenly gets a lot
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: How are the limits of regional vernacularism/slang should be employed in a novel that is true to the area and time? What's an acceptable amount of non-standard English that can be used to depict
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: This is a PREREQUISITE of that, so that is WHAT of this? Anyone have a sensible word to finish the title above? I'm creating a semantic web, and some of the flip-sides to directional relationships
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: How to improve writing style and vocabulary? I'm working on my first book. I'm not that great in English and sometimes while writing, I feel that I'm not able to give my 100% in dialogues
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: Should my character speak like an layman or a Latin teacher? 'He tracked and updated 182 patient statuses' OR 'He tracked and updated 182 patient stati?' I believe "statuses" is correct. However,
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: What are the grammatical and stylistic alternatives to avoid overusing pronouns? Recently, I've developed a habit of writing he/she/him/her and overusing the character's name at the beginning of
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: What is the best possible way to improve one's vocabulary? During my highschool days, the subject of vocabulary had not been enforced or rather most students were lazy about expanding their vocabulary
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: Writing a book in a non native language I have a fantasy story in my head for several years now. I wrote an outline for a book and draw a crude map of the world. I even started writing
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: What are the words that were used during Shakespeare's time that are seldom used nowadays? I would like to write a Shakespearean poem that reads and sounds like a poem written during that time
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: What are some tools for expanding your vocabulary? I usually use thesauruses, but they're only good for synonyms. I also tried using visual dictionary, but they don't really help you expand your
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: How to describe movement in zero-G? Within the setting of my personal project (a hard science fiction) I need to be able to describe movement in zero-G extensively. Because I wish to write
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: Use of 'nigh' in fiction First post here. Some background first: I write follow ups to my Pathfinder table session from the perspective of my character. These are shared, and read along with
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: How do I write implied rape in my book? I'm writing a book and I want to write a chapter where the antagonist beats the protagonist and, well, I want to imply that he rapes her without
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: Using profanity I'm working on a war novel (sci-fi). My initial plan was for my MC to start out with a very clean language, almost comically clean, and as the plot progresses and the situation
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: How can you identify head-to-dictionary words? More than one of my beta readers feels a certain WIP of mine has too many words that need looking up. Much as I'd like to assume they just have
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: How to avoid using "he/she/it" repetitively in action Please do not make this a duplicate, I know there's a couple of questions like this, but they are not quite like my question, and their
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: How to use word frequency data? I just found the 'word frequency' tool in Scrivener's text statistics, but so far all I've done with it is read down the list (it occasionally generates amusing
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: How to expand my vocabulary? I wanted to write something for a long time. But what I think is, in writing the choice of words plays a very significant role. From where I can learn this thing?
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: Word for this behavior? Frustrated exhale through the nose To describe the action of inhaling through one's nostrils and then blowing it back out as an expression of frustration?
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: Author-recommendation for styles similar to Lovecraft? I enjoy the verbose and elevated use of words Lovecraft is inclined to employ. I'm hoping to read other authors who have a similar style,
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: How do I incorporate Vocabulary in my writing that I already know? I seem to have this problem where I know a lot of words but can't always seem to think them up when I write an article
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: Appropriate use of outdated vocabulary and terms? I'm in the process of planning a story right now, without the intention of sharing it it with others, but I would like it to be comprehensible
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: What is a polite way of saying someone is posh? What's way of saying someone is posh that isn't rude? And without being over-aggrandising?
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: How find an appropriate vocabulary I'm a newbie reader and often find myself needing to open the dictionary at least once every few pages. Although I'm a newbie, my vocabulary is at least of
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: How do I explain personal details to my professor without being inappropriate? I am writing an email to my professor in hopes that I can make up an exam that I missed. I missed the exam under
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: Reminding my professor to update a grade? I am writing an email to my professor as a reminder to update my grade on a particular assignment. I had an assignment that is graded based on a
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: Using profanities in novels I've recently read two quite "hard core" novels, both by famous authors. One was erotic fiction and one was a thriller which was very violent and gory. At the end
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: Redouble, double, or double again? I have seen double and double again a lot. Redouble, not so much. I found out that redouble can mean to double again, to double, or in general to intensify
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: Acquiring vocabulary to write fiction I am a non-native speaker, learning the English language, and I am already fairly good in reading and writing technical texts. I also enjoy reading fiction
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: In fiction, is the use of old-fashioned verbage or voice (ex. Tolkien, Le Guin) advisable? If my genre lies somewhere in the fantasy-fiction spectrum, is the use of a more "dated" narrative
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: How to balance for readers who are not technologically literate My story features two software developers who discuss computer-based things in the first chapter. It's not a significant part of
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: What is a good alternative for 'Yours truly' while quoting yourself? I wish to use a phrase/word after a quote, to indicate that it was me who came up with it (i.e. a phrase to quote myself)
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: How to improve my English writing? I know the title of this question is too broad. But I think this is the apt title for my doubts. I am a non-native speaker of English language. Even then
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: Word Clouds and Phrase Clouds I'm familiar with word clouds (or tag clouds) as used on blogs or on sites like Delicious. It seems to me that a tool similar to that could be of use to writers
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: What are some rich but respectful ways to describe various skin colors? Say I have a kid's book with children of varying skin tones: a boy with British/Germanic background, a girl with Indian
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: Improving my English I'm keen in writing stories of my imagination. However, my Grammar is not up to the mark. Even I use very simple words and not complicated words like the ones who use
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: Resource on archaic English I know there are similar questions around (like this and this) but they don't really have an answer that works for me. Are there any specific resources that would
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: How do I improve my knowledge of English well enough to write in it? I have a long-term goal to write a non-fiction book: a critical book about the current state of humanity's moral methodologies
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: Am i using "he/she" too often during action scenes? I'm not sure if I am being too overly critical of what I write or if I am actually falling into that "He/She" echo. By that I mean, using
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