: Re: How do I re-interest myself in a plot I am working on? I've been working on my plot for almost a year now and every time I open my Excel sheet (yes,I know its odd to plot a novel in

If your plot is no longer interesting to you, let it go. It's the most extreme version of Kill Your Darlings.

You haven't wasted the time you've spent. Consider it an exercise in plotting and development. Think of how much faster and more organized you'll be with the next one.

Mourn the story, kiss it goodbye, bury it. Move on. You hereby have permission.

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: What's "fair use" for borrowing someone else's invented term? Let's say I'm writing a sci-fi novel. I want to use a word which another writer has coined, which has become well-recognized outside

: If your essay is analytical (and I'm struggling to think of any other reason you'd write an essay about The Great Gatsby) then I'd put it in the present tense. Gatsby loves Daisy, but

: "Streamlined and useful"? Which means punctuation is useless clutter? Ask the legendary guy whose life was saved by Czarina Maria Fyodorovna's misplaced comma. ("Pardon impossible, to be sent

: I kind of like the idea of starting with #2, but italicized and as its own paragraph — almost like an epigram leading off your essay. In fact, if you can get two or three of these

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