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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. Most cop shows and medical shows will have someone who doesn't know very ...
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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 be helpful.
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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 of the apps, than the user.
Now I'm working on my second ...
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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 that records holograms in three dimensions for later ...
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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 to write in the margins of their ...
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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 would love to put in some time volunteering my services as a subject matter expert (SME) for programming ...
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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. If I were to publish something, I'd not want to ...
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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 I have that I don't like, because I ...
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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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