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My Reviews for Free Books?
I would like to provide reviews in exchange for a free copy of the book. I have a great blog website with excellent SEO and social media following. I'm happy to provide the review on my website with a ...
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A comma followed by “and” rule [migrated]
I'm not a native english speaker. I have been taught in school that if you use a comma, you should not use and after it.
I went to university, my university teacher said the same and if he said that ...
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Steven Johnson's DevonThink writing workflow: is creating & accumulating 50-500 word snippets worth the effort?
Steven Berlin Johnson talks in this much cited article about his research workflow using DevonThink. In short, he advocates for creating 50-500 word focused text snippets from your research readings ...
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Writing competitions
Are there writing competitions/awards for novel length works by authors under 18?
There are certainly prizes for professional novelists, and amateur novelists, but I'm looking for something for ...
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How to fix writer's thought muddledness? [closed]
Honestly my problem here is that I've been on writing hiatus for like...a year and half. Apart from writing small stories here and there, I haven't really taken on a story to a larger scale in a long ...
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The Best Title for my Skill Set [closed]
I'm about to branch off into the freelance world. I'm starting an LLC and I'd like some input on what I should title myself as the owner. For example "creative specialist" or "creative technician" or ...
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What purpose does it serve to obscure the title of a TV show? [closed]
Okay, I tried finding this on Google to no avail, and lit.se is gone, so this is sort of my last resort, so I'm trying to make it a writing question.
I'm breezing through The Perks of Being a ...
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Finding an Textfile Ezine to Write For [closed]
I am an eighth grader who is about halfway through reading all of the "Hogs of Entropy" issues. Reading through them, I realized that formality is not the focus of the pieces, which intrigues me to ...
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The most natural paragraph [closed]
Could you choose the most natural paragraph, please?
I will come to your place as soon as I am done with the selling of the/our house. Don’t get bored without me. It’s a/the beginning of ...
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Parenthetical phrases within dialog [closed]
I'm curious about the history and use of parenthetical phrases within dialog. I offer two contrasting examples:
An example of an "unvoiced" parenthetical phrase inside dialog from Pride and ...
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Getting the first words down on paper [duplicate]
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Help! I've got Writer's Block
I wrote a novel when I was 15; unfortunately I lost it as well. I am now 38 and for all these years I have wanted to write again, ...
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Help creating an ebook [closed]
Does anyone have some experience creating ebooks?
I have a book that I want to create an ebook from; I considered converting the book, but after trying, it produced very poor results, because the ...
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Where should index and glossary appear in a report?
I am writing my thesis and now wonder whether I should typeset index and glossary as an appendix or after them.
There's no department-level accepted writing style, so my adviser's opinion might be ...
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Regarding Professional Report [closed]
I am new in the working world and I happen to be given a lot of tasks related with creating report.
Later on I heard people give me comments that my sentence structure and my word choices are not ...
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Is it ok to begin an essay/report with a quote? [duplicate]
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Is it ok to begin an essay/report with a quote?
I am writing an essay on project management within IT and in my introduction I will give a brief description of project ...
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How to use His/My/Your permutations in adressing persons [closed]
I'd like to understand the rationale of when, why and how His/My/Your are used in titles of addressing people.
For example, the standard commonly accepted uses are:
"His Honour"("His Grace", or ...
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Writing a book on establishing Cash N Carry business? [closed]
I am currently writing a book on Cash N Carry and how to establish the business. Having authored a book on Retail Store Operations, the second venture is this.
For this book I am looking for the ...
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Publishing Fantasy versus Realistic Fiction (multiple questions) [closed]
So, I have a few questions that I'll address in a short little list. I figure it's best to include them all in one rather than dumping several questions on you guys, since they all relate.
Here goes:
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Which Pen Is Best For Writing/Signing Important Documents? [closed]
Regular pens or gel ink pens? What do you say?
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Looking for story that deliberately overused “get” [closed]
It was in Writer's Digest, probably the early 1980s, when I saw this. One of the regular columnists (or was it an irregular columnist?) went on a brief rant about careless writers overusing the word ...
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Referencing a website in-text using Harvard style
I have the following website page that I need to reference using Harvard style: http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/science/what-is-genetic-engineering.html
Is this a ...
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What are good dialog writing tips? [duplicate]
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How should dialog be formatted?
Writing dialogue has been a challenge.
From the punctuations to the tags, it all still very confusing for me.
Some stuff I want to know:
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Create automatic index from text document
Is there some software which can automatically do a basic index from my Text document (MS Word) for me?
I have written multiple speaker text's (each 2-3 MS Word pages in german language) for videos I ...
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PDF e-book page size and fonts
I am self-publishing a free e-book which I will make available in several formats: EPUB, online HTML, PDF.
What characteristics should the PDF e-book file have? What should the page size, font size, ...
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What is the smallest amount of text that can be plagiarized?
Can the following be considered plagiarized? I am interested in finding out the limit of words one is allowed to use.
Java is a programming platform that's used for developing computer ...
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Does it look unprofessional to have my name and all the titles of my website in lower-case? [closed]
I'm planning to have all the titles of my website in lowercase, as shown in the picture:
I did it to fit the design of the black circle in the top left (Yeah stupid I know, just a designer's ...
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Should it be a Short Story or Full Story
I asked Three questions in another question. To break it up, I am going to ask one which I still would like more feedback on.
NOTE: I was told to break it up by the moderator who closed it. Although ...
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How to cover different perspectives/levels of thinking in one story?
I was reasoning with a friend about why movies/novels often get highly successful while other, despite having an interesting story/topic, dont get much attention. We came to speak about Matrix, Pulp ...
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Does my story beginning hook the reader? (dialogue + narration)?
The following is the opening of a short story I'm writing:
Erin stared at Ruth, eyes narrowed. "There was
an earthquake last night?"
Ruth nodded. "Around 9p.m. The news says it
was a 4.3 ...
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Do I include the method of my research in the title?
For my Masters Thesis, I am trying to find an appropriate title. The field of the research is in Forestry and Geographic Information Science (GIS).
Currently my title is the following:
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Fixing fundamental flaws of structure and composition under deadline
The Backstory:
I have a project due in the next few days and noticed about halfway through the editing, rewriting and revision process that my initial approach to the subject matter and my argument ...
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Is there anything wrong with saying “Thanks” several times in the same email? If not, how could I correct it?
E.g. here is an email I just sent:
Hello X,
Okay I see - thanks very much for all the code! I'll definitely have
to take some time to study it before I can ask any questions. :)
Also - ...
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Writing a very complex relationship
I am writing a webcomic, and have come upon a snag, I need two characters to like each other very much, but one is the slave of the other.
In the comic, there are characters who find and use powerful ...
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Publishers favoring, or temporary initiatives tailored for, young authors
. What publishing houses would you suggest that pay special attention to young teenage authors? And what can you say about them if you'd had any direct interaction?
. Also, if there's a guide ...
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I have compiled a poetry book with poems of 4chan users. It has a lot of racial slurs and vulgarisms, is it possible to publish something like that?
It has around 200 poems, a lot of vulgarisms, and many of them seem senseless and random to a shallow person who can't see deeper. I want to allow normal people to tap into the misery of the lives ...
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How can this sentence better convey the immobilizing impact of fear?
Someone on another forum asked for advice on a sentence she was writing, so I thought I'd share it here and see what kind of responses we could get. The sentence in question is marked by italics. (I ...
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Should I close this quoted paragraph?
I have a paragraph of dialog which technically continues into the next paragraph, but I want to interject a "she continued" almost immediately into the second paragraph. So should I close the quote on ...
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How to write polite deadline email?
I'm trying to collect feedback from my colleagues and the deadline is on 10-April-2012, 2.00pm. So in my mail I write:
Please email your feedback to me before 2.00pm, 10-April-2012(Tuesday).
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What are the potential platforms for floating chapters of a business book?
I am in the process of working with a client on the development of a business book to support the development of a consulting business. The book will be comprised of multiple sections -- each which ...
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How to reword this: repeated back on him?
I don't know how to reword this:
Along the way, we see how the faults
Jacob made earlier in life are
repeated back on him.
I know
repeated back on him
doesn't sound correct, but I ...
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Words in author's native language?
Why in some essays or articles there are words in author's native language?
(In other words, the essay is in English and there are some Spanish word spread out in whole essay)
Does it necessarily ...
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Is it good style in fiction to write sentences as a flow of (disjointed) thoughts? [closed]
I was wondering whether it is okay to write like this or not:
I never went for the grooves. But I did take a seat near the bar table and checked out the pretty ladies. Drinking was not my cup of ...
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Am I correctly referencing chapters which belong to the same book?
Looking for some help on how to reference chapters in a book inside of a booking I'm helping with.
Should I be capitalizing Chapters 3 and 4 and would referring to chapters simply by capitalized ...
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Level of detail in description of character checking the news
I'm writing a short story about a girl who has apparently 'missed' an earthquake. This is the beginning of the second scene (here is the first):
Erin was sitting on her bed, working on a new ...
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Fantasy writing and Personal Philosophy [closed]
I've been writing (and re-writing) something for a good number of years. In the development of the story, it kind of felt like I was finding myself. In this, I feel that the fantasy world I've created ...
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Referencing a Play in an MLA paper
I've gone through several different resources that appeared in the Google search bar when I asked this question, but the sources give different answers to this question:
When referencing a play ...
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How would I say this in the reverse?
I am sending out a message to all users that have filed a bug report for my last game; the one I shut the server down on. The broadcast message I am sending is going to be an email, but I'm not ...
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“In the” vs “At the” [closed]
I am not sure which one is correct:
In the beginning of the book
or
At the beginning of the book
As in the sentence:
In the beginning of the book Marco describes his early life.
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Suggest any good text editor for mac
I have been using iBook author, for a time and the simple Mac TextEdit along with openOffice TextDocument. And I recently downloaded Evernote in expectation of more (but that's something else and not ...
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Correct word for “Pulling some one into work, with continuous effort”?
Please consider the below excerpt.
'How long is your break?' I shouted. A group of labourers sat under the banyan tree near the main campus building. 'It's two-thirty, lunch ended an hour ago'
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