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Sep 9 |
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What resources will teach me about the state of the art in technical writing? @KellyTessenaKeck - I am making manuals that are digital at least somewhat more IETM-like. Thanks for the excellent suggestion on the documentation contest winners. |
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Aug 29 |
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How to determine if a freelance writing website is reputable and provides assignments that are worthwhile? Unfortunately that's not a question that is a good fit for this site. Open-ended, poll-style questions do not work well for this format. I have edited your question to one that may work better. Hope it helps! |
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Aug 29 |
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How to determine if a freelance writing website is reputable and provides assignments that are worthwhile? Welcome to Writers. Unfortunately this question as phrased is a poll. If edited to something along the lines of "How can you determine if an online freelance writing site is reputable and provides writing assignments that are worthwhile?" it may fit our site better. |
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Aug 22 |
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How do I escape my own experience? Too bad I can't more than +1 this. |
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Jul 25 |
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What resources will teach me about the state of the art in technical writing? @JohnSmithers - does the edit help? |
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Jun 27 |
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Shared World licensing fees Excellent example of answering a question with your own site (and following the terms by disclosing your association) without astroturfing. Welcome to Writers and thanks! |
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Jun 21 |
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How does joint authorship work? Related: a generic question on co-authorship that is not specific to fiction, a question on a shared character, and a question on detail creation by the other author |
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Jun 13 |
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How to improve the ending of this short story (final scene + flashback) All 3 questions should ideally be separate. |
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May 24 |
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Ways for main character to influence world following their death The lasting influence route could be fascinating as a source of conflict - what did the dead character really want? Two other characters could disagree - oh the dramatic possibilities! |
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May 17 |
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Getting the first words down on paper See also Where should I start if I'm feeling the urge to write something?, a near dupe, and Fighting the blank page, another near dupe. In fact we may want to merge these questions. |
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Apr 12 |
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A tricky serial semi-colon I think this belongs on EL&U and not here. Anyone agree? |
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Mar 27 |
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Is there a name for this kind of sentence structure? @Kris - like Neil said, it's a fit for both. We have overlap in our scopes by design. |
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Mar 24 |
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How to convert DOI to citation information @StevenDrennon - this seems like it would be suited to web apps, but I do wonder if it also fits here. Meta would be the place to discuss. We've already had a general software discussion there. |
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Mar 23 |
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Is there a name for this kind of sentence structure? I wonder if this is also suited (maybe better suited) to English? |
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Feb 27 |
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Are there online research resources that cater to writers? What about the appropriate Stack Exchange site? |
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Feb 27 |
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How would I find a publisher who is accepting unsolicited manuscripts from authors? @Standback - I read through it, but it seemed rather general. I am hoping for a more specific list of...steps I think is the best way to put it. |
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Feb 27 |
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My “Bio”. Is the language OK? Welcome. I realize this was migrated from English, but unfortunately our guidelines do not allow critiques of a piece's grammar. |
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Feb 21 |
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How do I decide if writing expository scenes that won't be in my finished novel is useful, or procrastination? @Sheelawolf, and John - we can discuss the policy, but let's do so in chat where the other mods can chime in. I'm going to clean up this comment thread so it stays relevant. |
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Feb 17 |
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Do I need to know anything to write a short story that I wouldn't know by studying how to write novels? @NeilFein - good point. By compressed I don't mean compacting ideas, but rather expressing a lot in a short space. I basically think of all fiction as on a hierarchy from poetic (many layers of meaning in the word choice, imagery, rhyme structure, etc.) to the world-building novels of the Victorian era. Short stories are closer to poetry and further from world-building. |
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Feb 17 |
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Do I need to know anything to write a short story that I wouldn't know by studying how to write novels? A note on the structure: short stories may keep it pretty close to that structure, but the emphasis tends to be way different than in a novel - the denouement is typically a lot shorter (sometimes as short as a paragraph or sentence, or maybe almost non-existent) leaving to a much stronger sense of shock. |
