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| bio | website | neilfein.com |
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| location | New Jersey | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
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A freelance editor, I specialize in fiction but I've worked on non-fiction as well as web copy, corporate literature, and non-profit materials. I also edit and write for the group blog Magnificent Nose, which covers many topics but gravitates towards articles about writing and reading.
I'm also a lyricist; a guitarist for the band Baroque & Hungry; and I'm a touring cyclist.
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May 10 |
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Does Wiktionary supply what writers need in an online dictionary? I know what it is. What you might want to do is make your question more specific; asking if it's a good resource is fairly general, and invites discussion and not specific answers. (Also see justsk's comment.) English is also more strict about this than Writers is. |
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May 10 |
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Can my paragraph use better adjectives and descriptions? @mohanitar - It' not so much a matter of verbs over adjectives, more a matter of getting rid of the words that aren't doing much. |
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May 9 |
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Does Wiktionary supply what writers need in an online dictionary? I voted to close and migrate to English. I suspect they'll close it or at least downvote it unless you make the question more specific. For example, a good resource for what audience? (Saying "writers", which is assumed here on Writers.SE isn't very specific.) Perhaps you could ask what Wikitionary is particularly strong at. |
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May 6 |
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Dashes vs. Commas vs. parentheses? edited body |
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May 4 |
answered | Dashes vs. Commas vs. parentheses? |
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Apr 30 |
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How to attract the average reader to an “intellectual” novel? That's correct, yes. |
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Apr 30 |
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How to attract the average reader to an “intellectual” novel? If the bible in question were fictional scripture from a fictional world, yes, I'd change that. If it were an existing bible, I'd search out a translation that read well alongside my style. "It's the problem of the reader" -- this is a path to the reader putting the book down, eliminating their "problem". Poetic, stilted language in scripture can be a lovely thing, but the inscription quoted doesn't work on that level. |
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Apr 26 |
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Can I ePublish my out-of-print history book? formatting, capitalization, wording |
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Apr 26 |
suggested | suggested edit on Can I ePublish my out-of-print history book? |
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Apr 26 |
answered | How to attract the average reader to an “intellectual” novel? |
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Apr 24 |
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Should the Voice of the Author change with the Point-Of-View Character in a Non-Literary Fiction? Formatting, grammar. Also, "I" is always capitalized in English. |
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Apr 24 |
suggested | suggested edit on Should the Voice of the Author change with the Point-Of-View Character in a Non-Literary Fiction? |
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Apr 24 |
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Should the Voice of the Author change with the Point-Of-View Character in a Non-Literary Fiction? Is the point-of-view character hanging throughout the work? Is the work entirely in first person? |
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Apr 24 |
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Can I ePublish my out-of-print history book? edited tags |
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Apr 17 |
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How do I find an affordable editor? How do I contact you? |
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Apr 13 |
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An alternative to saying 'users' when describing features edited tags |
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Apr 13 |
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What is the Priority in an Action/Adventure Novel: Dialogues or Conflict? @Robusto - Please produce a source that you have invented for these imaginary statistics. Back it up! :) |
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Apr 13 |
answered | Potential confusion: referring to home planet as “Earth” |
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Apr 12 |
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What's a clear way to simulate web text in a story? -1 for recommending two serif typefaces on the same page; courier and times look terrible together. |
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Apr 12 |
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Writing first programming book edited tags |
