6,159 reputation
823
bio website dalewriting.dale.emery.name
location Sacramento, CA
age 54
visits member for 2 years, 5 months
seen 3 mins ago
stats profile views 50

I write non-fiction about leadership, software development, testing, and resistance to change.

I also write fiction (primarily the beginnings and middles of yet-to-be-finished novels) in a variety of speculative genres.

I also write about writing.


Feb
17
revised how should a writer use version control to track drafts, rewrites, and revisions?
Deleted the erroneous "git checkout --branch" command
Dec
29
revised How can I keep my characters' identities a mystery successfully?
added 4 characters in body
Jun
21
revised How does joint authorship work?
added 14 characters in body
Sep
11
revised How can I express this more clearly or concisely?
added 109 characters in body; deleted 5 characters in body
Aug
28
revised If in real life the antagonist is often oneself, shouldn't it work in a full length novel?
added 242 characters in body
Jun
4
revised What's the modern way to handle gender in tech writing?
added 737 characters in body
May
24
revised How Do you Stave Off Boredom While Writing?
added 94 characters in body
May
14
revised Why is this ‘loved’ italicized?
Removed the spaces before paragraphs. They caused each para to be formatted as a line of code (or something like that).
Apr
18
revised How to refer to character of focus in a story
added 3 characters in body
Apr
17
revised Do writers use highlighting to clarify ideas in their work in progress?
deleted 7 characters in body
Apr
13
revised Potential confusion: referring to home planet as “Earth”
rolled back to a previous revision
Mar
10
revised Hardware-based Word Processor
added 152 characters in body; added 11 characters in body
Mar
3
revised Getting emotional while writing, good or bad?
added 3 characters in body
Feb
9
revised Strunk and White vs “Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace” by Williams and Colomb
fix several grammattos