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Nov 7	awarded	Yearling
Apr 13	comment	How do you find your unique style? Good advice. Maturing as a writer takes a few years. Given your (questioner's) age, don't worry about finding a style just yet. Write as much as you can; use whatever style you think is appropriate to each piece or whatever style you're in the mood for at the time. With time, as you reread your old work, you'll begin to get a feel for the direction in which you want to go.
Feb 12	accepted	Does this passage convey an appropriate mix of seriousness and levity?
Feb 11	answered	How to get feedback about the quality of one's fictional writing from friends unbiased by the friendship?
Feb 9	answered	How can I make description more natural to me?
Feb 8	accepted	How far into a speculative novel should one go before introducing the central conflict?
Feb 8	comment	How can I cut my prep work to get to writing more quickly? @Sheelawolf Glad to hear it. The key is to keep trying different approaches until you find the combinations that work for you.
Feb 6	awarded	Commentator
Feb 6	comment	Does this passage convey an appropriate mix of seriousness and levity? Thanks. I'm not sure I can condense this any further than eight sentences, but I'll keep it in mind when I write the next snippet.
Feb 5	comment	How far into a speculative novel should one go before introducing the central conflict? Thank you for this remarkably thorough answer. In the case of what I'm writing, the central players are introduced in the very first scene and the first splinter conflict begins around page 20. But now I see that it then goes into a four-chapter tangent of character study and info-dumps. My original intention was that the origins of the central conflict and the true natures of the antagonists are to be shrouded in mystery. But I'm now trying to balance between being mysterious and being obscure. But I think that's a topic for a separate question!
Feb 5	comment	How far into a speculative novel should one go before introducing the central conflict? I'm actually aiming for point 3. Everything's going to come together toward the later chapters. The reason I asked the question is not because I felt the readers might get bored (I didn't even get bored reading Anathem), but because one of my 'beta' readers suggested that it might come across that way.
Feb 5	comment	Confusing writing in order to show how character is falling asleep - is it OK? @BenBrocka I agree. This is a great concept, but perhaps one should try to hint that the narrator is describing the nonsense that the character is perceiving? Something like She wondered why a medium lighting snake...
Feb 5	asked	How far into a speculative novel should one go before introducing the central conflict?
Feb 5	asked	Does this passage convey an appropriate mix of seriousness and levity?
Feb 5	answered	How can I cut my prep work to get to writing more quickly?
Feb 4	answered	Self Editing tips/tricks
Jan 30	awarded	Critic
Jan 22	comment	How does one deal with world builder's syndrome? Instead of writing lengthy notes, I maintain a separate timeline for each character or entity in the story from beginning to end. I also mark interactions between them. This allows me to keep the story consistent. E.g. like knowing that a certain character was only fifteen when a certain battle took place so he could not have been married at the time, etc.
Jan 19	comment	How does one include sign language in a dialogue? @FumbleFingers In my experience, using anything other than a monospaced font with just italics in a manuscript is a good way to annoy the editor!
Jan 19	comment	How does one include sign language in a dialogue? @JoelShea In the actual scene (this is just a dummy) the signing makes a little more sense. The deaf character has no other means to communicate with the other person under the circumstance. I'll take SimCom into consideration, though.