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Mar 16	comment	Writing competitions Yes, please. I asked a similar question a while back, what do you think the answers were? I hope you have better luck.
Mar 8	comment	How to quote something twice Would you use the exact same format if the repeated part isn't at the end of the original quote? Like mentioning "One day at the end of the fall..."?
Mar 3	comment	Critique of this short text about inequality and contempt Commenting on the idea, I don't think that a centralized authority is inherently bad. It's just that all available examples (historical/current) were/are. So my solution would be to romanticize it a bit - make it a real burden to be in power; those who have it have the word on everything except themselves. Else, I am non-native, am still in high-school, and have neither recognized mistakes in nor found difficulties while reading your text. I would call this a social essay but I'm not sure.
Feb 28	comment	What type of writing would this fall under? I'm not so sure about that. Yes, it's somewhat 'streamy' (and that's an important aspect) but I think its 'sound' is a more defining feature. It's like a semantically-rhyming (idea-rhyme/idea-flow/etc.) piece that is more focused and 'artistic' than plain prose but much more relaxed than poetry. There's got to be a name for that.
Feb 27	comment	What type of writing would this fall under? Well, it's not exactly skilled-native-level language and I'm not a native myself. There might be a name for this 'flowing/slightly rhyming/not quite prose and not poetry' style but I don't know. And "composed prose" in my previous comment makes no sense; disregard it.
Feb 27	comment	What type of writing would this fall under? An equivalent piece in Arabic would be called 'Nathr'. If I must, I'd say that poetry is poetry, prose is plain old talk, what you have is a 'composition/composed prose'. But 'nathr' is commonly translated to 'prose' while prose would be 'insha'' in Arabic so I'm shooting in the dark here.
Feb 27	reviewed	No Action Needed Punctuation and capitalisation in poetry
Feb 25	revised	How to minimize language mistakes while writing A comment mentioned that 'editing' was relevant; I think here 'avoidance' is wanted 'during writing' not after.
Feb 25	suggested	suggested edit on How to minimize language mistakes while writing
Feb 8	comment	A cross-[What] kind of romance? @LaurenI So, did it work?
Feb 8	answered	Killing off a character: deciding if, when and how
Feb 6	comment	Killing off a character: deciding if, when and how Try Bokurano. It's a manga, not yet a classic, fairly mainstream and quite well-done. It has around 7 distinct examples of 'death' with their respective 'whys'.
Jan 28	awarded	Quorum
Jan 21	comment	Writing exercises to practice the art of giving unique voice to characters? Talk with the character once a day, any time you like, but not immediately before writing. In your mind, imagine your entire existence to be a talking head, exactly where your real head is in the real world. Imagine the character you talk to in front of you, in full-detail (head, body, clothes and gear). Think about how you're reacting to them and how you're showing your reactions. Then talk to them about their story. You know everything about their world, sure they'll have encyclopedias-worth of questions to ask.
Jan 20	comment	How to tell a story with the least amount of writing? It feels like your weakness is 'the word', not necessarily that you have to have a world built behind it. If I understood correctly, it's that you're more visual than verbal, you just 'feel' the story and visualize it in your mind (with dialog, I presume) but you don't know to effectively do that in words. So why don't you try making e-comics? Consistency would be hard to keep, though, as you'll have to rely on this 'inner-eye' for detail, unless you don't mind writing yourself notes. If it's the work you're having problems with, then I don't really have any advice.
Jan 19	comment	Parts, books, volumes, etc Examples escape me but I'm quite sure a section talks about a general idea that is then broken into chapters for the specifics. I was talking about encyclopedia-sized books here, where the "Biology" section would have a chapter on botany, one on marine life, and another as an introduction to bio-life topography. Still, if you know from somewhere authoritative (or you have any examples), what contradicts this, please share your findings here and disregard my comment. It was only an 'observation', after all.
Jan 18	comment	Parts, books, volumes, etc The most common order I've seen is 'Volume>Book>Part>Section>Chapter>Point' but it depends on what you're writing - fiction, nonfiction, technical, and the like.
Jan 18	comment	Gadgets that make the world/story broken It could. If it's always employed to give the heroes something to chase, it would break the story. For me, anyway.
Jan 18	comment	Gadgets that make the world/story broken Also: Applied Phebotenum and all sorts of MacGuffins. When overused or when their introduction (even if mid-story) is obviously a 'Deus ex machina'.
Jan 18	comment	Find Information For Describing A Nuclear Power Plant @NeilFein: In that case, shouldn't the Q be even more general? Something like: "How to research top-secret places or settings with not much public documentary material?"