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Jan 16 |
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Resource for generic plot hooks? made the link more visible |
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Jan 16 |
suggested | suggested edit on Resource for generic plot hooks? |
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Jan 15 |
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Resource for generic plot hooks? Yup. Here's the TVTtropes 'daily' dose. See you in ten earthly days ;) Pay attention to info-box on the right of the page. |
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Jan 15 |
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Troubles with unfamiliar locations and settings based in the real world Also see: Deciding the setting: Real or Invented. |
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Jan 12 |
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A cross-[What] kind of romance? @LaurenI, 'Sapient' is 'thinking', 'wise' or 'capable of abstract thought' while 'sentience' is the ability to sense and of being aware of it. In other words, 'sentience' is consciousness (many animals have that, they just need to be able to feel and act on feelings while limited by their range of sensory info) while 'sapience' is being aware of sentience and being capable to act on that while unconstrained by the limits of the sources of sensory info. |
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Jan 12 |
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Troubles with unfamiliar locations and settings based in the real world felt like doing a quick editing job. Reworded and re-tagged. |
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Jan 12 |
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Troubles with unfamiliar locations and settings based in the real world Welcome, loldop. I reworded your question a bit and added three more tags that I felt handled something of what you're asking. Tell me if I misunderstood your question. |
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Jan 12 |
suggested | suggested edit on Troubles with unfamiliar locations and settings based in the real world |
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Jan 12 |
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A cross-[What] kind of romance? @LaurenI, Actually, here it is. "Sapience" is the superset, "sentience" is the subset, since both parties can 'sense' and 'process' their sensory information, but in different ways, they're both sentient and sapient, sentient (organic, inorganic, ...), sapient in the same way. I don't think there could be two ways of sapience anyway. So, using something Latin, I have "trans-sentient romance"! Phew! |
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Jan 7 |
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Researching sensitive subjects As to kids specifically, I wholly agree with Lauren. But I'll add another piece of advice and tell you not to choose one of the kids as your hero (in the story). In other words, don't wait for one of them to strike the bell, just get the general gist of their personalities and create a hero. And I never mean to sound smug but it's just my formal ESL educ. |
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Jan 7 |
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Researching sensitive subjects So I guess the general advice would be: "Find a not-so-sensitive-but-still-viable source for information. Or find a sample that has already seen what you want to research.". But then you'll be talking to living subjects (instead of reading books) and this adds lots of scruples. For example, I'm not aware of any place one can volunteer in to help rape victims, and I'd rather no such place exists as they need professional help, sometimes humane unprofessional help but that's besides the point. The point is, you can't safely research 'sensitive' subjects, neither in Real Life; nor on the net. |
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Jan 3 |
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Researching sensitive subjects Or is it 2. Given that I believe my intentions to be unquestionably honorable and am sure of my doings/thoughts/..., how do I hide my seemingly inappropriate activity on the Internet when researching generally sensitive subjects? Notice that I specified "on the Internet", I might be of help there if that's what you meant to ask. |
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Jan 3 |
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Researching sensitive subjects So, to see where I can 'help' you, which of the following are you asking: 1. How do I go about researching generally sensitive subjects? Since there are a number of subjects that are seemingly universally 'sensitive'. I can't help you with that. |
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Jan 3 |
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Researching sensitive subjects I think the question is more general than this specific example which the OP seemed to include merely as an, well, example. IOW: "Researching sensitive subject*s*". |
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Dec 25 |
awarded | Fanatic |
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Dec 22 |
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How to refer to character of focus in a story Compact; clear; grammar-corrected |
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Dec 21 |
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A cross-[What] kind of romance? @LaurenI, If it keeps eluding you, you can always fall back to "cross-definition romance"! However you define your being as, well, being, then my being can love them from across definitions! To find a term for that you'll have to define what they have in common and make that a superset of what they are. If both are AIs (or anything similar) then it can be "cross-chip", where "sentience" could be its superset, like "species" is to "breed". |
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Dec 21 |
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A cross-[What] kind of romance? "Cross-capable"? That would cover almost all cases, since one only needs two "capable" individuals/entities and if those two can make it work then the romance was "cross-capable". You might want another capable that's close to, but is not, 'capable', though, but I can't help with that. |
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Dec 18 |
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Finding before/after examples where writing has been improved, to learn from "The second paragraph", oh my! |
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Dec 18 |
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Looking for a verb that means “making something looks very simple by ignoring its complexity or details” There's also a 'joke verb' that's been circulating in my study group lately that might work if you know the reader would get it and if the writing is on the far right end of the formal/informal scale of language. The word is: "fermicalc" and I'll leave it to you to figure out how it came about. |
