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Jun 26 |
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Coming up with names for species in fiction? Quite a long way but here goes: you do know that most animals and plants have long Latin designation names because it's a relatively-known-yet-dead language, right? Following that model, I'd suggest making something like Na'vi Lang. (of Avatar), creating the long scientific names for your species from it, then making the names smaller by any language evolution means you see fit. |
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Jun 21 |
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Does my story beginning hook the reader? (dialogue + narration)? @alexchenco, Not sure about the others' opinions but I'd say "Write numbers in letters when in dialog." It's just that dialogues sometimes have phonetically spelled colloquialisms, usually used to show 'relaxation in conversation and informality'; this leads to an expectation of spelled numbers. Again, not sure. |
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Jun 2 |
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Style signatures and uncommon formatting patterns Try posting the link after pinging them in chat. I'm pretty sure you can't tag them here... |
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Jun 1 |
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Style signatures and uncommon formatting patterns updated as per question |
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Jun 1 |
suggested | suggested edit on Style signatures and uncommon formatting patterns |
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Jun 1 |
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Style signatures and uncommon formatting patterns And I deleted the examples altogether, for now... |
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Jun 1 |
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Style signatures and uncommon formatting patterns -The signature part is, diverse. I felt it was related but couldn't really explain how. -However, regarding the said-tags word choice, I intended to make them invisible just like "said." Maybe a little variation here and there but I wouldn't say "said in a low voice" when I have "whispered." -The only way to really tell is a test run but I don't have that big an audience for my blog (globally, that's about 3 persons) so I can't test it. |
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Jun 1 |
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Style signatures and uncommon formatting patterns deleted 398 characters in body; edited title |
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May 31 |
awarded | Scholar |
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May 31 |
accepted | How can I search for words by meaning/definition? |
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May 26 |
suggested | suggested edit on How to make out that my work doesn't require any more editing? |
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May 25 |
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Does this writing create emotion in the reader? Or go poetic! "The bed was wet. Filling the air was the smell of sweat. Her voice begging me to save her, still ringing in my head. Her face fading in my mind, the look of terror frozen on it. Melting into hopelessness, into horror freezing it." Mostly alliteration but I think it could work. Not this particular example but rather a way akin to "Mocking, mocking, mocking, mocking and hiding on my chamber door. Never more..." |
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May 25 |
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How well would this beginning sell the book to readers? Not necessarily for money -I'm pleased that the two characters in the excerpt (the main and the one in the secondary block quote) came as blood related that easily. -I'd said it (and edited to make the 'question points' clearer) that the hard SF part was crucial to the plot that consists of events and causes scattered across several universes, timelines and points in timelines. -Can you point the most obvious problem with the writing? The one that made you notice the rest? Don't elaborate; a comment would do. |
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May 25 |
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How well would this beginning sell the book to readers? Not necessarily for money Stupid Corrections related to Dpt. of Redundancy Dpt. |
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May 25 |
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How well would this beginning sell the book to readers? Not necessarily for money Body Editing |
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May 25 |
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How well would this beginning sell the book to readers? Not necessarily for money Stick to the body excerpt until I finish the the text in the last link... |
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May 25 |
asked | How well would this beginning sell the book to readers? Not necessarily for money |
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May 20 |
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Incorporating diagrams and equations into text when writing @JohnS, Generally, it's that easy; yeah. But TeX is that easy? Nah. Especially not for a non-professional as I suspect the OP is (non-professional in TeX, that is). |
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May 20 |
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Incorporating diagrams and equations into text when writing I'd say go for place holders. That might seem obvious but until you have the whole text on computer, don't try to add formulas or diagrams; just leave them some room then come back. Then, if you want to put TeX formulas in-line then your best bet is a complete TeX editor. That is, look for writing the 'whole thing' in tex not just the math text. |
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May 20 |
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How to handle screenplay revisions in Final Draft? @NeilF, Then I'll second 'strike-through formatting'; it gives you the in-process interface you want; you can send it with the changes visible back to the client; and -I'm guessing; never used FD- you could just mass-find-&-replace all striked-through with spaces or null characters, no? |
