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| bio | website | wordsdeferred.blogspot.com |
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| location | Minneapolis, MN | |
| age | 28 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 5 months |
| seen | Dec 22 '12 at 3:20 | |
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Programmer by day, writer by night.
I love Science-Fiction, Fantasy, and all the less easily classified forms of speculative fiction. While my writing is typically within these genres, I will read almost anything, fiction or non-fiction.
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Apr 28 |
answered | How to explain something mid sentence |
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Apr 27 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on What are the ingredients for a good book review? |
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Apr 25 |
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Will my readers feel like they are reading a children's storybook if there are illustrations in my novel? Yes, specifically comic books (as opposed to newspaper-style shorts). "Graphic novel" is basically equivalent to "comic book," but the term is more often applied to comic books of a serious, literary tone, aimed at an adult audience, as "comic book" has a strong superhero/childish connotation. See good ol' wikipedia. |
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Apr 25 |
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Will my readers feel like they are reading a children's storybook if there are illustrations in my novel? With graphic novels becoming more of a mainstream, "adult" thing, I suspect many of today's readers will be open to something like this. However, it may depend heavily on your audience. |
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Apr 24 |
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Can I ePublish my out-of-print history book? signature is not necessary |
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Apr 22 |
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What needs to be included in a corporate style guide? edited body; edited title |
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Apr 19 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on criticism tag wiki excerpt |
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Apr 18 |
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How to refer to character of focus in a story @Lynn - I like your advice of "clarity first, variety second." I think the danger here is a pathological fear of pronouns. Sometimes the author feels the need to use a different descriptor every time the character is mentioned. It's the same sort of fear that causes people to pepper their story with Swifties just to avoid using "said." Better to stick with the pronouns (or the said's), which most readers won't notice, than to overcompensate. |
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Apr 18 |
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How to refer to character of focus in a story This is very good advice. Not only does it slim down your prose, but implicitly showing everything from a character's perspective helps the reader get under that character's skin, so to speak. |
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Apr 18 |
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How to avoid getting confused while adding symbols within symbols (novel writing)? +1 "Anything that you (the author) finds confusing, your readers will definitely find confusing." |
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Apr 18 |
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How to avoid getting confused while adding symbols within symbols (novel writing)? deleted 11 characters in body |
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Apr 10 |
awarded | Convention |
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Apr 5 |
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When should I use punctuation with bullets? edited body; edited title |
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Mar 30 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on How do you make a story succeed in spite of an unsympathetic main character? |
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Mar 25 |
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Quality of my blog writing This strikes me as blatant self-advertising. If you want feedback as well, I think it'd be better to make a similar question to this one for your own blog. |
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Mar 24 |
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plot wiki excerpt added 163 characters in body |
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Mar 24 |
suggested | suggested edit on plot tag wiki excerpt |
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Mar 24 |
wiki | created plot excerpt |
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Mar 24 |
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tools wiki excerpt added 242 characters in body |
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Mar 24 |
suggested | suggested edit on tools tag wiki excerpt |
