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| bio | website | naught101.org |
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| location | Australia | |
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| visits | member for | 10 months |
| seen | Nov 21 '12 at 12:46 | |
| stats | profile views | 4 |
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Nov 21 |
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Royalties - how to calculate author's take from the end-price? Kate: could you clarify in the answer how much you would expect for ranges of net and list royalty percentages? |
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Oct 1 |
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Tools for exploring and analysing document structure? edited question to make it clearer that non-software visualisations are also welcome. |
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Oct 1 |
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Is it okay to call the reader's target audience stupid? If you do decide to call your audience's users stupid, you could do it much more compassionately: your users probably aren't stupid, but sometimes it helps to assume they are. I still disagree with this sentence though. I think it's far more important and useful to just emphasise the other point you mention: users do not think the way developers do. |
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Aug 23 |
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How do I escape my own experience? Thanks @NeilFein. I work on that one a bit :) |
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Aug 23 |
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How do I escape my own experience? It's surprising how well the imp works :D |
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Aug 23 |
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How do I escape my own experience? True. Now that you mention it, I've actually been writing for my supervisor/examiners - who I've been assuming know more than me. Good tip! |
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Aug 22 |
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Are complex sentences uncommon or unwanted in English? The only reason the last sentence in this answer is so readable is that it's just two shortish sentences, joined by 'and'. |
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Aug 22 |
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Are complex sentences uncommon or unwanted in English? "The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion." - Douglas Hofstaeder, Goedel, Escher and Bach |
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Aug 22 |
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Is this sentence ambiguous? The ambiguity in the sentence is cool. But it could do with some punctuation, and "wanted to search for" is a bit odd (if you wanted to go looking for something, then why didn't you?). Maybe leave off "to search for", or make it "...the present we were searching for"? |
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Aug 22 |
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Is this sentence ambiguous? "Ambiguity" would make a great tag for this site. |
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Aug 22 |
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What qualities should a good metaphor have? I was taught in school that a simile was a type of metaphor. Hadn't thought of it again much until now. If you extract the meaning from the grammar, then there's a lot of cross-over. |
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Aug 22 |
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What qualities should a good metaphor have? If anyone other than Douglas Adams wrote that, it'd sound weird and be off-putting. It was, when I read it just then, until I was reminded who wrote it. |
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Aug 22 |
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What's the indent rule of poetry? Beware of falling into cliché or other horribleness when you leave such big holes in your writing. |
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Aug 17 |
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How can I catch more errors when I proofread? @MattEllen: So does the first sentence of the answer :D |
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Jul 28 |
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Tools for exploring and analysing document structure? I added a link to what I meant by "visualisations of flow" (those are just some good examples, I don't need exactly that). Another good example is this awesome xkcd cartoon |
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Jul 28 |
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Tools for exploring and analysing document structure? Hi @kitfox: I'm in climate science/statistics, but I'd prefer it if answers weren't field-specific, so others could benefit from them. |
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Jul 27 |
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Are there any good tablets out there for writing/editing? Netbooks that are much lighter than that are pretty common too, although perhaps with a shorter battery life. |
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Jul 27 |
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Are there any good tablets out there for writing/editing? @RalphGallagher: If you haven't used an on-screen keyboard for long periods, it's likely that you're severely underestimating the benefit of good tactile feedback that a proper keyboard provides, even a crap one, and even if you can't touch type. |
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Jul 26 |
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How to write a short story? Also, a good game story will not be short - it'll be long an convoluted, with lots of side plots. |
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Jul 12 |
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Do You Use Any Version Controlling Software/Methods As Writers? @Axarydax: Where is your repo stored? seems like the backup process would be a lot easier with a Distributed VCS... |
