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Jun 8 |
answered | What's with all the hate on adjectives and adverbs? |
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Jun 6 |
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Avoid blending Fantasy and Sci Fi I just wanted to add that Roadside Picnic but you were first. An interesting thing was an artifact that was an infinite source of electric energy - nobody knew how it worked, but humans developed a way of "cloning" it making it not a unique, extremely rare thing but a common-day (if expensive) "appliance" used for mundane tasks like powering up electric cars. |
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Jun 4 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 31 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Suggest any good text editor for Mac for writing in multiple languages |
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May 31 |
answered | Time measures in fantasy worlds |
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May 29 |
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Are my metaphors/similes effective? @Paul: Yes, that would work: emphasizes the instability, not the change. |
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May 28 |
answered | Do empty pages need a number? |
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May 28 |
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Are my metaphors/similes effective? @Paul: I guess so, but that still doesn't work for me. The change in the elevator is a momentary shift, a tremor like that might be perceived as gravity shifting randomly. The way it's written now suggests the gravity changed rapidly, once, and then stayed at that changed state, which was hard to describe. |
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May 28 |
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How to convert handwriting into text Seconding that, and if your typing speed is poor, consider hiring someone with better typing speed. 25 pages isn't all that much for a skilled typist, and you can contract people over the net, sending them scans of the original. |
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May 28 |
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How to convert handwriting into text Note you are going to lose most of punctuation and the text will require considerable amount of editing. Text recognition software is poor at recognizing homophones. |
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May 28 |
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How to convert handwriting into text OCR produces "few errors" in case of printed text, and between "many" and "far too much to be of any use" for handwriting. |
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May 28 |
answered | Are my metaphors/similes effective? |
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May 22 |
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How does one involve people in writing non-fiction? I've found one nice approach: fabularize. Write a story where the idea is central to the story. I remember one book about grammar from my childhood - or precisely, about a little impish creature obsessed with good grammar, living with two teenage girls and battling bad grammar in common life together. Another example: Fourth part of Gulliver's Travels. Or the (in)famous "Atlas Shrugged". |
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May 17 |
answered | Best Practices To Learn By Reading? |
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May 15 |
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Best Grammar checking software It's funny to see a question of the format so unwelcome on StackExchange because "choosing the best is subjective" or "this will create an endless list of answers, all valid" when the answer to the question is "none". We have fairly good spellcheckers but it's still a good several years before a half-decent grammar-checker is created. (that doesn't mean none exist, simply none good exist.) |
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May 14 |
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How many words in 350 pages typed and double spaced? In OpenOffice, the easiest approach is to write a page or a few, then go to Tools=>Count Words |
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May 13 |
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What do you do if you enjoy writing, but have no ideas? I wish for software that would be easy and robust enough to easily store that kind of data. I tried concept-mapping software but it usually focuses on pretty presentation, not on getting the whole grid jotted down without getting muddled in the details like sizes of the text boxes. I've got in the works something so complex I can't keep it whole in my head and that problem is really a roadblock. If you want to contact me, try randomblank@derpymail.org ; Random Blank is generally the nickname I use in the MLP fandom. |
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May 12 |
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What do you do if you enjoy writing, but have no ideas? added 2243 characters in body |
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May 12 |
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What do you do if you enjoy writing, but have no ideas? @Mussri: I have a good memory for "grid of dependencies" style data: maps, algorithms, storylines, structures. Don't be too protective about ideas: If you forgot it, it wasn't good enough to stick in your memory anyway ;) Also,see edit to the answer. About MLP: as my inspiration dried out some 10 years ago, it rekindled it recently, but as side effect about all my current works are MLP fanfiction. Including this one. |
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May 11 |
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What do you do if you enjoy writing, but have no ideas? @Mussri: I'm no speed demon typist. I don't concept-write at all; the concept is too malleable for any medium, even computerized - I try to hold it whole in my mind. I type on a computer, still, it's thinking that takes most of the time. I used to handwrite a lot but computer editing capability is far too helpful to go back to that. ps, how do you feel about "My Little Pony"? |
