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Apr 22 |
answered | Best practice for stories based on other writers' stories |
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Apr 22 |
awarded | Organizer |
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Apr 22 |
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Apr 22 |
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How should I begin my research for my Military Fiction? @Forfiter: It never deterred Karl May from writing his immensely successful series "Winnetou". |
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Apr 22 |
answered | How should I begin my research for my Military Fiction? |
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Apr 19 |
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Best practice for stories based on other writers' stories Obtaining original writer's permission (possibly for percentage in royalties) would be probably the most fault-proof route. |
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Apr 18 |
answered | How to minimize language mistakes while writing |
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Apr 16 |
answered | The value of labeling book sections |
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Apr 16 |
answered | Where can I find lists of commonly used words to avoid? |
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Apr 16 |
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Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information @alexchenco: No, my knowledge of wine is very minor. For 2009 vintage to be 4 years old the action must occur in 2013, just like for 2000 vintage 13 years old... And it's the matter of communist china not importing cheap goods from capitalist countries. Some expensive wine could be imported for dignitaries and luxurious hotels for foreigners, but the iron curtain held most of imported goods away with high customs and bureaucratic restrictions, and exceptions were made only for wares unobtainable locally - one could get cheap Chinese wine, so why import any from Italy for 5x the price? |
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Apr 16 |
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How can I translate my poems in English that it doesn't sound odd/non poetic for English speaker audiences? retaining the style/meter. |
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Apr 15 |
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What is the preferred way to type out ellipses? Definitely seconding srcspider: You're a writer, not a typesetter. Use the unicode "…" character and let the professionals handle this, instead of trying to cobble your own from pieces not intended for this purpose… |
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Apr 14 |
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What is the smallest amount of text that can be plagiarized? Considering how heavily .Net plagiarized Java, I wouldn't be surprised in this particular case... |
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Apr 14 |
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Where is a good place to find writing prompts? Related: Resource for generic plot hooks? |
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Apr 13 |
answered | What types of research do writers do in advance of writing? |
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Apr 12 |
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Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information @alexchenco 4-year-old 2009 vintage ;) International transport got cheap and ubiquitous enough after IIWW that importing cheap Italian wine to China became economically viable. If you want a contemporary novel, have the protagonist "slide to unlock" the phone. If you want it around 2000, they'll listen to the music on a discman, 80s will be casette walkman and VHS video player. Fashion, cars, electronics, appliances, this all can anchor the story in time. Actually on second thought, strongly communist China wouldn't import cheap Italian wine. It must be past 80s or 90s... |
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Apr 11 |
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Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information Seconding. Keep the big things secret but dispense trivialities immediately. There's one more thing missing in it for me: a time anchor. Cheap Italian wine limits it to after IIWW but I have no clue if it's contemporary or the 60s or near sci-fi. |
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Apr 11 |
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Hooking the reader by omitting a piece of information For good use of omission of information, have a look around scp-wiki.net - the copious use of [data expunged], [REDACTED] and blackouts adds to the mood of quite a few stories. Take scp-wiki.net/scp-087 and consider the impact of the lack of the 4th record. |
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Apr 10 |
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Automated correction of google translated documents I can assure you they are trivial for a human but they are extremely challenging from programming point of view. Natural language processing and generation is one of the more difficult and underdeveloped branches of AI research. |
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Apr 10 |
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How likely is the “five consecutive word rule” to detect “random,” as opposed to intentional plagiarism? @Lauren: Typing speed is not regulated by Moore's law. |
