Fortiter

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Dabbled in family history when I first retired from full-time employment. Now regularly put in 60-hour weeks. Is that obsession?

Delighted to have a new focus for my writing.

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1d	answered	Do publishers really need to translate between UK and US English?
May 9	comment	Create automatic index from text document Does Microsoft Word no longer have the capacity to do this automatically from a concordance file? I recall doing this without any additional software.
May 9	comment	Which one is correct? If you opt not to use the second "will" then there is no requirement for "allow" to refer back to the first. So "This book allows you to ...". If you don't like "allows" then make the second "will" explicit as in your second version.
May 7	answered	When self publishing, are there benefits to making a company to represent your books? Is that then a publishing house?
May 7	answered	The manuscript Summa Logicae (William of Ockham)
May 6	comment	Chopped sentences with too many conjunction, and repeating the subject again and again To what extent is this question limited by the condition "for a screenplay"? Would the same techniques be relevant in the case of a news report or a literary novel?
May 6	answered	Words for Sounds in Screenplay
May 6	comment	Does writing in a certain mood change how a writer writes? Is the reductio ad adsurdum that to write about an amputee I should hack off my leg? I think it was Wordworth who spoke of "emotion recollected in tranquility". There is no guarantee that you will be able to exercise your writing craft while in the grip of the object mental state.
May 2	comment	How to assure your plot isn't a carbon copy of another story? @Neil Fein Are we responding to the same question? The one I read makes no mention of "how to decide" but asks "how to ensure"; and my (albeit) theatrical response was to acknowledge the similarity but then to introduce a dramatic deviation from the (apparent) parallel storyline.
Apr 29	answered	How to assure your plot isn't a carbon copy of another story?
Apr 29	answered	Table of content in Newsletter
Apr 25	comment	Questions about APA style Are you planning to create this paper on a manual typewriter? If not, most of your questions (about leaving blank lines and hitting enter repeatedly) are not relevant. Your issues are with word-processing not writing.
Apr 25	comment	Is there a reference for “dumbing down” material? When writing textbooks for junior high school, I used variants of Flesch Reading Ease, and the Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level to assess reading difficulty. Since the basic methodology balances word length and sentence length, my rule of thumb was that a new (necessary) polysyllabic term should be introduced in several short sentences to enable the reader to build familiarity.
Apr 25	answered	Visual methods of plot development?
Apr 22	comment	How should I begin my research for my Military Fiction? Perhaps a more relevant form of this question might be "Is it a good idea to write about something of which I know very little?"
Apr 20	revised	Multiple tasks and a step by step tutorial Roll back to original intent.
Apr 19	answered	Does this excerpt strike a balance between the formality of steampunk and accessible writing?
Apr 19	comment	Multiple tasks and a step by step tutorial Then use 3 To view (a) a single contact {Go to 4} or (b) all contacts {Go to 5}. 4 To view a single contact, click on the name 5 To view all the contacts, click the "contacts" link.
Apr 19	answered	Multiple tasks and a step by step tutorial
Apr 8	comment	Is a glossary needed in a novel? @Des From your example, I cannot see why you want to include the word "banjar" at all when village hall will do for readers in English. Thinking about why you want to use the term should give you an insight into how to explain its meaning in a less obtrusive way.