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| bio | website | ancestor-envy.blogspot.com.au |
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| location | Australia | |
| age | 61 | |
| visits | member for | 7 months |
| seen | 1 min ago | |
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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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May 2 |
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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. |
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Apr 29 |
answered | How to assure your plot isn't a carbon copy of another story? |
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Apr 29 |
answered | Table of content in Newsletter |
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Apr 25 |
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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. |
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Apr 25 |
answered | Visual methods of plot development? |
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Apr 22 |
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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?" |
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Apr 20 |
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Multiple tasks and a step by step tutorial Roll back to original intent. |
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Apr 19 |
answered | Does this excerpt strike a balance between the formality of steampunk and accessible writing? |
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Apr 19 |
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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. |
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Apr 19 |
answered | Multiple tasks and a step by step tutorial |
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Apr 8 |
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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. |
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Apr 7 |
answered | Is a glossary needed in a novel? |
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Apr 1 |
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For Kindle, are hard paragraph breaks that serious? Have you misinterpreted the advice not to use ADDITIONAL hard returns? If you have hit return TWICE to create space between paragraphs (instead of using style formatting) then Kindle will see an empty paragraph and try to style it. That can look really ugly. |
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Mar 28 |
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Is it acceptable practice to use contractions in a fictional first person narrative for children? The relevance to the question "Is it acceptable practice to ..." lies in determining who is the arbiter of acceptability in your context. In the case of a children's book, that can often be librarians. |
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Mar 27 |
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How can I consistently distinguish among tables, fields, and records in a database? Have you taken a deliberate decision to NOT USE expressions such as "one-to-one" and "one-to-many"? |
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Mar 27 |
answered | Should I write about how the character solved some riddle or let the reader solve it himself |
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Mar 27 |
answered | Is it acceptable practice to use contractions in a fictional first person narrative for children? |
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Mar 23 |
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Critique wanted for a fantasy prologue Is your proposed series intended to have any connection with this existing work? |
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Mar 15 |
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What is the correct way to write a fractional number in a formal letter? When using a fraction introduces problems with how the text will look or sound, change the unit of measurement. 66 months avoids the issues of hyphens (or not) and the solidus when precision is required and more than 5 years will suffice in many cases. |
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Mar 9 |
answered | Is there a way to import a script from Celtx into Final Draft? |
