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| location | Surrey, United Kingdom | |
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| visits | member for | 6 months |
| seen | Jan 23 at 14:37 | |
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I have a BA Hons degree in typographic design and Masters degree in business administration. I worked in the publishing industry for 30 years as a setter, copy editor and proof reader, before moving into management. Now semi-retired.
My main interest areas are cookery, cricket, and reading/writing.
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Jan 21 |
answered | How do authors gain strong familiarity with archaic and extremely rare words? |
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Jan 18 |
answered | What is the proper way to use the pronoun “I” without too much repetition? |
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Jan 9 |
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Very simple markup language for writing fiction @Jay You don't need a program capable of markup to put in paragraph breaks, italics, or chapter heads, that should all be available in even the most basic word processing program - that's precisely my point. |
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Jan 9 |
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Very simple markup language for writing fiction @bmearns I understand fully what you're trying to do. Pick up any printed fictional novel you have lying around. How much emphasis do you see in the text beyond that of italicisation and punctuation? None! The writing does it all. However, if that's the way you want to work, then no advice from me will make any difference, but I think you're making a mistake working in that way. |
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Jan 9 |
answered | Very simple markup language for writing fiction |
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Jan 9 |
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What genre appeals to the widest audience? Good story, good characters, good story, good characters, the genre doesn't matter. |
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Jan 9 |
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How many different words are in the average novel? J.R. Yes! But as I said, there's so many variables involved this is just a very rough estimate. |
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Jan 7 |
answered | How many different words are in the average novel? |
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Jan 7 |
answered | Fan-fiction and legalities [copyright etc.] |
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Jan 2 |
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How many commas is too many? @JoelShea If the OP is using them correctly, yet still feels there's too many then he needs to look at another aspect of his writing. The OP has not made it clear why he has too many commas, without that information any answer can only be speculative as to why he has too many of them! |
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Jan 1 |
answered | Combatting Excessive Familiarity Of Writing |
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Dec 31 |
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How many commas is too many? consistency |
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Dec 31 |
answered | How many commas is too many? |
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Dec 27 |
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Switching from past to present tense? Why be so obvious about them? Wouldn't it be far better to let the reader figure out that they're flashbacks by the narrative? |
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Dec 27 |
answered | alternatives to “he said” in dialog |
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Dec 26 |
answered | Intellectual Property Rights & Reuse of the Written Material |
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Dec 24 |
answered | Various flavors for the action “irritate someone”? |
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Dec 24 |
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Too much exposition in my full-length play: how to fix it? Rewrite it without so much description would seem the most obvious way to go! |
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Dec 23 |
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Correct word for “Pulling some one into work, with continuous effort”? added 41 characters in body |
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Dec 23 |
answered | Correct word for “Pulling some one into work, with continuous effort”? |
