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| bio | website | johansens.us |
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| location | Michigan | |
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answered | Demo data in screenshots! What are the best practice? |
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Demo data in screenshots! What are the best practice? example.com is good to use because it is the "official" example website -- the name is reserved just to be used for examples in documentation etc. It's like putting 555 on a phone number. |
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Is it better to omit phrases like: after a moment, after a while, for a moment, etc? @JohnM.Landsberg I don't particularly disagree. My only "rebuttal" would be to say that there are times when you simply want to say that there was a pause. You may be able to think of some action to fill the moment, or some prosaic description of why everyone was silent or waiting, but there are times when that could sound overdone and contrived. Sometimes simplicity is better. Certainly not always, but sometimes. |
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Jun 6 |
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Ebook publishing How does it not work that way? And this is a forum for writers, what better place to discuss it? You have an upfront cost which you may or may not recoup by sales. Each sale gives some unit profit. The only extra complexity I see is the question of whether a sale in a certain channel would not have been made if the book was not available, or if the customer would have sought out another channel where it was available. |
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Jun 5 |
answered | how to use `and so on` or `blabla` in the middle of a sentence? |
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Jun 5 |
answered | Is it better to omit phrases like: after a moment, after a while, for a moment, etc? |
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Jun 5 |
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Ebook publishing @ShantnuTiwari Huh, I thought they had said that that was now free. Whatever. Still, at $25, if you make $5 per copy, you just need to sell six books through those channels to make it pay. Even if you're only making $1 per copy, you'd have to sell 26. Unless you know that the only market for your book is the members of your club or your own family or whatever, I'd think that is a pretty good gamble. |
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Jun 4 |
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Ebook publishing I think CreateSpace no longer charges for distribution. I believe that was the meaning of an email I got from them a while back. In any case, even when they charged the $40 or so, I think it was well worth it. Lulu used to charge $100, I don't know what their current price is. I don't sell a lot of books, but if you have it priced to make, say, $5 a copy, then if you sell 9 through other outlets via CreateSpace or 21 via Lulu, you're ahead. I've sold a fair number that went through Barnes & Noble web site, maybe others. |
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Jun 4 |
answered | How to indicate that it is a single short story |
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Jun 4 |
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Dream analysis research @celtschk Yeah, that possibility occurred to me. I think if I was writing the script and that was the point I would have put a 555 in it just to be cute. Or have a website for the movie or TV show and give your own IP. |
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Jun 3 |
answered | Dream analysis research |
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May 31 |
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Time measures in fantasy worlds I take it that when you say that maps weren't invented until the 14th century, you are referring to some level of accuracy in maps. The ancient Babylonians had maps by at least 2000 BC. atamanhotel.com/catalhoyuk/oldest-map.html |
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May 31 |
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Time measures in fantasy worlds Not clear to me why someone who held to a geocentric universe would be more likely to use seasons to measure time than someone with a heliocentric universe. Either way, seasons are pretty important to farmers, and until fairly recent times, 90+% of people were farmers. |
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May 31 |
answered | Time measures in fantasy worlds |
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May 30 |
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How do I organize a paragraph that lists several steps after an introduction? I don't see a problem with "like" here. He wants to make clear that this is not the only possible solution, but simply a pattern or general idea for a solution. In such a case to say "the solution is ..." would be inaccurate. |
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May 30 |
answered | How do I organize a paragraph that lists several steps after an introduction? |
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May 29 |
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Do empty pages need a number? @NeilFein No, but it's a data point. I didn't say that one example was definitive proof, just an example. |
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May 29 |
answered | Do empty pages need a number? |
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May 29 |
answered | think, I think, I don't think |
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May 28 |
answered | Is dialogue in a novel necessary, or just padding? |
