Jay

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Mar 19	answered	How to tell or retell basic character and setting information in a series?
Mar 19	comment	What is the correct way to write a fractional number in a formal letter? @LaurenIpsum But if you want to travel to Michigan for a death match, let me know where to meet you.
Mar 19	answered	Effective techniques for describing pain
Mar 18	comment	What is the correct way to write a fractional number in a formal letter? @LaurenIpsum Personally I think "a half" sounds sloppy. (shrug) Not something I'd fight to the death over.
Mar 18	comment	What is the correct way to write a fractional number in a formal letter? FWIW, MLA Handbook says to spell out numbers that can be written in one or two words and to use numerals for others. With various special cases that I won't go into. I was taught in school to use numerals above 20, but I don't recall if that came from some recognized style guide or where.
Mar 15	comment	Avoiding cultural differences If you get frustrated, just bear in mind that if one of us tried to write about Israel or wherever you're from, we'd probably mess it up more than you mess up America. :-)
Mar 15	answered	Avoiding cultural differences
Mar 15	comment	What is the correct way to write a fractional number in a formal letter? I'd write "five and one half" rather than "five and a half" in formal writing, unless I was quoting someone. Just like I'd write "five and two thirds" rather than "five and a couple of thirds". Also, I think the big-numbers rule applies: Past 20 or so we switch from spelling out to use hindu-arabic digits. I'd do similarly at some point with fractions. Like, "12 34/137" rather than "twelve and thirty-four one hundred thirty-sevenths".
Mar 8	comment	Standardizing capitalization within a bibliography or footnotes when your sources have used different standards @NeilFein Possibly. But in general style sheets don't apply to a quote. Like if the style sheet says, Don't use foreign words, if you quoted someone who used a foreign word, I don't think the editor would expect you to reword the quote. But someone might.
Mar 7	answered	My Ex husband's wife self published a non fiction book naming my kids in the story
Mar 5	answered	Standardizing capitalization within a bibliography or footnotes when your sources have used different standards
Mar 5	comment	How can one plan elaborate crimes for fiction without getting into trouble? Once I was buying some rat poison and as I was checking out I had this sudden impulse to say to the clerk, "How much of this poison would it take to kill a person? I mean, like, if some of it got in her coffee. Accidentally. By mistake." It could have been a funny funny joke until I was arrested.
Mar 5	comment	How can one plan elaborate crimes for fiction without getting into trouble? I was thinking that the whole idea of someone researching crime for a novel and then a similar crime is actually committed and the writer becomes a suspect could make an interesting crime story of itself, but that it was obvious enough that it had probably already been done. Apparently so. :-)
Mar 5	comment	How can I convey dates (with ordering) for events happening under different dating systems, e.g. a Sci-Fi story spread over the galaxy? PS Your title says that events are spread over the galaxy, but the text indicates that they are simply spread over the solar system.
Mar 4	comment	How can one plan elaborate crimes for fiction without getting into trouble? Not to mention all the people who read crime novels or watch crime shows on TV and talk about them. I'll bet millions of people have, at one point or another, said something like, "You know, if I was going to kill somebody, I wouldn't do that, I'd ..."
Mar 4	answered	How can one plan elaborate crimes for fiction without getting into trouble?
Mar 4	answered	How can I convey dates (with ordering) for events happening under different dating systems, e.g. a Sci-Fi story spread over the galaxy?
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Feb 22	answered	Writing from the middle
Feb 21	comment	Citing Myself As a Source I don't suppose I often read the copyright page at the front of a novel, but in one book written by Poul Anderson there was a statement that said something like, "The quote on page <whatever> excerpted from <some other book> by Poul Anderson. Used with permission of the author, which was not difficult to obtain."