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| bio | website | johansens.us |
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| location | Michigan | |
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Feb 8 |
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How do greetings vary with time of day? "Good night" is something you say when leaving at night. You don't say it when you're arriving, even if it's night. |
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Feb 6 |
answered | Killing off a character: deciding if, when and how |
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Feb 4 |
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Is anybody aware of a good way I can determine whether or not something is public domain, or royalty free? There is no longer such a thing as "copyright renewal". Basically, the law used to be that copyright was good for 28 years and you could renew for another 28 years. But this was changed back in the 1970s so that now it is life of the author plus 70 years. copyright.gov/title17/92chap3.html For works created before 1978 there are a maze of special rules, so it will depend on just when Turing wrote the work in question and whether he renewed the copyright. |
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Feb 4 |
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Is anybody aware of a good way I can determine whether or not something is public domain, or royalty free? @NeilFein Copyright is governed by an international treaty. So amongst all the countries that have signed on to that treaty, which is most of the countries in the world, the same rules apply regardless of where the author lived and regardless of where the person who wants to copy the work lives. |
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Jan 30 |
answered | What are some disadvantages of writing fiction in a diary format? |
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Jan 30 |
answered | What software do you use for writing and then structuring a book? |
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Jan 28 |
answered | Is it appropriate to credit someone with a quote if I am not absolutely sure they are the source? |
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Jan 28 |
answered | What work better for the following piece of writing? Past or present tense? |
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Jan 25 |
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How to quote from a foreign journal that has not been translated? I've seen footnotes that follow the usual format -- title, author, publication information, whatever -- and then add "(author's translation)" or similar words. I don't think there's anything to be gained by inserting the original Arabic unless you have reason to believe that a significant percentage of your readers can read Arabic. |
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Jan 24 |
answered | How are citations formatted in serious non-fiction (proposals)? |
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Jan 22 |
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What are my headlines lacking? ... I can see how you could take "No rules" as "you don't have to obey traffic laws if you have a tough vehicle like this", but my thought when I first read it was "not limited by the roads or the weather or convention". Etc. Hmm, there's an interesting psychological study here. When people have differing interpretations of ambiguous statements like a slogan, are the differences due to one's own preferences, one's image and stereotypes of the people who made the statement or are the targets of the statement, or simply to essentially coincidental connotations we put on the words? |
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Jan 22 |
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What are my headlines lacking? @sf I suppose any slogan, by the nature of its brevity, is subject to interpretation. "Red lights" indeed strikes me as saying "you can run red lights and ignore other traffic", that one struck me as odd. But the rest ... "Pecking order" sounded to me like "have a better vehicle than the other guy". Vain and egotistical, not a slogan I would have been likely to come up with, humble guy that I am, but I didn't take that as "run other people off the road", just "be better than other people". ... |
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Jan 22 |
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What are my headlines lacking? Hmm, I think it's quite a jump from "I want a tough car" to "I believe being stronger makes one right". Sounds like you have some kind of prejudice against people who own big trucks. Are you one of those wimpy Prius types or something? :-) I suppose a couple of these could be understood in terms of bullying other drivers, like "iron fist" and "red lights". But I think most of the target audience would understand them in terms of dominating difficult driving conditions -- rough roads, snow, etc -- rather than other drivers. |
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Jan 21 |
answered | Are there rules for, or guidelines on, time gaps between a plot's scenes/chapters? |
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Jan 21 |
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Gadgets that make the world/story broken Even with your edit, I don't see how it's not still an infinite list. Yes, time travel, super weapons, magic powers, etc, all have the potential to create such "plot trenches" (catchy term). But I doubt there's any short list of such issues. Maybe you could come up with a short list of broad general categories. |
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Jan 21 |
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Gadgets that make the world/story broken My intent with the last paragraph wasn't to say that as long as you foreshadow adequately that the problem of such inconsistencies goes away, just that's it's one possible solution that works sometimes. |
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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 18 |
answered | Gadgets that make the world/story broken |
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Jan 17 |
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Are TOC and appendix part of total word count for books? "Being I'm paid by the word, isn't it generous of me to use such long ones?" -- Arthur C Clarke |
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Jan 17 |
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Are TOC and appendix part of total word count for books? I'd certainly include appendices in any word count. As AncientToaster says, TOC should be pretty trivial. In most books it's what, maybe 20 chapters, 5-word title each, 100 words or so? I'm sure that's less than the difference between actual word count and "standard" word count (i.e. count letters and spaces and divide by 6). An index would be questionable: that could be a lot of words. I'd think you wouldn't count it, but I don't know. |
