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| bio | website | timothy.green.name |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 4 months |
| seen | May 14 at 12:13 | |
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Apr 5 |
awarded | Editor |
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Apr 5 |
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How likely is the “five consecutive word rule” to detect “random,” as opposed to intentional plagiarism? Added link to question which explains what the "five consecutive words" rule is. |
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Apr 4 |
suggested | suggested edit on How likely is the “five consecutive word rule” to detect “random,” as opposed to intentional plagiarism? |
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Mar 17 |
awarded | Critic |
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Feb 1 |
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Is it a bad writing practice to start sentences with a verb? To be or not to be does not start with a preposition. It starts with an infinitive verb. |
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Feb 1 |
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Is it frustrating not to know the narrator's gender? One example of YA writing which does this well is The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tylor. You assume, naturally, that the narrator is a boy. She isn't. |
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Feb 1 |
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Does there have to be a difference when writing different genders? "For example, a formally educated high class woman is not likely to curse like a dock worker." Well, I have no idea what you mean by "high class", but educated people, men and women, swear all the time. So do upper class people. "High class" is, I suspect, somewhat different to "upper class", and implies value judgements I don't share. |
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Feb 1 |
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I cannot determine my Protagonist's work-life. Any help? Read Ben Goldacre's book Bad Pharma. It'll give you some clues. |
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Jan 11 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Jan 11 |
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What genre appeals to the widest audience? CS Lewis, when talking about writers who had no sympathy for sci-fi who wrote it anyway because it was popular, called them "displaced persons". Anyway, I prefer the ungenred to the hypergenred. |
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Oct 13 |
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The opposite sex in first person? If you actually want to know how men and women speak, get hold of The Myth of Mars and Venus, by Deborah Cameron, which blows John Gray's book out of the water as the pseudocientific bullshit it is. Cameron is a linguist and a professor, and her book is based on actual research and data, but is highly accessible. |
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Oct 13 |
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Use of present-tense for memory-related shenanigans in a past-tense story ... I never forgot Eve? |
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Oct 13 |
answered | Will the word “seek” be associated with the word “sick” if it is present in the title of my book? |
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Jun 13 |
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How much swearing is TOO much? (And how much is not enough?) One thing to consider is that swear words often seem "stronger" on the printed page than they are in a spoken medium, so you should probably use fewer of them. But do still feel free to use them. And definitely don't star them out. F*nger. |
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Oct 5 |
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How To Avoid Using Cliches In Storylines? Tropes are not bad. |
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Sep 13 |
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How much sex is allowed in a non-romance novel? Old ladies don't like reading about sex? News to me. |
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Aug 5 |
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What's the modern way to handle gender in tech writing? @Lauren. "just because people have been doing it wrong for four hundred years doesn't make it right". Well, yes, actually, it does. If you don't define the rules of English from the way it's used by native speakers, how do you define them? |
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Jun 3 |
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What's the modern way to handle gender in tech writing? I share your dislike of singular they, but it's not wrong. It's been attested in the literature for centuries. |
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Jan 18 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 14 |
answered | Writing for an Audio book. What are specifics? |
