Lauren Ipsum

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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning. — Mark Twain

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397 Answers

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30	How do you avoid purple prose?
27	Writing first programming book
22	Why does an author need an editor?
21	Good Outlining Solutions For OSX?
20	Which words should not be capitalized in Title Case?

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+10	How to assure your plot isn't a carbon copy of another story?
+10	Placing similes at the beginning and at the end of a sentence
+20	Short exclamation to mean: “This is driving me crazy.”
+10	Is it strange if a novel starts the first chapter without one of main characters?

6 Questions

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21	Editors: Edit on first read, or read and edit on second round?
9	What's “fair use” for borrowing someone else's invented term?
8	How does one present spoken dialogue as a secondary language to signed speech?
5	A cross-[What] kind of romance?
5	Is there a name for this kind of sentence structure?

171 Tags

314 fiction × 68	166 technique × 27
297 style × 62	152 plot × 25
208 creative-writing × 39	105 formatting × 25
183 editing × 31	104 dialogue × 21
171 novel × 27	92 technical-writing × 29