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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398 Answers

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30	How do you avoid purple prose?
27	Writing first programming book
23	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	Background speech with foreground dialogue
+10	Why does an author need an editor?
+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

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

315 fiction × 68	167 technique × 27
297 style × 62	153 plot × 25
208 creative-writing × 39	106 formatting × 25
184 editing × 31	105 dialogue × 21
172 novel × 27	92 technical-writing × 29