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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Mar 28	comment	Is it acceptable practice to use contractions in a fictional first person narrative for children? "A six year old using a contraction "isn't" wouldn't ring true to me" -- can you unpack this? I've been thinking about this statement since you posted it, and my experience doesn't jibe with it.
Mar 27	comment	Is it acceptable practice to use contractions in a fictional first person narrative for children? @JSBձոգչ Children's stories -- as in, pre-school and earlier -- really don't use contractions; that part made sense. When you're learning the language from a very basic level, you need to learn what do not actually means before you figure out that you can also say don't.
Mar 27	revised	Effective techniques for describing pain deleted 7 characters in body
Mar 27	revised	Effective techniques for describing pain fxed typo
Mar 27	comment	Is it acceptable practice to use contractions in a fictional first person narrative for children? I amended your title, because I think it makes an enormous difference. I can't conceive why anyone would worry about contractions otherwise.
Mar 27	revised	Is it acceptable practice to use contractions in a fictional first person narrative for children? edited title
Mar 26	comment	How can I consistently distinguish among tables, fields, and records in a database? I think your sentence-level formatting is excellent. I'd have to see an example of the relational database, but it sounds like you have a good idea.
Mar 23	answered	Critique wanted for a fantasy prologue
Mar 19	comment	What is the correct way to write a fractional number in a formal letter? @Jay I'm not stepping into a steel-cage death math for anything less than "the fight to ban impactive, impactful, and the use of impact as a verb when not applied to meteorites."
Mar 19	answered	How to tell or retell basic character and setting information in a series?
Mar 18	comment	What is the correct way to write a fractional number in a formal letter? @Jay Yeah, I wouldn't get in the steel cage over it either. Neither is wrong.
Mar 18	answered	Effective techniques for describing pain
Mar 17	comment	Writing competitions Why does the publisher have to accept only under X age?
Mar 16	comment	Writing competitions :) No, sorry, I was being snarky. "A winning competition for a novel" is getting a publishing contract.
Mar 16	comment	Writing competitions a publishing contract?
Mar 16	comment	What to name the parts of my thesis @Mythio I understand the desire to stand out. I'm just saying that "stand out" doesn't necessarily mean "outré." First be clear. Then be clever.
Mar 15	comment	Does this qualify as a prelude or prologue? Tightened up a little to make the last line more of a punch, yes, that's a nice hook. It would work fine as a prologue.
Mar 15	comment	Does this qualify as a prelude or prologue? I have never heard of the prologue posing a super question. I can see how it should be a hook, but if the book has no prologue, the first chapter has to serve that purpose, no? It's not like the prologue replaces the first chapter.
Mar 15	comment	Does this qualify as a prelude or prologue? Let me ask you: Why do you think it would be dis qualified? A prologue, literally, is "before the words" -- text which you are reading before the story starts. It doesn't have to be chronologically prior, although it usually is. If you stick it before "Chapter 1," it's a prologue.
Mar 15	comment	What is the correct way to write a fractional number in a formal letter? @Jay But you can have one third vs. two thirds. You can only have a half or you have a whole. "Five and one half" sounds pompous. Also, AP style is to use numerals above 10, not 20.