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| location | United States | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 3 months |
| seen | Apr 8 at 16:41 | |
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I want patience and I want it now.
Also, I find that nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Laziness is what gets me out of bed in the morning.
正宗で大根を切る。
言い出しっぺ。
Some of the smartest things people have ever said:
No language makes perfect sense. — John McWhorter
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. — Carl Jung
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. — George Santayana
Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. — Savielly Tartakower
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision — Bertrand Russell
Every good thing that happens in your life is a gift. — Yours Truly
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May 16 |
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What sites can I use to crowdsource my writing project? Let me get this straight. You want to crowd-source your writing project, and also you want to crowd-source the crowd-sourcing? |
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May 15 |
answered | Why is this ‘loved’ italicized? |
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May 11 |
answered | Quoting text from a country with different internationalization. |
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May 11 |
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Quoting text from a country with different internationalization. Are you translating the German into English? |
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May 7 |
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What are some possible reasons of why my readers preferred this “writing” over the others two? Also, I believe you mean thanks for the critiques. A critic is a person who judges the merits of something, and a critique is a written or spoken analysis such as might be made by a critic. |
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May 7 |
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What are some possible reasons of why my readers preferred this “writing” over the others two? Pure means undiluted or unadulterated, over-amped means overblown, opaque refers to something capable of hiding things from view, bathos is "an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous" [NOAD], and muddy means something that is mixed up or not clear. |
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May 7 |
answered | What are some possible reasons of why my readers preferred this “writing” over the others two? |
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May 5 |
answered | English writers IDE |
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Apr 30 |
awarded | Enthusiast |
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Apr 24 |
answered | In what order should I describe a setting? |
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Apr 20 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 20 |
answered | Explicitly correcting yourself while writing - how appropriate is it ? |
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Apr 18 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Apr 13 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Apr 13 |
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What is the Priority in an Action/Adventure Novel: Dialogues or Conflict? @Neil Fein: Imaginary? Feh! Again I say: Feh! A writer may laugh at science, but science always wins in the end. Fear me! |
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Apr 13 |
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What is the Priority in an Action/Adventure Novel: Dialogues or Conflict? Well, according to my calculations it's 57.532% action, 38.17% "dialogues" and 4.702% other. No bestseller has ever deviated by more than .003% from this formula. |
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Apr 9 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Apr 8 |
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Why does using this “-ing” verb construction make my writing weaker? @justkt: The comma is optional. But I cheated a little by leaving it in (which I agree is weaker), since the intermediate edits are just steps toward my final suggestion. I believe it's strongest to end with the simple action clause rather than a meandering explanation of the action. |
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Apr 8 |
answered | Why does using this “-ing” verb construction make my writing weaker? |
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Apr 6 |
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What's a clear way to simulate web text in a story? To make it even more realistic, DON'T FORGET 2 TYPE IN ALL CAPS AND MAKE SURE UR MISPELING WORDS N STUF LOLZ!!! |
