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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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How do you calculate the length of your manuscript? added 9 characters in body |
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Apr 3 |
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How do you calculate the length of your manuscript? added 910 characters in body; deleted 336 characters in body |
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Apr 3 |
awarded | Editor |
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Apr 3 |
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How do you calculate the length of your manuscript? added 379 characters in body |
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Apr 3 |
answered | How do you calculate the length of your manuscript? |
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Apr 3 |
answered | Should I write an abstract for a formal essay? |
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Apr 3 |
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How to practice location descriptions Thank you for your kind words. But since you are addressing me in particular, you might want to put this into a comment at the end of my response instead of making it a full-fledged answer of your own. Otherwise you are offering this to the OP as a complete response. |
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Apr 3 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Apr 3 |
accepted | Submitting a novel for publication: do editors still expect Courier font? |
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Apr 2 |
answered | How to practice location descriptions |
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Mar 23 |
awarded | Student |
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Mar 23 |
asked | Submitting a novel for publication: do editors still expect Courier font? |
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Mar 22 |
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Why is “It was a dark and stormy night..” not a good opening? @z7sg: Well, there are still more interesting things to say about a night other than to note its darkness in an unexceptional way. The bare word shows the reader nothing. Here's an example of the word dark used well by Ayn Rand: "He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points." |
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Mar 22 |
answered | Why is “It was a dark and stormy night..” not a good opening? |
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Mar 14 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Mar 13 |
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Please help me improve this sentence… The way you wrote it resulted in an imperfect parallelism of tenses. My suggestion works better because both clauses are rendered in simple past tense, even though the second expresses the idea of something about to happen at a future time. |
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Mar 12 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Mar 12 |
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Rhetorical devices in Frankenstein @Ralph Gallagher: That's what I'm wondering. I answered it on English.SE. |
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Mar 12 |
answered | Please help me improve this sentence… |
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Mar 12 |
awarded | Teacher |
