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| bio | website | jsbangs.com |
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| location | United States | |
| age | 31 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | May 15 at 19:01 | |
| stats | profile views | 54 |
I have a degree in Linguistics, but I work as a programmer. Most of my expertise about English is self-taught, plus lots of random trivia I've acquired here and there.
This is my favorite EL&U comment ever:
This isn't really a question about English so much as a question about hugs. Source
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May 16 |
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What binding and paper should be used on a self-printed novel? Is this really on-topic? |
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May 4 |
answered | Sympathetic portrayal of an evil protagonist with good motivations |
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May 1 |
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How should I use phrases such as “uh huh”? With your edits, this question is probably acceptable here, but I think that the OP would be better served by asking at english.stackexchange.com. |
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May 1 |
answered | Are online critique groups a good substitute for editors? |
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Apr 30 |
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The ethics of multiple contest submissions Personally, I wouldn't consider contests to be a very good gauge of how good your writing is, since there are lots of contests, and most of them bring very little by way of payment, credibility, or validation. Instead, you might consider searching Duotrope for markets for your stories and submit there. This will be harder, but will give you a much better picture of how good your story is. |
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Apr 30 |
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The ethics of multiple contest submissions And just to be completely clear, aside from the restriction on simultaneous submissions, there is absolutely no ethical or legal restriction on sending the same story to multiple markets. |
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Apr 24 |
answered | Creating a compelling story from a prebuilt world |
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Mar 27 |
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Are there any syllable-counting applications for poety writing? I don't think that any such software exists. Additionally, I'm not sure what purpose it would serve: if you aren't fluent enough in English to know how many syllables are in a word (and therefore in a line, etc.), then you're going to have a pretty big problem writing poetry of any kind. |
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Mar 9 |
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Problems with constructing a complex sentence with many ideas in it This question is better suited for Writers.se than for English.se. |
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Feb 7 |
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Would a paid-for review from Kirkus give me real insight into quality of my manuscript? Aside from the options mentioned below, I have to plug the Online Writing Workshop as the best critique group I've ever seen. |
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Jan 17 |
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How to summarize prolonged plot Related to @KateSherwood's comment, if the main selling point of your book is it's humor, then the main selling point of your query had better be humor. You're never going to convince your agent that your novel is funny if your query is a wet sack. |
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Jan 17 |
answered | How does one present spoken dialogue as a secondary language to signed speech? |
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Dec 13 |
asked | Front-matter or back-matter? |
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Dec 8 |
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Using “the reader” or “the readers” Made title more explicit, reformatted somewhat |
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Dec 8 |
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How to discover clichés I have to downvote this. TVTropes is good for many things, but (a) a trope is not a cliche, and (b) TvTropes is too big and disorganized to be much use for something like this. |
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Dec 6 |
answered | emacs for creative writing |
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Dec 5 |
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emacs for creative writing I have an excellent Vim setup, most of which I wrote myself, but I can't help you with emacs. |
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Nov 19 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Nov 14 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Nov 14 |
awarded | Enlightened |
