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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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Aug 2 |
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First publication rights still available on this? @Steven, you're correct so long as it was just a commercial printer, as seems to be the case. But there are some "printers" that are actually more like self-publishers and which might have encumbered the rights in some way. |
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Aug 1 |
answered | First publication rights still available on this? |
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Jul 25 |
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Is it easy to change genre? italicized, corrected spelling |
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Jul 25 |
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What's a good resource to find Beta Readers for short stories? possible duplicate of Internet communities where I can read/rate/review short fiction, and post my own? |
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Jul 18 |
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Punctuation-Quote or Quote-Punctuation? This actually belongs on english.se, since it's a mechanical question about punctuation conventions. |
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Jul 18 |
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Defining Terms: To Capitalize or Not To Capitalize? retagged |
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Jul 14 |
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Jumping on the Zombie bandwagon Twilight Sparkle Zombie Romance. It's gonna be big, I'm telling you. |
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Jul 12 |
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How can I create drama in a story that is mostly political and procedural? I wanted to write my own answer here, but I think you've nailed it. Good job. |
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Jul 11 |
answered | How little “fantasy” can be in a story and it still be recognizably fantasy? |
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Jul 6 |
answered | Using a town to symbolize/represent a character within a story (fiction)? |
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Jul 6 |
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Using a town to symbolize/represent a character within a story (fiction)? I disagree that this is uncommon. Using place to represent a character's mood or relationships is a very common literary technique--not that this means that the OP shouldn't do it! |
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Jul 5 |
answered | How can I improve this description which includes actions? |
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Jun 29 |
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Formatting blog posts like the pros +1 for MegaPop. |
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Jun 10 |
accepted | When to accept an editor's rewrite request? |
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Jun 8 |
answered | Is character driven fiction more successful than plot driven fiction? |
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Jun 1 |
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Can a book be written without an antagonist? retagged |
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Jun 1 |
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World Building critique: Building an SF society off a tangent of “Adaptation” I don't see how this really answers the OP's question. |
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May 26 |
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Do books have to be written in sequence? "[B]ooks are good because of their characters" -- this is overly broad, and a lot of readers (and a lot of writers) would disagree. |
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May 24 |
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How Do you Stave Off Boredom While Writing? @Lauren, I'm exactly the same way as you. However, I've known writers who swear that they can't write a story if they do know what's going to happen. For them, the entire process of writing is a matter of discovering the characters and the plot, and if you already know the characters and the plot, then what's the point of writing the story? |
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May 24 |
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Writing about extreme trauma Additionally, I would be grateful to anyone that could suggest some better tags than these. |
