John Smithers

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Apr 1	answered	Expression or word like “aura” that can be used to describe a “force” of death enveloping your body?
Mar 31	comment	For Kindle, are hard paragraph breaks that serious? Hm, why should hard-breaks be a problem? That sounds weird. Maybe the real problem is the text indentation of the new paragraph. Soft-breaks are normally done with Shift+Return.
Mar 30	revised	Tips for writing sentences like a native speaker enhanced readability
Mar 27	comment	Is it acceptable practice to use contractions in a fictional first person narrative for children? May I suggest that you provide an example with and without contractions, so we all know what you are talking about?
Mar 27	answered	How can I consistently distinguish among tables, fields, and records in a database?
Mar 21	comment	Writing competitions Yes, there are.
Mar 15	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on Should freelance writers keep their online business separate from offline?
Mar 8	comment	How should we go from Stack Exchange Q/A to publishable PDF with the least hassle? johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc - github.com/walle/gimli
Mar 6	comment	How much power does the author have over an original work? Some day I will write an essay about the power of commas. Obviously not this day. Thanks, @JohnM.Landsberg. BTW, you can edit the post yourself.
Mar 6	revised	How much power does the author have over an original work? deleted 1 characters in body
Mar 6	awarded	Revival
Mar 5	answered	How to cite multiple chapters from same book in Vancouver style?
Mar 4	revised	How can I convey dates (with ordering) for events happening under different dating systems, e.g. a Sci-Fi story spread over the galaxy? edited body; edited title
Mar 2	comment	Does submitting multiple pieces to professional magazines (and being turned down) hurt chances of later stories that may be better-written? They would need a whole IT department just for maintaining that "connotation" database. Can you imagine how many stories these people reject each day? Do you really think they bother to store and maintain these rejection? Don't you think they have better things to do? No one puts you on a black list. Well, at least as long as you do not threat them ;)
Feb 28	awarded	Enlightened
Feb 28	awarded	Nice Answer
Feb 28	comment	How should I format a non fiction book with Scrivener? @Lauren: Obliquely? Me? I can negate that, because I've never encountered that adverb before ;) And why don't you answer: Use InDesign?
Feb 28	answered	How should I format a non fiction book with Scrivener?
Feb 25	comment	How to minimize language mistakes while writing Striving for perfection is the road to hell. You never ship, you always "improve".
Feb 22	comment	Writing from the middle Before you know that you are starting "in the middle", you need to have an idea of the beginning and the end (otherwise how should you know that it is the middle and not the end?). Depending on how do you know beginning and ending, you maybe can take your opening (which is the beginning) and the middle part (as new ending) and try to write the middle part of these two. Sounds weird? Well... The hardest part of the job is fooling yourself into writing.