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Is having antagonists who believe in Christianity potentially offensive/harmful?

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When is prosody in fiction too ornate?

prose

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A question on comma usage

academic-writing punctuation proofreading

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How long should character bios be for a TV treatment?

planning scriptwriting

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Turn 'Why' into a two syllable word

word-choice

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Any resources for writing in Anglish?

style word-choice software language

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How do you find lyrics with the parts labelled?

lyrics

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What are the legal protections for fictionalized autobiographies?

legal

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Where can I publish poems I translated to Pali?

publishing self-publishing resources language

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When writing an American Indian character, how to ensure an accurate and sensitive portrayal as a cultural outsider?

fiction characters resources research

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Writing unique character-based dialogue?

dialogue word-choice videogame

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Is it silly to ask a writer to finish my script, but follow my key points

screenwriting videogame

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How can I answer high-school writing prompts without sounding weird and fake?

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How do you give an extroverted protagonist a dynamic character arc and make it interesting?

characters character-development

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Is it easy to change genre?

genre pseudonym

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Example of a fictional story without any characters (the story being 1000+ words)

characters structure

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Starting a sentence one word before a new line

technical-writing formatting

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Referring to sign language in conversations

dialogue language

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How should I write "shush" in a narrative?

style dialogue

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How to have a clearer thesis statement?

essay clarity

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Email Signature of a Complicated Name

email

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Journalist interview etiquette

journalism

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Does making a young protagonist necessarily mean that it is a children/preteen book?

psychology-of-writing

answered Oct 23 at 20:00 M. A. Golding 1,757

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I struggle to make characters emote during dialogue

creative-writing novel dialogue fantasy

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How do writers in spy fiction overcome problems by naming countries accused of heinous crimes?

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First-person, present-tense novels where the plot arcs on deep change within the protagonist's life from the negative to the positive

novel character-development book-rec

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How many words in 350 pages typed and double spaced?

wordcount

modified Oct 22 at 20:29 Kevin Nettles 285

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How do you make superpowers interesting in a written medium?

style setting magic-system

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Is it possible to mix a script and a screenplay into one?

screenwriting scriptwriting script

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How to Paraphrase a narration which is written by a first person perspective

formatting

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How do you indicate that an action is done after a character says something in a script?

formatting script

answered Oct 21 at 8:03 Michal Burgunder 752

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Sudden diary entry within a 3rd person limited story

science-fiction narrative grammatical-person third-person

answered Oct 20 at 22:54 DWKraus 9,990

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Darkness/ suffocation poem [closed]

creative-writing technique description

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Brain transplant movie or documentary story writing [closed]

characters plot narrator narration story

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Ways to construct a temporary medieval road block? [closed]

creative-writing plot ideas comics

answered Oct 20 at 8:20 CommunityBot 1

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How to punctuate a list of quoted questions

punctuation quotes

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Have merpeople been depicted this way in a story before?

fantasy marketing genre tone

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Is it bad if you start all your chapters with a description of the surroundings?

creative-writing description chapters

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What's the best word order for the sentences below? [migrated]

style

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How do you write a YouTube description for a music clip?

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Could I reach the level of good writing style as non-native language speaker?

style language

modified Oct 18 at 15:13 Gijs 1

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How can I write an authentic depressed character? [duplicate]

creative-writing characters

answered Oct 18 at 14:11 Spencer Barnes 616

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How do you write a character that has a different worldview than your own?

characters character-development research psychology-of-writing historical-fiction

answered Oct 18 at 13:49 Phil S 101

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Can point of view style change between chapters?

pov tone

answered Oct 18 at 9:16 Easmond Codjoe 11

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How can I show characters dealing with rejection?

characters showing-telling emotions

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How to length chapters in book [closed]

creative-writing novel book-length

answered Oct 18 at 6:59 bvcolic 608

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Should a password/username be written in quotes or italics?

formatting

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How do I keep the gender of my main character purposely ambiguous?

fiction gender pov ambiguity

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