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Is there a way to make text feel like an unhinged rant while still being readable?

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How long does it take to publish in a magazine?

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How Exactly Are You Supposed To Write A Paragraph That Maintains A Consistent Theme Throughout?

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Novellas: How To Engage the Reader in a Character in Under 40,000 Words?

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Is it necessary to describe a character's physical appearance in a novel

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Question for "standalone with series potential" query

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What's the best way to visually sort data about characters?

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How do you write a submission for a previously published book (taken off the market by the author) and introducing a 2nd book in the original series

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Which Is Clearer: 'Being pressed' or 'Pressed'?

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Is there a collection of short stories for "Writing Fiction" by Janet Burroway

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How to provide translations, moods, and registry in multilanguage dialog within an narration in English?

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When you write a book that seeks to inform people about some issue or some event, how do you structure your book?

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Does it come off as weird/offensive to describe someone as 'brown' in partial reference to their skin color, but in absence of a specific descriptor?

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Language of other countries

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Do I need the comma before "not" in "X, not Y"? What about when they're quotes?

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Adult Fantasy with a protagonist like Arya Stark

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Past progressive in a novel

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Scrivener page numbering and prologue roman numerals

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Are there any websites that hire people to type up written documents?

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How do I make my characters sound British?

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What does it mean when people say your dialogue should have its own line? [duplicate]

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How do I write a fight scene between two characters when one is strong but slow and the other is strong, tough, and fast?

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Can I switch the POV of a main character? [duplicate]

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Am I legally allowed to expand someone else's short story into a novel?

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Metaphor or Personification

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Should I use 1st-person or 3rd-person perspective for an alien character alone in a post-apocalyptic world?

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How would the "one good member" of an evil organization/culture see themselves?

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How do I make a situation that looks like a planet will be destroyed, but without actually destroying it? [closed]

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How do I stop using 'the' to start sentences so much?

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meaning of a poem [closed]

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use of historical present in an installation for a museum

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Describing exclaimations from a group

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Does writing in a certain mood change how a writer writes?

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How to refer to alternate versions of a character in a non-sci-fi way?

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I have a character that has a slightly similar name to a title of a book. Do I have to change it even though it’s spelled completely different?

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Should I use a dash or a comma here?

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Capitalizing within a sentence

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How can I recognize and take constructive criticism?

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Does anybody know a good book on writing novels that covers complex storyweaving, multiplots, or parallel plotting?

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How to create dialogue in a book?

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Is there a smooth way to indicate that third person pronouns don't matter so much in my worldbuilding in English?

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Tagging dialogue lines with character names using hotkeys

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Should Greek or Norse mythology be used?

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Using the stages of grief to fall in love

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How to publish a Russian edition of a book on Amazon?

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Citations while writing a summary

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Blending First and Third Person: A Wording Question

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How does one write a paper "in character?" I don't know how to begin


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