Top new questions this week:
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I've just written such a paragraph:
He turned around and started walking to the nearby store. He bought a
bread and a yoghurt. Then he came back and gave the groceries to the
homeless guy.
There are ...
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How would you punctuate quotes for multiple people talking simultaneously in the same paragraph? I.e.,
They lined up and waited for the last bell of the day and cheered with their tiny voices, "...
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Sample text:
Dude had long been sceptical of abrupt changes in weather.
(Quoted from an Australian author.)
As an American, I was startled to see the alternative spelling of skeptical. Perhaps I am ...
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I'm writing about large subjects such as human society, human culture, and human behavior.
I need to identify and discuss various phenomena, and make specific arguments, but I also want to avoid the ...
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I have a scene where a character is recounting their side of a story in a courtroom. The character tells a good chunk of their story, and then we see the experiences he is recounting instead of his ...
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I am writing an action scene in which a character is thrown/falls and while they are flying through the air either the top or bottom half of their body hits an immovable object mid air, causing them ...
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Writing isn't like drawing, and I can't take a step back and look at it and search for flaws in the story, because it's in my head already, and I know it, and I can't forget it. So when I write I ...
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As selfish as this sounds, I’m really interested in having my own book printed physically for myself. I don’t intend to sell it or distribute it, and I’m primarily interested in having my book that I’...
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I had a quick question in regards to using P.S.
I just finished writing up a formal follow-up email for an interview. I touched over a lot of information and brought up some new topics.
Anyway, I ...
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The "not like other girls" trope is pretty common in young adult fiction, arguably misogynistic, and usually applied to a female protagonist or love interest. Attempts to make a female character ...
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I'm peer-reviewing/editing a paper for a final in my English course and in it, the author has a character singing a song (of the author's creation). The character is singing in dialogue, like so:
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I've been looking for a word to describe this tone of voice for a long time but never came across it.
Now let me just spread a pinch of context. It's a first person novel, and our protagonist is very ...
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I am a young author writing a fantasy series. When I was looking over my manuscript, I realized that in chapter seven I’d added a character named Autumn. She’s a tiny fairy who rides around on the MCs ...
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I see it quite a lot. It looks a bit like this:
It can be seen in Figure 3 that...
My gut feeling is that there is no reason to scream in the middle of a perfectly calm sentence. I would like to ...
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