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Should you avoid using hard-to-describe gestures and acts in a novel?
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Should my character speak like an layman or a Latin teacher?
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Will what worked 'back then' work today? (Novels)
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How do you tell your reader that a number is a numerologically important number?
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How can I stop overusing “I” in my writing?
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How and where should you explain how the physical laws of your sci-fi universe significantly differ from the real world?
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Websites for free feedback on stories?
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How many people are writing novels?
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Can novels have twist endings?
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How to avoid overdoing deconstructive tendencies in writing?
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Is it ok to hide main motive of the character throughout the book?
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Is going 'off-topic' a sign of bad dialogue?
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How do you escalate a story's plot after killing the Big Bad?
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How can we incorporate poems in a novel?
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What is it called when poets changing grammar rules?
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New story in 'same universe'. When is it a sequel? How to title?
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Horror. Where to start?
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How to decide how far my antagonist is willing to go?
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Best practice for academic writing: write and cite or write first?
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How to describe sound? [closed]
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Referring to nameless protagonists in essays
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Should I use the term vis-à-vis? How should I decide when to use/avoid a term?
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Plot and characters conflict too much
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Why is having too many symbols a bad idea?
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How do I write about hacking and hackers? [duplicate]
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What sites are available for hosting Choose Your Own Adventure stories?
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How can you show that a character is feeling amazing?
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How many pages is a 90,000-word manuscript supposed to be?
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How do I successfully structure a long fiction piece?
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Should I write the actual death scene?
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Synonym recommendations for “chuckle?” [closed]
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Best markup language for a little story?
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What do I do when I know the general summary of how a scene goes but I cannot figure out precisely what the character say?
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How to research and discover topic popularity and trends to determine topic selection for article writing?
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What methods does Rowling use to establish Dumbledore as being wise and trustworthy?
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Is there more to writing than just the good guys versus the bad?
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What's a good LaTeX template for self-publishing a short children's book?
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Why do most style guides miss out the 'degrees' when reporting temperature?
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How does one describe somebody who is bi-racial to someone who is blind? [closed]
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Converting/rewriting present tense narratives to past tense gracefully. Not a question about verb conjugation
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I thought I understood tenses
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Getting Prose to Flow
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How do you cite song lyrics parenthetically in MLA?
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How can I diversify the personalities of supernatural predators?
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Onomatopoeia usage, how much of it detracts from the story?
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How can you tell that you have what it takes to be an author?
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Words use to describe racing heartbeat
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How do you insert lyrics into a novel?
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Are too many exclamations wrong?
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What should phrases like “um” or “erm” be replaced with?
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How to explain the cold [closed]
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Should a villain have redeeming qualities
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Tracing the line between a (genuinely) dramatic and a melodramatic/over-dramatic story
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Out of this world… Giving it time?
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Can a protagonist with questionable morals be appreciated?
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What pronouns should I use for a character with no gender?
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How do you describe things without making a list of characteristics?
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Evoking happiness in a very short story
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Can I use “I” in an essay?
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How to deal with seriously ill characters and what type of illness should I give them
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