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Tagged with non-fiction fiction
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What challenges are there in writing a fantasy cookbook?
I ask mostly out of curiosity. Obviously, a proper cookbook would involve real ingredients and not fantasy creatures. There's such a cookbook for Skyrim and Lord of the Rings. What I am curious about ...
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Is my work fiction or non-fiction?
I am currently working on a story. I would like to publish this on a literary magazine website, and this website has only three categories - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
My story is probably ...
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The genre of a book based on author's real life [closed]
I want to start writing, but it would be about myself - my life. And all the 'characters' are real people that are still alive.
Therefore, before I start writing, I need information about what other ...
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How to expand my vocabulary? [duplicate]
I wanted to write something for a long time. But what I think is, in writing the choice of words plays a very significant role. From where I can learn this thing?
I think I don't have enough words in ...
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Should I create a fictional college if students go missing in my script?
I’m writing a fictional drama/crime/mystery sceenplay.
In my script, college kids go missing from a REAL University.
I like the realism and academic profile of an actual University, but would this ...
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Commonly accepted term for ways to present book content?
Without regard to genre, is there a commonly accepted term for the various ways that book content can be presented?
For instance, consider the following (an incomplete list):
Dialogue
Diaries
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Is a dramatization of a true story classified as fiction or nonfiction?
I am writing a short story which is a dramatization of a true story. When I classify it, should I tag it as fiction or nonfiction?
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Start writing literature without reading experience [closed]
I am a person who has neither read many literary works nor speaks English as a native language. For a while now, I have become interested in writing and would like to get better on it. Therefore, I ...
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Is there a term for a fiction piece that goes after the prologue but before the epilogue?
I'm writing a long non-fiction text that describes a fictional setting.
I came up with a fiction piece for that setting, to include as further illustration.
I decided it would work best if I split it ...
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Is it plagiarism to use something from a nonfiction work and put it into fiction?
I was reading about this Japanese dance style written by a man who taught it. He said that the style was uniquely Japanese and few outsiders could really dance in the style properly. He said that he ...
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Presenting Fiction as Non-Fiction
I am toying writing a book involving layered stories:
There is Manuscript A, written by a character, which is an ostensibly real account/diary of an incident she experienced.
In the fictional ...
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technical subjects - non-fiction vs fiction
This is a question I tried to ask in Novelizing non-fiction, is it worth it?
But was un-clear and maybe too generic.
Let’s say I am a scuba diving expert and I could write a non-fiction book about ...
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Novelizing non-fiction, is it worth it?
There are a few lifestyle subjects where I feel I need to write non-fiction books.
The problem is that in these fields, most of what is published is 101 intro manuals, while my takes to the field ...
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Are 'how-to write fiction' books full of it?
I built and sold a business during my first decade of adulthood. During that period, I read a lot of business books published by the popular press. However, I didn't begin to succeed until I ...
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What are the ethics of using real-world house addresses in historical fiction?
I am editing a novel manuscript for a client of mine. It's a historical fiction set in 1948, so not that long ago. The main character lives in a house above a cafe that I believe is fictional within ...
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What concrete steps do you take to write for a specific reading level?
People throw around reading levels when it comes to writing: "5th grade level," "10th grade level," "college level," etc.
What concrete steps do you take to write for a specific reading level? Is ...
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All persons fictitious - where to place it?
I've got an all persons fictitious disclaimer similar to the one mentioned at All persons fictitious disclaimer — ideas regarding modification? but where should I place it?
Bear in mind, this is a ...
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How do you write a fiction or non-fiction query letter to an editor?
What do you put in the letter? What if you have no experience, or only very limited experience. Should you write about yourself in the third or first person when explaining your experience?
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How can you submit your writings internationally?
I live in Argentina, and I've always wondered if (given the case of having something worthy) I'd be able to submit it to publishers in, for example, the USA. Of course the writing would be in English.
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