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Are there some ways to use wiktionary to find related terms more easily?
https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=insource%3A+ship&ns0=1
I was trying to use insource to find all terms related ...
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Visual collaborative platform to plan a book
I have searched and found some tools for writing, but I need a platform to be able to plan a book - can anyone point me in the right direction? This is for a group of people who want to plan and ...
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Where can I find resources about writing "Choose your own adventure"-style books?
I have read/played a couple of "Choose your own adventure"-style book and am interested in the process of creating one.
Where can I find (preferrably free) online resources, such as How-To-Write or ...
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Searching for character relation map software
I've started working on a project and wanted to keep all my characters and their relationships well organised.
I'm already using TiddlyWiki to archive all the ideas about the world and its ...
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What is an appropriate forum for asking off-topic, story-based questions?
I'm looking for a good website/blog/forum for posting questions that are technically off-topic for this website. I am looking for something that would allow me to post about story-based things, such ...
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Multiple continues references in Microsoft office word 2013
I'm writing a paper for IEEE using Microsoft office Word 2013. I want to use dynamic reference which is available in this version of Word. In a place of my article the references are similar to:
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Writing technique resources
Are there resources (books, blogs...) which describe proven techniques to obtain certain effects? For example: you will obtain this effect if you use the first person, effective ways to describe fear, ...
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Do word lists indexed by domain exist?
Are there any compilations of lists of words by domain?
For example, there could be a domain 'Literature' and it would include the words
writer, reader, critic, book, essay, novel, publisher, ...
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Tools or communities for word association?
Are there any tools or online communities that deal with word association? I'm looking for a resource where I could poll for common associations for a particular word. If you do know of such a tool ...
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Do you use a pop-up dictionary/thesaurus on Windows? What are your criteria?
I used to use WordWeb as a pop-up dictionary/thesaurus while I wrote, but I found it lacking, particularly in its inability to let me define my own terms per context (for example, when writing about ...
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How to practice location descriptions
When trying to strengthen my writing on how to correctly describe a location I try to write a small text on each location I am. (These are then saved in Evernote so that I can search for them) I found ...
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Which edition of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style?
I'm interesting in picking up a copy of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style. Unfortunately I'm a little overwhelmed by the minor variations. Amazon lists 12 different paperback formats, plus a ...
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Is this character generator useful?
After some feedback from this site and a training course, I developed a little tool to help with character generation. It's called "20 Questions" and works just like that: It picks 20 questions (or ...
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