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"Creative writing" is a vague term, but generally means fiction, or writing that's not non-fiction, technical, or business writing. This tag should be used when asking questions that apply to multiple categories of creative writing, such as when asking questions that could apply to fiction or poetry alike.
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How do I refer to a trademarked object in fiction?
I don’t think trademark has anything to do with it. “Lego” is a proper name, so you capitalize it. If there is more than one, you put an “s” on the end to show that. So you get “his Legos.” You would …
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Describing a prison
If you already know it is California, Depression-era, then pick a real prison and use that as a setting. If you can find a prison that somebody has written a comprehensive book about, then choose that …
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Describing a Traumatic Silence
Consider putting in blank lines and/or many spaces between words to represent the silence. That makes the reader read “silence” and experience it along with the character. It is a fairly common poetry …
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Techniques for picture writing?
If you don’t have a narrative story to tell, you probably want to write poetry. You can find lots of articles on the Web that will help you get started writing poetry if you haven’t written any before …
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Can technical writing suck less
I think what you are missing is that all writing tells a story. Just because there is no love story or car chase, that does not mean your technical writing is not telling a story. You are just telling …
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Format for capitalizing quotes
The capitals are yours — they belong to your sentence, not the speaker’s sentence. So your sentence is capitalized correctly.
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Picking a place to start (In media res)
Kurt Vonnegut advised that writers “start as close to the ending as possible.”
I recommend you decide what is the best ending you have right now, and then write that book. After that book is done, yo …
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How to overcome the fact that I can't write long stories?
A key thing is to understand that a novel is not a long short story, it’s more stories. The ending likely remains very similar, but there are more stories preceding that ending.
One way to get more s …
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How should I write a height in feet and inches?
I recommend you don’t write it in feet and inches at all. Those are antique, non-standard measurements that are understood by maybe 10% of the world population, and that number is shrinking in size ev …
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Is it okay to publish a book at a young age?
I think whether or not you can get the book “published” is irrelevant. I recommend you don’t even concern yourself with that.
In the first place, you can publish it yourself, on your own website, or …
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Does writing in a certain mood change how a writer writes?
Everything about you on a particular day influences your creative output. Not only mood, but also how tired you are, what drugs you have been taking, whether you are hungry or not hungry or have eaten …
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How to hack Scrivener's appearance or add binder to full screen composition mode?
If you are focused on how Scrivener looks, then you might be missing the point of Scrivener. The idea there is to be immersed in your book and the writing of your book, not the app itself. Scrivener e …
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