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How Do I Overcome Writing "Scrupulosity" When Editing?
To start, it is impossible to leave a trail of perfect writing, because stories change as you write them, and create details and emotional scenes, as you invent them. You get to know your characters ...
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How Do I Overcome Writing "Scrupulosity" When Editing?
It is difficult to tell without being more familiar with you whether (1) you suffer from debilitating perfectionism, (2) your writing skill isn't yet developed enough, or (3) this is your way to write....
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How Do I Overcome Writing "Scrupulosity" When Editing?
This is a real thing that plagues writers. It saps creativity under an avalanche of self-criticism. I try and look at it as a measure of how good I writer I could be, if I’d get out of my own way. ...
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Tense change when referring to how protagonist currently is while he is describing events
There is an idea in story telling called the point of telling. It is the point of time when the narrator is telling the story from. In present tense, its now. In past tense, the point of telling ...
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Seeking advice on safeguarding my manuscript
No respectable publisher or agent will steal your story or ideas, because if this came out no one would ever want to work with them again and they would be out of business.
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Should this sentence use "might be" or "might have been"?
It's a matter of using simple or perfect past tense.
She suggested it might be a surprise from Harry
This is simple past tense. It conveys "now" in the past tense, the current flow of ...
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I am seeking for a partner to finish a fictional story. Where can I find somebody to work with me?
You are looking for a ghostwriter. In your search engine of choice, search for "ghostwriter wanted" or "where to find a ghostwriter" or variations thereof to find where ...
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Alternative words for genitalia
I would have a good look at your Shakespeare. The Bard was rather bawdy and lived in a time that's often jokingly called English's "Golden Age of Innuendos" for the sheer number of words ...
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