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How can I recognize and take constructive criticism?
There are stories that aren't written for the majority of people but for a small(er) subset of them. Not everyone likes steampunk, for example, and there are niches beside the larger mainstream genres ...
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How does one write a paper "in character?" I don't know how to begin
I'd personally love writing something like that
Anways, you're gonna have to do a lot of research. Maybe read some biographies and (if you can) watch the Oppenheimer movie. You need to learn what he's ...
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Which Is Clearer: 'Being pressed' or 'Pressed'?
In this case, 'pressed against the wall' is more concise and direct. 'Being pressed against the wall', however, has a more nuanced tone and suggests a more continuous state of being pressed against ...
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How can I recognize and take constructive criticism?
I think you don't understand the author's job.
The author of a story imagines the situation, the scenes, the characters, and their personalities, and does the engineering to turn this into a coherent ...
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Which Is Clearer: 'Being pressed' or 'Pressed'?
While "Being pressed" is grammatically correct, I would never use it over the other option. The use of "Being" is awkward and adds just nothing to the sentence. In fact, it gets in ...
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How does one write a paper "in character?" I don't know how to begin
I notice that the assignment does not require you to use a particular form of document. This gives you a lot of leeway. You could envision "what would Oppenheimer write for a historical ...
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How does one write a paper "in character?" I don't know how to begin
Think about how one of your friends would tell you what she did on the weekend. ("Yesterday me and my mom went to visit my grandparents.")
Now imagine you would write a story about what ...
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How to refer to alternate versions of a character in a non-sci-fi way?
The way you're doing now is perfectly fine. It isn't confusing if it's only two Alices at a time and using "this Alice" to refer to the alternate fates.
However, if more than once fate is ...
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