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23 Questions

How/When to create deliberately boring characters?

How do authors incorporate languages they don't speak?

How do I cleanly show the passage of time, with multiple, varying time scales?

How do you find your unique style?

How are multilingual scenes handled when the story's main language is translated into that of its minor one?

Effective ways to enrich your active vocabulary? [duplicate]

Converting Word pages to book pages, for novels?

How many different words are in the average novel?

How do you estimate the length of your screenplay in screentime?

How do screenwriters incorporate song scenes into a screenplay for a musical?

Why are some words in screenplays set in all caps?

How do authors gain strong familiarity with archaic and extremely rare words?

How can I develop my ideas?

Should you specify camera action in a film script?

How to plan dialog and keep it on track?

How does joint authorship work?

How to deal with things that still exist when writing in past tense?

Do script readers start at the beginning?

Avoiding "and" as a sentence structure

When to use single quotes in narrative writing?

How to tell if my story is finished, or needs more?

How do you get into screenwriting?

Is there a term for a redundant phrase in a movie's script added purely to over-explain to the audience what's occurring?