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82 Questions

Avoiding repetition when there are two unidentified individuals

Should we avoid writing fiction about historical events without extensive research?

How do we objectively assess if a dialogue sounds unnatural or cringy?

How to tell readers your story is a re-imagination of a popular story?

Describing a chess game in a novel

Should I use acronyms in dialogues before telling the readers what it stands for in fiction?

Ensuring that character dialogues sound like they are coming from different people

Is using an 'empty' metaphor considered bad style?

Writing dialogues for characters whose first language is not English

How do we create new idioms and use them in a novel?

What are some ways of extending a description of a scenery?

What can we do to make sure that our novels are in the public domain as soon as we die?

How do we edit a novel that's written by several people?

Describing sex in a non-erotic fiction

Outsourcing people to make a cover [closed]

What are the words that were used during Shakespeare's time that are seldom used nowadays?

Showing that a character is in pain in a dialogue

Writing the dialogues of characters who are much smarter than you

What do you call a fact that doesn't match the settings? [closed]

Are fictional inventions trademarked?

How should we write a passage where a character sings?

How do we spread a story across several different media without alienating our readers?

Is there a website that tells you which D&D creatures are under copyright protection?

How can we incorporate poems in a novel?

Do we need to find another publisher when we want to publish our novel in a different language in another region?

When should we redefine a term that's used in a different way in the book we're writing?

Is it a good idea to post a story in a fanfiction website, and then seek to have it published later on?

How to cue in our readers that we are using an uncommon symbolism?

Using time travel without creating plot holes [closed]

Translating non-English lyrics to English