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How to find beta readers for a target audience I'm part of but I don't like to mingle with?
I have written a set of light novels which feature not-safe-for-work consensual, semi-explicit content. I am convinced that they might find an audience in readers that enjoy ecchi action manga series ...
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What should I do if my foreshadowing was too obvious and readers picked up on it immediately?
I have a conundrum. In a short web novel I'm writing, some of my foreshadowing was more blatant than I expected. My readers immediately picked up on it and were able to extrapolate an extremely ...
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How can I publish a book without the account being traceable to the person who owns the account?
I published a book on Amazon, but after reading 143 pages, the guy had it banned. I know he read 143 pages, because that was the average number of pages that people read, and he was my only customer ...
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How can I reference a do my math homework experience in a personal statement?
I am working on a short autobiographical piece and I am unsure how to describe a situation from my school years. At one point I was so overwhelmed with classes that I asked someone to do my math ...
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How do I show a character struggling to process important information?
So I am writing a story, and I am at the part where I am connecting the dots for my characters. It is all from one character's perspective (Aranyani). For some background, she has been having ...
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Help writing about family dynamics [closed]
I have postulated the following tenets of some family dynamics.
I wonder if anyone can help me expand on and write about them.
Here are the dynamics:
Who receives wants to give
Suppose a child ...
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Is it a copyright violation to use a name or description that is used by another book?
I’m writing a fantasy series, but I’m so worried about my world-building and my character names. Let me explain. Let’s say there’s a group of warriors who can wield magic from the Sun, and I named ...
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Can I leave a core story premise unexplained even in the end?
I'm writing a story about someone in the modern world getting a supernatural video game system. For example, he has stat attributes he can allocate stat points into to enhance himself, Skills that are ...
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How to write deliberately vague powers without making it contrived?
My stories involve people in the modern day having to deal with incomprehensible deities. The deities represent human collectives like nation-states or occupations; they are supposed to feel eldritch, ...
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Practice: Quantity or Quality
Many, giving advice to writers on how to enhance their writing skills, tell them to write prolifically. But others tell them to write short pieces, practicing individual skills with vigor. Which of ...
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Breaking tense rules in a poem
If I could go back in time
I wish I could be strong enough to tell you my truth
Can you break the rules relating to verb tenses in a poem? I see people do it, but they don't ever explain why they did ...
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What genre comes close, other than Young Adult?
I'm writing a series of four Young Adults novels, with math at the center. The characters learn math together. The reader will enjoy the books most if they work through some of the math themselves. I ...
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How can I improve my handwriting?
My handwriting is not steady, it always look messy, and I can't really write neatly as it looks so weird. Even I can't understand it myself.
How can I improve my handwriting?
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Where can I sell my manuscripts?
I have a few manuscripts I am selling. Can anyone point me in the direction of a place where I can do that?
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Stringing several nonfinite adjunct clauses together: Is my intuition wrong that this is poor style?
Important context: although I have a translation degree, English is my second language and my education never drilled in any high-level details about ideal stylistic choices. In this regard I rely ...