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What is the correct syntax for a thought combined with a beat that requires punctuation? For example: Oh no! he thought as the evil warlord turned to where he was hiding. Or: How do I get this stupid ...
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I am looking for a website that can give me symptoms, details, causes, and such about medical diseases and/or disabilities. I'm trying to write a book, and I need more details on diseases that cause ...
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In the story I'm writing, there is an action-packed scene where my main character is basically beaten to a pulp. It's supposed to be fast-paced with short sentences, and as you can imagine there is ...
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I've been trying to make a character that longs for a return to normalcy after entering "ACT II" Context: [He expresses discontent regarding moving and his sister leaving for college, ...
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An author on Archive Of Our Own (AO3) has given me permission to print their fic for physical annotation purposes. I am in the process of formatting it in Google Docs, and I have almost everything ...
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I've put in a lot of time sharing my scripts on a blog by scanning my hard copies. Note, I never upload the entire script and I usually just compose scenes and sequence length material. Does it really ...
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I’m working with long-form non-academic writing (blog posts, reports, AI-assisted drafts) where citations are not always perfectly formatted. Some citation-checking workflows classify sources into ...
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For some reason, though I could write prose poetically years ago, to a degree, often, when attempting to do so today, I fail. Back then, I had written a lot of verse, and also used a thesaurus. I can ...
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I have read several posts on the subject, but none of them provided an example of the same text in all three styles, so I decided to write my own examples. Am I doing this right? Any suggestions for ...
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Say you're writing dialogue in prose for a short story or novel, between two characters, is it acceptable to show character B's reactions to character A's dialogue in the following fashion? All of ...
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I am crafting a story about how someone travels up a river to explore a past memory. I have two general directions (and many diversions within those directions) which I am having a hard time deciding ...
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By way of context for this question, I teach English literature at a small Catholic high school to juniors and seniors. Although we spend most of our time reading and discussing, we also do a lot of ...
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I want to write a story about a man’s life and when deciding to move to the west coast two possible story lines play out. Are there any examples of this to reference??
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I took Latin back in highschool (long ago now) and my favorite part of it was learning about the literary devices, a lot of which are still used in English poetry today. There was a particular ...
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I am drafting an abstract for a mathematics article and wrote the following sentence: We are interested in the semigroup of idempotents of the endomorphism ring of an injective module. The repeated ...
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