Unanswered Questions
22 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Writing a character with amnesia
I'm working on a webcomic in which the main character has amnesia from head trauma. She was an experiment and when escaping she hit her head. She has one sentence of dialogue to the other main ...
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What do you need to do to insure that text bubbles are localization friendly in comics?
What do you need to do to insure that text bubbles are localization friendly in comics? You gave a script and the artist filled the text bubbles she drew, but how do you know if the text bubbles are ...
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Text Appearing Between the Lines in Scrivener
I have been editing scrivener across devices, and when I edit text across multiple devices, the text appears midway between the lines. I can find no way to prevent this from happening in the first ...
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wordplay phenomena
Hello I'm new to wordplay I want to ask about eggcorn, malapropisms and mondegreens because i am an amateurish noob.
Here's a synopsis to a fantasy novel.
in a world with alien cows with alien udders ...
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How to make metaphors make sense in a writing instead of making it out of topic
I was writing something that I thought of couple days ago.
It was about the people's mindset that they created throughout their life, and I wanted to describe it in a metaphorical way.
Now to make ...
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Getting it across
I'm having trouble wording something so people understand it.
I have a man across the street from someone holding up a wallet in the air up to another guy across the street. The guy across the street ...
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How do you change from omniscient narration to unreliable narration and vice versa in a comic book without speech balloons?
How do you change from omniscient narration to unreliable narration and vice versa in a comic book without speech balloons? I am guessing you need to put square speech balloons, to switch from ...
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You have purple prose, and you have basic writing- What's the median called?
To start with, you have a form of description and furtherance of the intended narrative composed almost wholly of a horribly verbose and impenetrably confusing style known disaffectionately as "...
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Need help in figuring out how to write dialogue as if my mouth was full (+18)
I saw a similar question, but it didn't really have the answer I was seeking and it wasn't concerned with the same thing — sucking someone, thus the full mouth. I saw an answer there that suggests ...
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How do you do branching endings in a comic book?
There are sometimes 2 or more endings in video games. In video games, it's simple because the ending is determined by the character choices, but in a comic book, it's not too obvious so how would you ...
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Alternative sites to Google Docs
I'm looking for websites that let me write and store my stories online, so I can keep developing them no matter where I go. (Because of my devices specs, sadly Dropbox — and similar options that need ...
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Indianisation of "Thank You, M'am" written by Langston Hughes
Thank You, M'am
To Indianise the story, along with the name of the character & place, the story has to be adapted in an Indian context and style. Both style and context are critical here.
Langston ...
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When using an allegory from another book, do you have to stick to the most mainstream interpretation of the book?
When using an allegory from another book, do you have to stick to the most mainstream interpretation of the book? Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain used Moby Dick as an allegory. Although I am not ...
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Is there an encyclopedic book with all the various formatting styles found in novel since the beginning of history?
Is there an encyclopedic book with all the various formatting styles found in novel since the beginning of history? I would like to read one to see what are all the different formatting options you ...
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How do you add information about the music, sounds, camera actions in a trailer script?
Format your script elements. There are several different parts of the
script that require specific formatting so that they conform to
industry standards:[10]
Scene Heading: This is also called a “...
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