Writers Weekly Newsletter - Friday, August 28, 2015

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Top new questions this week: How do I get rid of the tic of paired adjectives, predicates, etc.? In technical writing, I have a tic of writing in pairs. Some examples from a recent piece: "When you speak, be sure to be clear and concise." "Face to face conversation is personal and private." ... technical-writing editing   asked by philosophyguy 4 votes answered by Monica Cellio 3 votes Should I Kill My Main Character? I'm an aspiring writer who has been writing stories since Kindergarten (None released). Obviously I have a lot of experience, but I'm still unsure with extremely important things. As all of my Novels ... fiction   asked by MrWriterWannaBe 4 votes answered by Rex Feral 5 votes Techniques to avoid superlatives in intense fiction scenes I'm an aspiring writer and I'm finding it hard to not get swept up "in the moment" of the characters. What are some techniques to avoid superlatives and hyperbole in scenes that are meant to increase ... fiction   asked by HexTitan 3 votes answered by Rex Feral 2 votes George Orwell (1984) - Monologue I have a homework task which is to write an interior monologue on the character of Syme. For those that have read 1984, I was just wondering if it would be plausible to make his character as someone ... creative-writing book   asked by Garfunkel 2 votes answered by Faheem Mitha 2 votes How to turn an unknown detail in the story into a mystery instead of a lacking detail? I mean, how to make so that an undefined information in the plot be considered a mystery, i.e. an intentional unanswered question, instead of: ー　So, then what? ー　Well, this is an unknown fact ... creative-writing plot   asked by Bruno Lopes 1 vote answered by Dale Hartley Emery 4 votes Possible To Introduce A Character Through A Dialogue? In a screenplay, would it be okay to introduce a character through a dialogue? The character in question isn't given a background (in the ACTION) in the start since his first appearance is one where ... screenwriting   asked by Sampark Sharma 1 vote answered by Stephen 0 votes Do readers care about any kind of mystery? What makes them prefer one from another? Here are a few examples of mysteries (I just came up with them now): A. A woman finds out that a lost ancient city still exists. B. A man finds out that her death wife is actually alive. ... fiction creative-writing   asked by Alexandro Chen 1 vote answered by Dale Hartley Emery 5 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: What are the differences between narrative and descriptive writing? What are the differences between narrative and descriptive writing? While writing either what should we keep in mind? style   asked by Fahad Uddin 11 votes answered by malach 13 votes How many commas is too many? I find myself often in writing using too many commas, but then going through and editing many of them back out again or restructuring to use full-stops. Is there a rule of thumb I've forgotten from ... punctuation   asked by Neil Barnwell 8 votes answered by spiceyokooko 10 votes Can you answer these? In play writing, script writing or theatre is there a name for some exchange of dialogue between characters that is supposed to make a point? Suppose you want to show that two characters have some animosity towards one another. In some scene you set up a meeting between the characters in the elevator and an exchange of lines occurs. This ... character-development screenwriting playwriting   asked by unmircea 1 vote Tool to batch convert DOI to citations? I'm looking for an (online) tool to convert a long list of DOI's (1000+) into citation information. There are several tools that let you enter one DOI at a time, such as doi2bib or Crossref but those ... citations tools   asked by redfuse 1 vote

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