Demeter

I LOVE NAMES. One of my favourite girl names is Diana. Boy names are difficult. I like Charlie. And Alex.

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Hi there! I assume you mean "which one is correct?". I would definitely say "Buy one, get one free", whereas I've never heard of "Buy one free one". The latter ...

Sounds like Anna has had an eventful life! Congratulations for following your instincts. ;)

I think, in this case, an excellent idea is avoid the problem and rephrase the list, as Kyllorac has demonstrated above! However, in response to your original question, since the ...

That sounds really cool and unlike anything I've read before! I'm sure there are people out there with similar sort of plots, but after all, there aren't really any stories ...

I actually had to stop and think about the possible difference in the pronunciation. xD I automatically pronounce "Ralf" like "Ralph", mainly because "Ralf" is closer to the spelling we'd ...

Hi Territory! How exactly do you mean? :) Is there something new you'd like to try, or do you feel like you're not improving as much as you'd maybe like ...

I usually try to avoid this too, because I prefer all the characters having a unique name - not necessarily "unique" as it is, like Gh'azltanq, but unique to that ...

I like Watson - it's simple but not boring (though maybe Martin Freeman's Watson makes me a bit biased... :P). I also like the maiden name idea above, but in ...

I'm not sure if this is what you were going for, but for the other-than-English dialogue bits you can put the line in italics. So, if they were speaking French ...

I think it sounds rather interesting, because I love fairytales! I also like twists on known fairytales, so go for it. Although "Serena" reminds me too much of Gossip Girl...

Slightly updated! I added a section about whether to place the comma inside or outside the quotation marks.

I know it's been almost a year since the last post, but I just wanted to say that Jagged is right. xD You can use both. I used to only ...

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