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And if its too slow you fall and get splattered on the ground. Smaller planet+ slower rotation= a comparable gravity to Earth. No. The amount of gravitational force an object ...

I assume if you had a slower rotation then the gravity would be less Gravity would actually be more. Rotation results in a weaker effect of gravity because the people ...

Quality; not quantity. Wordcounts are meaningless when it comes to determining pacing because it doesn't take into consideration things like style and clarity. The best way for you to get ...

@MeanMrMustard Silly person. This article refers only to written forms of communication; not spoken. ;P Every time you write something with the intention of communicating, it is prose. Your post, ...

In a lot of cultures, due to its reflective properties, water is considered a portal to the world of spirits, especially if the body of water is still. Stagnant pools, ...

I have yet to figure out exactly what to make of OneNote. All I can say is that you'll probably learn more about the program through trial and error and ...

It's a cheap "twist" if you go the entire story without any indication that the events therein are anything but the reality of the story. In that case, you're basically ...

Reading your dialogue out loud (or having someone else read it aloud to you) is also a good idea. You'll be able to hear if something sounds unnatural, especially since ...

There's also "the plane blew apart/disintegrated into pieces of flaming shrapnel". Another possible route would be to describe the explosion indirectly. Stuff like, "Where once flew an enemy plane dri

Un Capitano Moro was written by Giovanni Battista Giraldi (also known as Giraldi Cinthio), with the Gil Hecatommithi being a collection of his stories, which is probably why you haven't ...

Which do you think is better? You know more about the story than we ever will, after all, so you're the best one to figure out which person would be ...

For a while now, I've noticed a trend towards using the term "prose" to refer poetry, and not in the sense that a poem was more prose-like* than traditionally poetic. ...

This international contest is a “double blind” competition. The judges, a collection of writers, academics, publishers, bookstore owners, and literary critics, will choose 10 finalists. All 10 fin

Short stories generally are broken up into scenes. In a longer work, a single scene could be a single chapter, but short stories are too short to have chapters. The ...

I write mostly vignettes, and really, they're one of my favorite things to write. They're just long enough to give you something to think about or say what you want ...