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Yay forensics! I'm not sure how you'll fit stuff in four minutes, but generally when you're writing an objective speech, you want to set up a dichotomy, but not sound ...

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Yeah, I'm kind of doubtful. I actually fired off an e-mail to the editor with questions about what she was looking for--she'd originally contacted me about a story, but then ...

Hey, lxtmidnight! Good couples, from a reader's perspective, have these: -- Issues. There has to be flaws in both of them, or it just isn't interesting. -- Issues, take two. ...

No, but it would be advisable to break up the language a little to mimic how people learn. Unless you're a savant, you don't deal with large blocks like that ...

Hey, guys! I'm just starting to really crack down on researching for my NaNo novel, which looks like it's going to be a lot of fun, but a lot of ...

If it doesn't have an ISBN number, it's not published. So I wouldn't sweat about it. ^_^ Otherwise, you'd have to pay for every person you had help edit, and ...

Hey, katsuro! Errgh, I have that problem a lot, too. My favorite way of dealing with it, though, is to grab a stack of blank index cards and a pencil. ...

Agamemnon was killed by Clytemnestra. They were originally married, but while he was fighting in the Trojan war, she was sleeping with Aegisthus. When he came back, she killed him. ...

Let's say I wrote a character named Alabaster Seafolous Rainbow Auracast Annette called "Silver" by her friends because she always wears the hottest platinum clothes her daddy buys her, making ...

You can use BBcode! Take whatever you want to quote, and put it in brackets (NOT PARENTHESES--I'm only using them so that it doesn't actually code things). (quote)text(/quote) It should ...

Hey, Lorraine! A lot of your readers--especially if you're posting on YWS--come from different backgrounds. Personally, I don't know a lot about big cities in general, so a Western or ...

Hey, ash! Here are two articles you might want to check out: Too Darn Hot Sidestepping Mary Sewage Those are just some general things that I reference in critiques all ...

*high fives* Awesome sauce! ^_^ Most people cannot say they've done that, so. My favorite thing to do is to do a read-through on the computer and make notes in ...

This sounds amazing, as usual--how has the sailing research been going? I can't wait to see some of it posted. ^_^