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Ah now, none of that please! The effort to reply and share your experience is always appreciated and whether it resonates with me or...

I'll answer this tomorrow. Seriously though - plan and plot. Know what you want to tell, and how you're going to tell it. Then, as long...

It's such a strong reflex for me to press Ctrl-S each time I complete a decent bunch of paragraphs or finish rewriting one that I could...

This just reminds me, did anyone try to watch Babylon Berlin with English dubbing? The casting of the voice actors was ruinous, wasn't...

What I wondered was whether you were musing on differences in early adults between then and now. (I see now that it was differences in...

I tend to think that writing formulas lead to formulaic writing. You can put all those things in the first line, but you don’t have to...

Ah, but people sometimes ask rhetorical questions where they don't expect an answer, don't they?

Here's the difference as I see it: "You would know that, wouldn't you" indicates that no reply is expected. "You would know that...

...Excuse me. I have to go edit three other books.

Yes, I do make such a change on occasion, too, not because of the guideline, but because in that instance the change results in better...

This is the kind of wit I love from him.

Yes, he does. On page 23, he writes And on page 64:

Key to these examples is that "is one" and "wouldn't you" are idiomatic fragments attached to the end of an actual declarative statement...

The thing is, it isn't actually a question — it merely resembles one. There are two different meanings, two different intonations, and...

Well put, Also. My "rule" is to write what you like, and test the material afterward by re-casting it by some rule or another. Sometimes...