Does it matter if anyone else has done it? The point of writing is to take something and make it your own. There is nothing new under the sun, but...
Just write. And let the people who put your published work on the shelf in the store, or at the library decide how to categorise your work.
What has murdered the exclamation point is the needless and idiotic practice of using several at once. Like this!!!!! Yeah. Overkill.
However, it is important not to make your writing look like you've been holding hands with your thesaurus during the writing of that particular...
At the end of the day, how much of your planning actually makes it into the final draft and how much ends up on the cutting room floor? Also, how...
It looks amateurish to do the ?! or !? in your writing. Use one or the other, but not both...
The Pen Name is the name that will appear on the front cover, etc. Your real name won't appear on the book, but it will be the person whose name...
Bibliography at the end of the story.
Interesting... I found myself using that when I used to teach High School English... That and combining "Good!" with several expressive gestures...
If you auto insert the footnote number, then there usually isn't a space anyway. Ah, such things remind me of college essays lol.
Rinse and repeat...
And while you're frittering away with choosing the right name, how much of the story are you writing?
This is an argument that will run around in circles. If I can see italics used to denote thought in published works, then the rule cannot be as...
Okay. I see as many websites that advocate the use of italics for thoughts as I do for those who refer to them being the spawn of the devil. In...
I think you've answered your query in your original post.
Separate names with a comma.
