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Spoken Word

All the Spoken Word fans, please stand up. I know and write little else.

Thread by: RoyGBiv, Dec 20, 2019, 0 replies, in forum: The Craft of Writing Poetry

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Misspelled word tracker?

I use Microsoft word 2016 and Grammarly. I couldn't find tracker within those. So I'm asking the experts. Does anyone know of a nifty addon to...

Thread by: SlowToShow, Dec 6, 2019, 1 replies, in forum: Writing Software and Hardware

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Microsoft Word to Google Doc question

Maybe I havent been searching the right terms to generate an answer.... But, if you save a Microsoft Word document to your Google Drives.... if...

Thread by: J.T. Woody, Nov 29, 2019, 4 replies, in forum: Writing Software and Hardware

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The Word "Gingerly"

While reading a certain type of books, I kept coming across the word "gingerly" and realised I did not know the exact meaning of this word. During...

Thread by: arkadia, Nov 24, 2019, 7 replies, in forum: Word Mechanics

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I need a word for "events", as in "stuff to do around town".

I've been working with "events" lately. "Events" which are put on by all different organizations and in all styles. I refer to them as "events",...

Thread by: bparker, Oct 31, 2019, 5 replies, in forum: Word Mechanics

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Punctuation Question about... questions

I'm currently writing a piece of dialogue involving a question followed by a tag. It's been so long since I sat down and worked on any piece that...

Thread by: Alesia, Oct 23, 2019, 26 replies, in forum: Word Mechanics

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Does anyone know this word?

Does anyone know the word for something that is being orbited. Orbitee? I can't think of it. Does it exist?

Thread by: Friedrich Kugelschreiber, Oct 19, 2019, 28 replies, in forum: Word Mechanics

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Novel Word count

I know this answer will vary greatly depending on the style of the writer and the story being told, but I'd just like to know basic word count for...

Thread by: Aceldama, Oct 10, 2019, 3 replies, in forum: Genre Discussions

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What is the word I seek...

I'm looking for a single word that means "tools of the trade." I know the word exists, and I simply cannot think of it. As in, for a specific...

Thread by: Rumwriter, Aug 31, 2019, 11 replies, in forum: Word Mechanics

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Good frequency counter software?

I know someone here has to have tried a few of the frequency counter programs. Programs that count the frequency of words and phrases. Which ones...

Thread by: SlowToShow, Aug 15, 2019, 3 replies, in forum: Writing Software and Hardware

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What do you call the word which starts a rhymes scheme?

Hi there, I am not sure if I am in an appropriate forum for this but here goes: Does anybody know what a word would be called if it "sets up a...

Thread by: Christopher McLaren, Aug 7, 2019, 3 replies, in forum: Word Mechanics

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What do you call the word which starts a rhymes scheme?

Hi there, I am not sure if I am in an appropriate forums for this but here goes: Does anybody know what a word would be called if it "sets up a...

Thread by: Christopher McLaren, Aug 7, 2019, 0 replies, in forum: Word Mechanics

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Is there anything better than Scrivener for Windows 10?

I've been waiting for version 3 of Scrivener to come out on Windows 10 to see whether it is worth using, but I'd like to do some writing casually...

Thread by: Cromulent, Jun 25, 2019, 2 replies, in forum: Writing Software and Hardware

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I use Ashampoo word 18, what do you use and why?

As I write mostly for my own pleasure (no dreams of toppling JKR as yet) I used whatever the OME was that came with the various laptops I bought...

Thread by: Ben Hill, May 9, 2019, 13 replies, in forum: Writing Software and Hardware

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Need beta reader for a 5k word short story

The genre is literary fiction 5k words Let me know if you're interested in helping a brotha out!

Thread by: Alex R. Encomienda, Apr 30, 2019, 2 replies, in forum: Collaboration

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Microsoft Word for the Mac

I thought this was going to be simple, but it's not. I was thinking about buying Word for the Mac, as it is the format required for KDP. I have...

Thread by: jannert, Apr 24, 2019, 40 replies, in forum: Writing Software and Hardware

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Goofy - word

Hey all, haven't done one of these in a while so I thought I'd have a little fun. So, the point of this thread is to share words that are...

Thread by: John-Wayne, Apr 6, 2019, 9 replies, in forum: The Lounge

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A word you didn't know you wanted

I am reading an article on the re-discovery of a giant bee wherein the author used a word I hadn't heard before. Thanks to the Internet, I could...

Thread by: J.D. Ray, Feb 21, 2019, 1 replies, in forum: Word Mechanics

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What new word did you learn today?

So the other day, the same day that @paperbackwriter introduced the word "milksop" into my vocabulary, a copy of Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary...

Thread by: jim onion, Jan 24, 2019, 2,610 replies, in forum: The Lounge

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one word you would remove from a dictionary

I start Boredom. You?

Thread by: katina, Jan 6, 2019, 16 replies, in forum: The Lounge

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