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Fiction Writing Secret Number 10: Create a Femme Fatale

What do Scarlett O’Hara, Erica Kane, and the Wife of Bath have in common? The obvious answer is that they are among the most memorable fictional characters ever created, possibly the most memorable female characters, period. They are femme fatales–that is, no man who becomes involved with them emerges unscathed. In real life we hate […]

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Learn Technical Writing – Technical Writing Exercise – Words in Context

As Daniel Boone, a famous American senator, once said, “You’re not lost as long as you know where you are.” The same can be said of tech writers. We frequently deal with unfamiliar subjects from architecture to zoology, but if we’re generally familiar with the vocabulary of a field, we can usually work our way […]

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How to Fix Sentence Fragments

Learning how to fix sentence fragments is challenging to writers of all levels. Inexperienced writers may write in sentence fragments because they do not understand what constitutes a complete thought or because they model their writing after their fragmented speech. Experienced writers get habituated to “memo-style,” dialogue (text messaging), or point-by point writing and struggle […]

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