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  • Liberty, I do roughly the same thing as Olivia. I try to flavor the dialogue with a sprinkling of dialectical sayings or pronunciations, etc. I'll even make up my own sayings....
  • Greetings Guess we must be in the minority here. I have my novel out to an editor who is roughly the same age as the protags in my book but he doesn't get the non-violence - says I ne...
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    Last reply by Rita Patricia Hogan
    ...unbiased feedback. I'd be more than happy to trade with three writers for an equal 30K words (or your first three chapters, whatever equals that roughly - I won't be a stickler). My...
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  • Susan P. Koniak posted a status
    ...page, cannot stand and can't keep straight the words for words, like adjective and participle, and cannot parse a sentence into parts. Speaking roughly Williams Syndrome, which I do...
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    rivka schiller posted a status
    ...on was later brought out of Lithuania in 1940, scarcely before the outbreak of The Second World War. Al’s mother, however, was murdered with the roughly 95% of Lithuanian Jewry, in t...

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  • ...n piquing my interest in your book! It did sound like you put a lot of effort into your trailer, and I wonder if you would mind sharing how much (roughly) you spent on it? Although it...
  • Lauren B. Davis commented on her article Books, books, and . . .
    ...rage number of words per line in a 6" x 9" trade paperback is approximately 10 and each page has approximately 39 lines = 390 words/page.Which is roughly 2 minutes per page.  So, in a...
  • ...ms etc, as well as translating 24 of her father's poems. One of the best tools I used to extend the story was to interview Parvaneh, after we had roughly translated a section of her m...