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What time is most convenient for you for the weekly chat?
Standback and I have been discussing what time the weekly chat should be, so more people can attend.
Should we have it at the same time every week? If so, what time/day would you prefer? (Times in ...
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Added a summary section to the FAQ, call for comment and revisions
I just closed another "what should I write about" question, and left a note to the poster that questions asking what to write about are off-topic here. I directed the user to our FAQ, but our FAQ is ...
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Are requests for rephrasing on topic?
A type of question that pops up frequently - and gets closed frequently - is requests to rephrase a few sentences. Some recent examples:
A better way of saying this?
Help me rewrite this sentence
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Policy Change: [critique] tag abolished; long live critiques
In accordance with discussion at Is [critique] a meta-tag? , the critique tag is being phased out. Critique questions - i.e. questions asking about your own writing - are still welcome; however, we ...
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Weekly chat session topic ideas
Our weekly chat sessions seem to be getting slightly more people in the last few weeks. Since people ask for topics from time to time, here's a place where people can brainstorm on ideas. Something ...
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Clarification regarding critical feedback to stories
I keep hearing that this site has some mechanism by which an author can ask for beta feedback, but I don't see any official mention of it. Is there a clear and easy to follow set of guidelines ...
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Anything you want to salvage from Lit.SE?
Literature.SE, along with some other betas, is being closed in a week.
Other sites are salvaging these sites via migration
Now, I'm not a regular member of either Lit.SE or Writers.SE, but it did ...
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Proposed descriptive text for use in site publicity
Any publicity efforts for this site need to explain two things: What Stack Exchange Q&A is, and why Writers is a good site. We faced this issue a while back on Bicycles. I've taken some of the ...
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Publicity - we need your help!
The Stack Exchange folks tell us that we're doing well with quality - yay us! - and that we need to start thinking about getting more people here asking questions.
Make no mistake, sites that don't ...
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“delete” feature isn't working for comments
That's it... I can't delete any comments I post; even though the button is there.
Update: It doesn't work anywhere on Writers' and I can't try it anywhere else, unfortunately.
The "delete" link is ...
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How are critique questions working out for us?
As a counterpoint/companion to the other recent questions about dealing with critiques, this one is intended to assess our current view of critique questions, now that we've got some experience with ...
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Is the closing of the agent model question dysfunctional?
I know, I know, the title is inappropriate, but I could not resist.
This question:
Is the literary agent model dysfunctional?
was closed and I think it should be reopened. It addresses one main ...
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Isn't this question exactly what EL&U is for?
This question is fascinating, but I think it's clearly EL&U and not Writers. Am I correct that this is off-topic here?
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Specialized template for Critique Requests
We frequently have difficulty with questions phrased as critique requests, but failing to adhere to our critique guidelines. While we've been trying to clarify our guidelines both for ourselves and ...
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Is [critique] a meta-tag?
Jeff Atwood has discussed meta tags, which he (via Aaronut at Cooking.SE) defines as follows:
Meta-tags [are tags which] do not describe the content of the question. They describe some other ...
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What will become of this site?
I don't know if this is an appropriate question for Meta, but I couldn't think where else to ask.
It seems to me that Writers beta does not get very many questions. I hate being negative, but ...
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Is this question about style on-topic?
Please have a look at this:
How to use “I think, therefore I am” in a more fluent manner?
Writers has clearly declared grammar questions off-topic here, preferring to migrate them to English ...
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Clarification of critique guidelines
English Language and Usage keeps sending us brief, unanswerable questions that are asking for vague improvements. ("This sounds weird to me.") I'm sure they genuinely think that they're placing the ...
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How is the question of describing suicide “in a literary way” off-topic?
This question was migrated from english.stackexchange.com and apparently immediately closed and deleted as off-topic: "commit suicide" In A Literary Way
How in the world is that off-topic?
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Minor changes: Not bumping up an edited question
Like Wikipedia, is there a way here at stack exchange to sign an edit as 'minor' (like in grammar, spelling corrections) and avoid bumping the question to the top of the list?
Suggestion:
Having ...
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Why do I get the subjective message with this title?
The title of my question was "How do you estimate the length of your screenplay in screen time?" What makes this stupid forum keep telling me "The question you're asking appears subjective and is ...
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Is the “not an answer” flag discouraged?
I flagged a post (which had already attracted downvotes and a "this isn't an answer" comment) as "not an answer", and it was declined because "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of ...
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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Evaluate Your Site — A Check for Quality [closed]
One of the most important aspects of being a Stack Exchange site is quality. Yes, there are lots of metrics that one can use to "measure" a site, but we don't really care about those as much as we ...
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Examples of clear and answerable questions on Writers
In an attempt to identify what a good question is here, I'm just gonna start posting a bunch of questions I particularly like, and I'll say why. I'm focusing on questions that are:
Answerable, ...
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What poor/annoying practices can we identify for creative writing posts?
As in the sister-question What good practices can we identify for creative writing posts?, I'm interested in collecting observations and insights people have had about the site so far. But here I want ...
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What good practices can we identify for creative writing posts?
One of our biggest challenges is figuring out how to match the strict SE Q&A format to the subjective, creative, and rather abstract field of creative writing.
We've seen a lot of great ...
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The Red Ink Initiative
Over the past year and a half, Writers.SE has built up many, many questions and answers - and a small, dedicated community. The other mods and I have been discussing what we can do to take us up to ...
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How has this site helped you and your writing?
As many of you may know, we have a mostly-new new mod team on the site, including myself. Justkt has been great about getting Standback and myself up to speed on the site, but it's going to take some ...
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Can mods edit the “How to Ask” page?
The "How to Ask" page seems like a really good place to put guidelines for new users, and a general explanation of what to try for with your first questions.
But the text seems to be fixed. Is there ...
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How do I start asking questions on how to write sci-fi?
I have an idea that I think could make a good foundation for a sci-fi or futuristic fantasy story, probably suited to a small novel. I would like to ask, where and how do I start going about ...
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Is this attempt at a case-study question something we'd like to see more of?
After I raised the idea of case-study questions, I tried my hand at writing one.
I'm still a bit uneasy about this, since it seems to edge into literary criticism. But I'm eager to try, because I ...
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WTCS: Short story writing
This has been chosen for the week of 15 February 2012 to 21 Feburary 2012
Short story writing is an art form in itself. Short stories can range from six words, all the way to several thousand ...
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What defines a “necessary” one-letter edit?
I was reading this answer to a recent question about how to get honest, unbiased feedback on writing from friends when I noticed the author had accidentally used the wrong character to close a ...
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Answer keeps getting turned into a comment; help?
I tried to add a community-wiki answer to this week's challenge topic to start a list of questions asked during the challenge week, but it turned my answer into a comment on the question instead. ...
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WTCS: Collaboration
This has been chosen for the week of 8 February 2012 to 14 Feburary, 2012
Weekly topic challenge suggestion: Collaboration. Questions about:
Working with co-authors -- division of labor, ...
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WTCS: “House” as a study case
Topic: Questions using the TV show House as a case study.
The idea is to analyze the writing of the popular TV show to gain wider insights applicaple to our own writing. Appropriate questions might ...
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WTCS: How do you balance the amount of conflict in a story?
Per the Weekly Topic Challenge Suggestion guidelines...
Topic: "How do you balance the amount of conflict in a story?"
How do you figure out at what point you're just keeping the lovers
apart ...
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Weekly Topic Challenge: Call for Proposals
This is the call for proposals for the weekly topic challenge. Topic proposals should be along the lines of the ideas proposed here, although you can branch out from those criteria if you make a ...
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Can I revoke a Vote To Close if the questioner fixed the problem?
This question was originally a poll. I said I would VTC if it weren't fixed, gave it a day, voted to close, and then the poster fixed it. Is there a way to remove my vote to close now that it's been ...
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Would there be interest in a promotional “question drive” of sorts?
Around SE the team has been known to sponsor a variety of contests to encourage quality content on the different Q&A sites. For example Seasoned Advice has a topic of the week contest where one ...
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Writers.SE from A to Z… How to spend time on Writers.SE?
I have been on Writers.SE for a few days now and I'm completely sold. I love the content, I love the community and I love the potential of the site. So my question:
If I wanted to start from the ...
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Asking the question in a right way?
I'm wondering if Q&A is the right approach for creative writers to exchange ideas.
I'm seeing questions on Writers.SE that are either incomplete or stated in a such a way that it is open to ...
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Can I ask this kind of questions here?
I just read through FAQ section and I am still not sure if I can ask this kind of questions here or not. What if I am writing a short story and I want to post here one paragraph from it for people to ...
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Should we be answering questions about what to write about?
This question asks for guidelines on what to write about. In the realm of fiction we have already declared questions asking generically for plot ideas off-topic. In the linked meta question ...
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Are we short a moderator?
Not to name names, or anything, but the good HedgeMage used to be a mod, and I've suddenly noticed that she isn't.
I'm quite fond both of HedgeMage and of having a full complement of moderators.
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Why “Wrters Newsletter” in Writers newsletter?
Wrters but not Writers, does have some special meanings or just a typo?
the original image link
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Are we being too compartmentalized about the sub-sites of StackExchange?
It has occured to me (with the existence of Linguistics.SE, Writing.SE, Conlang.SE (coming soon?)) that we may be making niche sites now. These almost seem as if they fit such a specific topic that ...
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Question about essay mill - Is academic ghostwriting on-topic?
Please have a look at this question:
How do I imitate the simplicity of a typical student's writing?
The question is fairly straightforward, it's mostly there in the title. However, the question ...
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Why doesn't Writers.se have a facebook group?
The inherent problem with our Nanowrimo efforts is that everything must be a question. The chat is spotty to say the least. Weirdly of all the stacks this is the one that seems to have the best ...
