These questions are the most frequently asked and answered questions on Meta.
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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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Speechwriting: on topic or no?
This question on writing a groom's speech does not quite seem on-topic. We allow questions on writing such things as polite reminder e-mails and other fairly daily tasks, so it can't be the fact that ...
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Should we allow questions on how to self-publish?
If a writer decides to go the route of self-publishing, it is unlikely they would know what steps to take to go about doing it. With that in mind, should we allow questions that ask for advice or ...
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Should we allow grammar/proofreading questions
Our critique guidelines were recently changed to specify that proofreading and requests for mere grammar correction should be off-topic. We've had two recent critique questions requesting grammar ...
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Should this site help with specific writing software questions?
I can see this being a slippery slope. Scrivener questions seem like they ought to be on-topic, at least to some extent. You know, "How do I do this specific writing-related thing in Scrivener?" On ...
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Policy change: Writing critique questions now welcome
We had a long, long discussion about this internally, and we've decided that writing critique questions are officially on-topic.
In retrospect, the idea that a site about writing doesn't allow ...
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What are the guidelines for asking for a critique of my work?
I want to ask for a critique of my work? Can I do that here?
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Money - On topic?
Monetizing a blog, negotiating a contract with a publisher, what's a good advance, how much I should get paid for a short article... are all these things on-topic here? I don't think these intersect ...
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Song lyrics and poetry
Are song lyrics and poetry on topic or off? Poetry seems like a shoo-in, but song lyrics could be a problem if the question veers into music.
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Technical writing questions
Is this a good place for questions on technical writing, specifically, writing on software development matters, or is there a more specialised StackExchange site for that?
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Is it appropriate to ask questions on specialist knowledge areas?
Pieces of writing are often "made" by one or two telling details that show an expert insight into character, place or some other obscure but approriate point about a particular subject.
Is Writers an ...
