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2:23 AM

Is this answer of mine a bit too flowery and subjective? (I also dislike the jarring transitions around the fourth paragraph (about genre expectations).) The flowery prose may have won it an upvote in the first 20 minutes (and it is by no means content free), but overall it seems a less reasoned answer than the question deserves.

It was fun to write and certainly has some rhetorical force, but its tone is very different from what I typically use in answers. (I am also a bit disappointed that it does not give more concrete advice on the topic—beyond "don't do it". "to thy own self be true" is not very concrete.) "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,/Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be."

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3:00 AM

Q: How can I balance between a formal and informal tone?

I want my writings to be "to-the-point" and no-nonsense, but at the same time, I want them to be entertaining so that they grip attention. By entertaining I don't only mean funny, slang-ish, or humourous. So how do I strike a balance between a formal tone and an informal tone? I end up writing e...

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Aaron

1:00 PM

@BESW @waxeagle Somehow I am not surprised to find you two here.

BESW

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wax eagle

@Aaron hi! I'm not too active in here, but it's on my star list, and I (rarely) participate in the tuesday afternoon writer's chat

Aaron

I am hoping to get some advice on where to get proofreading and such. I have what I think is a good story-line but it has been a long time since I have had time to really write.

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5:05 PM

Q: Defining a Prologue

I had came across prologues of several novels and what I noticed in them was that they all were different from each others. Some were having a short excerpt picked somewhere from the novel, few includes some private notes from the author, while few were having an introductory part by the narrator...