Some examples: Half-crouching, I went over to the railing and pointed my flashlight down (to the ground). It was approximately a two-storey fall. Not incredibly high, but high enough to kill a person. Cath covered her nose (with her hand). “Damn. That stinks." Is the bold tex...

In many companies I've seen it that more than 1 person are writing at the same documentation (be it user manual or technical documentation) for a computer application. What I have seen in usage was mostly svn in combination with windows word. This combination never worked out quite well and was ...

The recent question "Is it OK to invent as I write, or should I plan the entire story first?" seems very closely related to "How much planning should go on before beginning writing?". Since the answer to the more recent one and the answers to the older one do not overlap, I do not think these are...

One difficulty for the Writers Stack Exchange is that writing questions tend to be more subjective (requiring greater length for a good answer) and often address a specific problem the asker has (leaning toward being "too localized", which is part of the discussion in "Critiques considered harmfu...

Every Tuesday, there's a chat session where someone poses a topic and we have 10 minutes to freewrite on it. We're going to try making this a little more ambitious, and assign "homework" in-between the chat sessions. Answers below will contain what the exercise was and what the assigned homewor...