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Bookworm

00:13

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Q: Do academic papers have to be necessarily grammatically correct?

I don't know if academic papers such as research papers and essays constitute literature so I'm sorry if I am asking in the wrong section. There was not another StackExchange section dealing with grammar or writing. I hope you can let this pass. The following is my question. I notice that a...

essays

Gallifreyan

@Randal'Thor Many thanks, but I've had good teachers

And the site was behaving very well lately

North Læraðr

03:40

I have seven pending tag wiki edits, whenever someone wants to look at that.

Done for today, I'm going to sleep.

Feedback would be helpful if I'm doing anything really wrong.

Also any ideas on how to define [roman-literature] as a tag? I first thought it should be a synonym for [latin-literature] but looked at the question and realized it wasn't :/

Rand al'Thor

06:42

That's strange. It says "orphan wiki", and the tag doesn't actually exist. Did the system kill the tag while an edit was pending on it?

@NorthLæraðr Looking at that question, maybe it should be just tagged latin-literature? We use the [xxx-literature] tags for languages specifically, not countries/cultures. Although the answer mentions Aristotle's Rhetoric which of course was Greek not Latin, the question only mentions Roman writings.

Rand al'Thor

07:30

Another big-tag wiki that might need improvement is character-analysis.

Bookworm

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Q: Dante's Inferno reference in Much Ado About Nothing

My professor asked me this for an assignment. It was to identify a Dante's Inferno reference in Much Ado About Nothing. I don't know what he meant by this. Where is this reference? Does not have to be a long statement, just a statement or a phrase.

william-shakespeare dante-alighieri much-ado-about-nothing

Bob Tway

@Randal'Thor and @Tsundoku congratulations on your election

Rand al'Thor

07:44

@BobTway Thanks! :-) Btw, your name is different in chat - I only recognised you from the avatar.

Bob Tway

08:05

@Randal'Thor Weird. I decided to feebly "anonymise" my other SE accounts a while ago but I changed it back on lit. No idea why it's not changed for chat

Rand al'Thor

Because your chat parent site is Stack Overflow. Probably by default if it's your oldest account, but you can change the chat parent to anything you want.

Matt Thrower

@Randal'Thor Yeah, done

Rand al'Thor

Welcome back Matt ;-)

Matt Thrower

:D

Gareth Rees

Good answer to the Marlowe question

@Bookworm As written, this seems like quite a cruel assignment from the professor (since there are no references to Dante's Inferno in Much Ado)—but maybe the OP hasn't explained the assignment very well

Matt Thrower

08:13

Glad you enjoyed the Marlowe answer, it was fun to research

I think I have one for Much Ado as well, although it's sketchier :)

Gareth Rees

@MattThrower The history of the accusations of atheism against Marlowe is bizarre. There was a spate of seditious graffiti in London in 1593 signed "Tambulaine", and for some reason the Privy Council ordered a raid on the playwright Thomas Kyd, and a mildly heterodox manuscript was found in his house, and Kyd was arrested and tortured and said that the manuscript belonged to Marlowe

Matt Thrower

@GarethRees As I hinted at in the answer, I think a lot of this hinges on the religious and political paranoia of the age. People were terrified of civil war and the threat of foreign invasion, all based on religious dissent. So "atheist" took on a very sinister meaning

Gareth Rees

09:06

There's a good discussion of early modern ideas about "atheism" in this essay by Ada Palmer -- she suggests that there is a sense in which Christian theologians created atheism by constructing stronger and stronger straw men to show off their powers of refutation, until they succeeded in creating straw men so strong that they couldn't refute them

Bookworm

09:26

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Q: In what ways does The Moviegoer echo Kierkagaardian existentialist principles?

How does the plot of The Moviegoer show the influence of existentialist authors, specifically Kierkegaard, on Percy's writing. I've also noticed some similarities between the "leap of faith" between Kierkegaard and Walker, but it's too abstract for me to put into words.

meaning character-analysis soren-kierkegaard

Tsundoku

10:12

@MattThrower Reminds me of how the word "terrorist" is used a bit too easily nowadays.

Matt Thrower

11:04

@GarethRees That's very interesting, thanks for sharing. There's a surprising amount of questions about meaning that can be answered by invoking historical context: so many words had quite distinct meanings in ages past compared to modern usage.

@Tsundoku The mutability of language is both a blessing and a curse

Tsundoku

@GarethRees "until they succeeded in creating straw men so strong that they couldn't refute them". Isn't that just delicious? :-D

Rand al'Thor

@MattThrower By the way, I wasn't sure about your adding the historical-context tag to the Marlowe question. The answer is about historical context, as you've shown, but is it obvious from the question that it will involve historical context? Tags should describe the question independent of the answer(s). I didn't want to re-edit without checking with you, so I was going to just leave it, but now that you're pingable in chat ...

Tsundoku

11:30

Four days after the last vote was cast we are at 4.1 QPD. This is still marginally higher than the 3.1 - 3.6 QPD we had at the time when the majority of the votes were cast.

Rand al'Thor

It seems to be a combination of active users asking more questions than usual (like me and you) and more new users asking good questions.

I wonder if chat becoming more active has helped main-site activity. Some of the questions, like from North and Alex, seemed to derive from discussion in here.

Tsundoku

There seems to be a correlation, but I don't know in which direction (except for questions inspired by chat). If the increased chat activity led to more questions, what led to increased chat activity? The election? Lockdowns in response to Covid-19?

Rand al'Thor

Gareth blamed coronavirus.

But it just takes a few present and chatty people to keep a chatroom active enough to encourage newcomers to join the conversation. That snowball effect is much stronger in chat than Q&A, I think.

Napoleon Wilson

@Tsundoku Most likely the election.

Tsundoku

I found the sudden increase in chat activity at the start of the election very striking. But I also had the impression that the subset between voters and new (or newish) question askers was very small.

Bookworm

11:44

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Q: How might Shakespeare have become familiar with Dante's work?

A recent question on our site asked whether Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing contained a reference to Dante's Divine Comedy. In his answer, Matt Thrower mentions Beatrice, the name of both a character in Much Ado and the woman who inspired some of Dante's writings. However, the Divine Comedy...

william-shakespeare inspiration dante-alighieri

Napoleon Wilson

There were also about 5 million N.K. Narayan questions, but they came from the core user group.

Rand al'Thor

@NapoleonWilson The questions came from active users, but many of the answers came from newer users, which is great.

Matt Thrower

@Randal'Thor No, that's fine - I actually had a similar thought when I was adding it. I realised after answering that I'm not sure it's actually what the OP was asking, but as the comments underneath showed it's a pretty vague question. Historical-context is just my interpretation of it

@Tsundoku I just came here to say congratulations and people seem to be talking to me :D

As for the answers I posted recently, as always it's just particular questions that pique my interest and that I feel I can answer. Often a fair few weeks pass without me seeing any, but two came along on consecutive days. Which was nice.

Rand al'Thor

12:00

@MattThrower There's that snowball effect :-)

Tsundoku

:-) People won't be saying congratulations forever, though. Life goes back to normal after a while.

Rand al'Thor

But if enough of us stay here to keep the room active ...

Matt Thrower

@Tsundoku I'm going to have to have a pop at your follow up question now, aren't I? I really ought to do some work instead.

Rand al'Thor

I've seen that before in other chatrooms. Even one person who's there all the time, and a few popping in and out, can be enough to increase activity, draw newcomers into the conversation, encourage on-and-off visitors to be more on than off, ...

Gareth Rees

@Bookworm There's a survey of the evidence for Shakespeare being able to read Italian in Naseeb Shaheen (1994), ‘Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Italian', Shakespeare Survey 47 which you can borrow from the Internet Archive here

I read it when I was trying to figure out if Shakespeare could have read Castelvetro's Italian translation of Aristotle's Poetics for this answer but it probably has some relevance for the Dante question too

Matt Thrower

12:12

@GarethRees It's also cited in some interesting speculation on the subject. Do you want to have a go at an answer?

Gareth Rees

@MattThrower No, I'm busy at work, so I suggest you go for it

Matt Thrower

@GarethRees I ought to be busy at work ....

Skooba

I ought to work at work

Rand al'Thor

I ought to work at being busy.

Skooba

That is the worst part of work, having to fake that you actually have work to do.

That is why I love SE and chat. I am typing something, so it sounds like I am working.

Tsundoku

12:48

@Randal'Thor I'm going to try this in the Language Lab (Language Learning SE), which has been very quiet for very long.

@GarethRees Thanks. I'll take a look at that.

We have a tag for the poem the-king-of-harlem, which is really too short to qualify for a tag; see the Spanish text El rey de Harlem.

Matt Thrower

Right, answered. I'm now going to do some actual work.

Mithical

"actual work"? Pffft.

Tsundoku

Chat fight! Chat fight! Chat fight!

Rand al'Thor

13:03

If both Matt and Gareth can sacrifice a little productivity to post good answers there, maybe the question will go HNQ.

Tsundoku

I'm a bit skeptical about Roe's The Shakespeare Guide to Italy but the other references look fine. One important contemporary is missing in Matt's answer, but if Gareth looks into the question, I'm sure he will figure out whom I have in mind.

We don't tag questions with titles of poems unless they are book-length works (e.g. Iliad, The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost). I think we have never tagged questions about poems with the title of the collection in which they were published. ("El rey de Harlem" was published in Poeta en Nueva York, which was an important collection.)

Tsundoku

13:32

@MattThrower Curiously, I can't find Naseeb Shaheen's Shakespeare's Knowledge of Italian on WorldCat, the catalogue of the Library of Congress or on Amazon (.com or .de). Do you know when and where that was published?

Rand al'Thor

@Tsundoku It's mentioned on Wikipedia, and appears to be a journal article in the CUP's Shakespeare Survey.

Tsundoku

Right, I found that just a minute ago.

Rand al'Thor

Google Scholar lists it only as a citation; I can't find any page where the full text is linked, not even behind a paywall.

Gareth Rees

See my comment above for a link

Rand al'Thor

Oh, duh, I hadn't realised that was the same thing.

Tsundoku

13:43

By the way, we have tags for metatext (2 questions, no tag wiki excerpt) and metafiction (1 question, with tag wiki excerpt). Should one be synonymised with the other?

Bookworm

14:02

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Q: Why are some recently published book available on paper format but not on ebook?

I recently came across this promising book and while I did find several online shops who sell it as "paperback", I was unable to find an ebook version of it. Even though the website clearly sells ebooks as well as paper books. Example of library selling the paper version but not the ebook: Bar...

editions publishing physical-books ebooks

Matt Thrower

@Tsundoku I used that link from @GarethRees

Tsundoku

I had obviously overlooked that.

Tsundoku

15:18

I have replaced metatext with metafiction on two of Aza's questions, only to discover that we also have metaliterature, whose description unhelpfully blurs the line between metafiction and literary criticism. Pfff.

North Læraðr

@Tsundoku I mean, I'm not going to lie, the election is the main thing that brought me back to Lit. SE, though I'm most likely going to be staying for a while

Eyyyy I passed 500 rep and now can vtc

Tsundoku

@NorthLæraðr Oh, please do!

@NorthLæraðr Congratulations! Use that wand wisely.

North Læraðr

I shall indeed

Ooh, I have two good questions regarding fairytales, with one planning to be a self-answer

I'll probably self-answer the other one too if no one answers it (but that means I have to research, blech)

Tsundoku

@NorthLæraðr Have you noticed? There's another tree in town.

North Læraðr

15:54

@Tsundoku Harumph...

Avazula... @Mithical Didn't they also design your profile picture once?

Mithical

yes, that's the avatar that's currently at linktr.ee/superplane39 + my GitHub account

North Læraðr

Ah hah! I don't know how I remembered that....

Tsundoku

@Mithical Oh, you're also on Chess.com? I haven't been there for ages.

North Læraðr

Ah, Chess.com

North Læraðr

16:19

Ahhhh

There are no more empty tags as of now, I believe

Ah nope never mind I found some more

Tsundoku

Check the two lists I posted a few days ago.

North Læraðr

Noooooo there's so many more left

Rand al'Thor

@NorthLæraðr FYI.

The TL;DR is we use individual-work tags for long works (like novels or plays) but just poetry or short-stories if the individual work is too short to merit its own tag.

North Læraðr

Oh okay, thank you

Rand al'Thor

Also, congrats on 500 rep!

Did you check the Close/Reopen review queues? :-)

North Læraðr

16:24

Ah, I didn't see there was a review task

b_jonas

@Tsundoku There is at least one exception for a particularly infamous poem: literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-raven Poe's "The Raven"

North Læraðr

@b_jonas True, but that one's a) fairly long for a poem and b) like poe's most famous poem

Tsundoku

@b_jonas "The horror, the horror". Sigh.

b_jonas

@NorthLæraðr Yes, it's one of the most famous short poems in general, not only of Poe.

Apr 25 at 17:43, by Rand al'Thor

It seems every country claims one of their great pieces of literature as the best-selling / most translated / most reprinted after the Bible.

^ The Raven might be the most translated short poem after the Bible.

There are, I think, eight professional Hungarian translations of it.

Tsundoku

@NorthLæraðr I wouldn't describe "The Raven" as a "long" poem, especially from the point of view of that meta post on tagging poetry and short stories.

I would argue that Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is more famous than "The Raven" but we wouldn't create a tag for it.

Rand al'Thor

16:32

@NorthLæraðr Not "fairly long" when compared with something like Don Juan or Aurora Leigh or the Iliad.

North Læraðr

@Tsundoku Does shakespeare poems like "The Rape of Lucrece" or "Venus and Adonis" still not considered a tag of its own?

Tsundoku

Not even long when compared to "The Waste Land".

North Læraðr

@Randal'Thor good point

Rand al'Thor

I always knew the-raven was inconsistent with our tagging policy, but never brought it up because, well, I'm a fan ;-) Now I guess I should be more responsible.

Tsundoku

@NorthLæraðr Those are book-length poems. In addition, they were published as individual books in Shakespeare's lifetime.

Rand al'Thor

16:34

@Tsundoku Btw, tag merging with mod tools can be a good way of retagging without manually editing.

North Læraðr

@Tsundoku Ah okay

Rand al'Thor

Say if we merge the-raven into poetry, then all Raven questions would automatically get the poetry tag instead, but nothing else would change and nothing would be bumped.

@b_jonas The Bible is a short poem now? :-)

Tsundoku

@Randal'Thor I know but I didn't do that on the odd chance that someone might come up with a reason for distinguishing between metatext and metafiction. I thought I had read somewhere that you can't unscramble two tags (or eggs).

(I can't type anymore.)

b_jonas

@Randal'Thor Sorry, I mean after any short poem parts of the bible.

Rand al'Thor

Odd chance or off chance? I guess both make sense in a way.

b_jonas

16:36

But Tsundoku may be right that some of Shakespeare may be more translated.

Tsundoku

@Randal'Thor I need to unscramble my brain as well.

North Læraðr

@b_jonas I mean, like the Psalms?

b_jonas

@Randal'Thor If you want to merge it, I'd suggest merging it into [edgar-allan-poe] instead, since that's more specific.

@NorthLæraðr Probably. I do not wish to make an opinion on what is a poem and what isn't in the Bible.

North Læraðr

@b_jonas eh, the Psalms are pretty much all hymns to God, but I'm not sure what one considers a poem

I think they were considered poems when written, though

b_jonas

@Randal'Thor Hmm, should we tag literature.stackexchange.com/q/1390/139 this Raven question with [poetry]?

Rand al'Thor

16:42

@b_jonas I was going to say that, but all those questions already have the EAP tag while one of them doesn't have poetry.

@b_jonas Yes, if we're going to follow the general policy and abolish the-raven.

Tsundoku

So the raven, which symbolizes death, will meet its symbolic death. RIP.

North Læraðr

@Tsundoku actually it symbolizes life and gried according to this post

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Q: What does the raven symbolize (besides death)?

Whenever I ask a friend about the symbolism of the Raven from The Raven, they always seem to say death. Is that the only thing the Raven is meant to symbolize?

symbolism edgar-allan-poe the-raven

Tsundoku

OK, I'll dig up some more empty tag wiki excerpts.

Rand al'Thor

The first Dante/Shakespeare question is now HNQ. Waiting for the second one to follow after the 8-hour threshold.

It's a good day for @MattThrower.

North Læraðr

16:57

For anyone that cares, the Pachinko tag doesn't need a Korean-literature tag, since it was first published in english

Tsundoku

@NorthLæraðr It doesn't have the Korean-literature tag, so no need to change anything :-)

North Læraðr

Well the Pachinko tag doesn't have any excerpts (I added one), but just in case someone was curious

Tsundoku

Some more empty tag wiki excerpts: ~~illustrators~~, ~~the-sixth-world~~, ~~khamoshi-shayari~~, ~~interactive-fiction~~, ~~rakugo~~ (ambiguous), ~~oriah-mountain-dreamer~~, ~~the-crying-of-lot-49~~.

And even more empty tag wiki excerpts: ~~the-confessions-of-frannie-langton~~, ~~sara-collins~~, ~~stephen-spender~~, ~~strangers-and-brothers~~, ~~the-kite-runner, khaled-hosseini~~, ~~olaus-magnus~~, ~~johannes-v-jensen~~, ~~the-ingoldsby-legends~~.

North Læraðr

oh gash

Mithical

And, uh, make sure to do research before putting info in.

North Læraðr

17:05

Oh, my bad. Sorry

That was a typo, I should've double-checked

Rand al'Thor

Also, works "about or related to"? Surely it's for works by them?

North Læraðr

oh...

?

Oh i see. My bad.

Matt Thrower

@Randal'Thor ooh, that's exciting. I wonder why they keep making HNQ? I presumed the algorithm was just based on popularity.

Mithical

Just recreated a few tags that has gotten swallowed by the system, as well, if you're interested @North.

North Læraðr

@Mithical What do you mean swallowed by the system?

Oh, got deleted. I see

Rand al'Thor

17:17

@MattThrower The algorithm is based on the number/score of answers and score of the question as well as age. So when you manage to post a good answer fast (meaning within 8 hours of the question), it's likely to go HNQ.

At least assuming the votes reflect that "good".

North Læraðr

Nvm I did some research and it makes more sense

Mithical

Basically... not fitting well into either of the categories of "male" or "female". "queer" is an umbrella term for anyone not heterosexual or cisgender, "trans" is an umbrella term for anyone who does not align with the gender they were assigned at birth, and "nonbinary" is a term for someone not fitting clearly into either "male" or "female" categories.

North Læraðr

Ahhh

I was confused on how someone was nonbinary and trans, but that definition makes sense

Mithical

Although now you deleted the question, so my answer looks odd out of context. ;)

North Læraðr

oh oof

Rand al'Thor

17:22

Unlike on the main site, you can delete an answered question ;-)

North Læraðr

So much to wrap my head around

Gareth Rees

I think a good rule of thumb is, if a work has been published on its own in a book then it can get a tag, but if only in collections with other works, then not.

Under this theory "The Raven" deserves a tag, because it has been published on its own (with illustrations by Gustave Doré, no less)

North Læraðr

@Mithical Is agender different from nonbinary?

Gareth Rees

(This is in no way a principled distinction but it's easy to apply)

Mithical

....yes, although not necessarily.

"agender" is specifically no gender, or totally outside of the spectrum. It can be defined as a subset of nonbinary. Nonbinary (enby for short) can be no gender, or a third gender, or demi, etc.

Rand al'Thor

17:27

@GarethRees I think what came out of the meta discussion was to use the quotes/italics dichotomy. Short works with "Titles in Quotes" don't get their own tags; long works with Titles in Italics do.

Probably in many cases that's equivalent to your suggestion. Short stories in anthologies; novels published alone.

North Læraðr

@Mithical After growing up for so long with being taught that there are only two genders, and having very little information about LGBTQ, this is all very hard to wrap my head around

Bookworm

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Q: Is artists leaving their art forever a significant theme in R. K. Narayan's writing?

While reading the 1982 collection Malgudi Days of R. K. Narayan short stories, I noticed a common theme appearing in several of them, namely that of an artist who leaves their creative work behind forever. All of these are stories reproduced from the earlier collection An Astrologer’s Day and Oth...

short-stories r-k-narayan theme

North Læraðr

Sorry if I seem slow

Tsundoku

Another list of empyt tag wiki excerpts: harold-p-furth, ~~richard-siken~~, ~~nino-cipri~~, ~~graphic-novel~~, charlotte-riddell, (the-norby-chronicles only used in a deleted question), ~~the-conference-of-the-birds~~ (see farid-ud-din-attar).

Mithical

@NorthLæraðr Eh, you don't necessarily have to understand it, especially at first. It can be kinda confusing.

Rand al'Thor

17:29

The advantage of your suggestion is it can also extend to series tagging, since we use e.g. harry-potter and the-space-trilogy and redwall-series instead of individual tags for each book within those series.

Tsundoku

I don't think there are any empty tag wiki excerpts that I haven't listed in the last few days. The best place to catch them is usually the "New" tab.

Rand al'Thor

(Sorry, that's a continuation of my previous message and not related to the messages in between. Seems I'm the slow one.)

North Læraðr

@Mithical Yeah. I was really confused when my best friend first told me she was panromantic but asexual. And then she had to explain the whole concept.

Mithical

@Tsundoku I would recommend that people check through older questions to look for vanished tags, as well, when they've got time.

@NorthLæraðr :)

North Læraðr

@Tsundoku Actually I just manually look for them under "popular", and then have to work backward from the last page

@Tsundoku Most of the tags are already filled now in the "new tab", at least for me

Tsundoku

17:34

@NorthLæraðr Well, I meant "usually", i.e. when I am not hunting them down like a bulldog ;-)

North Læraðr

@Tsundoku Lol

@Tsundoku You mean when all the tags get piled up without having been editted

Tsundoku

@NorthLæraðr Exactly. When people ask questions that require new tags, the "New" tab becomes the place where those empty tags pile up.

b_jonas

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Q: Did Lenore merely leave or is she dead?

Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven has the narrator mourning the loss of his love Lenore. But it's actually not entirely clear to me if Lenore merely left the narrator (for whatever relationship-related intricacies) or if she is dead altogether. When the eponymous raven appears, the narrator repea...

poetry edgar-allan-poe the-raven

North Læraðr

@Tsundoku True

b_jonas

^ This one is funny by the way, because most of the Hungarian translations make it pretty clear in the second verse that Lenore is dead.

Tsundoku

17:41

Is there a way to do a strikethrough in chat?

North Læraðr

uh

Mithical

---message---

Tsundoku

Ah, I'm going to use that for the lists of tags I posted.

North Læraðr

or you can do "<s>"message"</s>"

<s>like this</s> wait

Mithical

In chat? I don't think so.

Tsundoku

17:43

I tried both <s>sss</s> and <del>del</del> but the tags remain visible.

Mithical

~~strike~~

North Læraðr

hm okay maybe ~~not~~

How do you do that tag

Mithical

[tag:tag]

North Læraðr

meaning

Ah

Cool!

North Læraðr

18:40

Whew, posted my question

And answer

Bookworm

19:01

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Q: Why are so many fairy tales so similar?

In Europe, fairytales have various different names of the same story, or variants. One example of this is Charles Perrault's Cinderella ("Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre") and the much darker, violent version of Cinderella by the Brother Grimms ("Aschenputtel"), where the latter story ...

fairy-tales folk-tales

Tsundoku

19:24

Oh, and congratulations to @Randal'Thor for reaching 40k reps. I've noticed only just now :-)

Rand al'Thor

Thanks! It happened late last night in a flurry of upvotes on my Narayan questions.

@Bookworm @North Hmm. The question is interesting (a bit broad, but not overly so IMO), but a lot more could be said than is in that answer. There must be lots of studies about this, probably people have done whole PhDs just on sub-aspects of the issue.

Bookworm

19:47

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Q: This is an attempt to get my writing juices flowing

I’ve experienced many times when they did not seem to be flowing. And many times when they have. Every time the reason it’s working or not working might be different. But this time I think the reason might have to do with an issue I’m struggling in my life. Am I making a big deal out of nothin...

writing-process love story-of-your-life

Gareth Rees

Yes, there's a whole academic field of folklore, which includes the study of common features — take a look at Stith Thomson's Motif-index of Folk-literature for an idea of the scope of the field

Rand al'Thor

@Gallifreyan Do you reckon this has had enough time/votes/consensus?

Tsundoku

@Bookworm I asked in Writing SE's chatroom where people can ask to have their writing reviewed. It's also off-topic there.

Mithical

20:24

Writing Codidact is trying to get the ability to support that up and running, I believe.

Tsundoku

21:12

@Mithical Done, but it's very basic ;-)

Mithical

November 2017... fair play

Which reminds me I should look into getting Finna.

Gallifreyan

21:28

@Randal'Thor Yes, positive

Rand al'Thor

@Gallifreyan You were waiting for new mods to do it, weren't you ;-)

b_jonas

@GarethRees Right. We even have half of a SE for it: mythology.stackexchange.com has been renamed to "Mythology & Folklore" for a while.

Tsundoku

21:55

@Bookworm My Shakespeare and Dante question is now HNQ.

@b_jonas I didn't even know that that SE existed.

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