I understand that lists or specific book requests are forbidden on SE groups , though I don’t really see why, apart from the fact it would take up lots of time and generate multiple duplicates. I also saw that on meta, there were several questions about how to deal with lists of books, but I...

Is it alright to speak about pirated books in writers SE? This is a controversial subject I am not sure how to approach the issue. For instance, when my interest in potentially being a professional writer was rekindled, I downloaded over 5GB worth of writing books. Some a general and some focus...

I was looking at http://writers.stackexchange.com/posts/17467/revisions where I noticed that the question had been tweeted. Cool but the #! in the tweet-link causes problems. Is this a common problem?

I have been spending time online since yesterday trying to understand the difference between analytical summary writing and critical writing. I intend to write an analytical summary essay on the topic of gender bias in academia after going through multiple sources (e.g: two academic research pap...

I have invented a setting I think is kinda cool, but I have no story for it. Now the question is - should I develop a story for this setting or is it bound to be a bad story, because not developed for the reason of the story but to throw light on a setting? For those interested, it's an Science ...

In a novel I plan on writing soon, the main protagonist (and indeed nearly everyone else in the story as well) is an elf. Humans are present, but they are far in the mountains, living in disorganized tribes, and barely ever mentioned. Will my reader have trouble identifying with an elf at first...

I had some individuals submit anonymous small stories about themselves that I wanted to compile into a book..... I don't know who they are and it's based off a research project I did. Can I turn these stories into one book?