This is a bit complicated to explain. Here's an example: She had blue eyes and extremely curly hair. It looked like a cluster of ferns in a mountain forest. OK, that was an awful metaphor, but you get the idea. Is it OK as long as the next sentence is clear about which item is referring t...

I finished writing an essay about why economists must heed the factual data presented by environmentalists as the future of the world (and us) depend on it and I cannot think of a sufficient and elegant title. My previous title was... odd... probably because I wrote it at 3am but it was "The Cru...

We've had some discussion about what to do with old questions that are no longer on-topic here. We aren't getting a clear consensus, so maybe it'd be simpler to talk about actual questions rather than generalities. Let's use the answers here to post actual, old questions, along with a suggested...

I understand that publishers get a lot of manuscripts to read, so I am wondering, are publishers known to reject a story from an unknown author the moment that realize he is using a so called experimental style? For example, suppose that I have written a novel from a second person perspective,...