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how do you go about writing a book?

 

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I agree with fraggleRocker SpuriousMonkey. The best thing you could do is practice: maybe get a job for a magazine/newspaper. Dictionaries are very sueful. try to have one at hand. Not only can spellings and definitions be found but Punctuation is also listed i.e. colon, comma and even i.e. is listed. I didn't even know that i.e. was supposed to have another dot after the e until i checked.

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If you want to read and write then that's what you must do: read and write. It's as simple as that.

 

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Re: Reading vs. Writing

And that is when the eternal question must be asked: Who to you ask for feedback?

Writing - punctuation, grammar, spelling - can be taught, and you know when it's technically right or wrong, but creative writing is a whole different ballpark.

 

I'm not sure whether I should take this particular thread seriously or not.
I DO know you have opened "a can of worms". Your posts will now be scrutinized by many.

I, personally, forgive MOST foreigners for their poor grammar. At least they are trying.
However, if they can afford to make posts here, then they can surely afford Word, Wordperfect, or some other "aide".

 

Re: How to write a book.

I wrote some scientific papers.
I am editor-in-chief of a very local journal.
I wrote about 2 and a half chapters once on a book on the history of science, but then switched careers.
I wrote some stuff on my website.


And i don't know the subject yet. My main problem is that I am not a native englsih speaker. That might hinder me most and I am not interested in translations, because i hardly use my native language anymore. Therefore it is almost as bad as my english.
I guess it was a bad idea to write a book.

another question then

Is punctuation really that important?

 

Re: Re: How to write a book.

I felt a stabbing pain shudder in my shoulder! It immediately sent information to the axons of the brain - images, colors, flashes - and I was uberwhelmed, sending me searching for truth, because I wanted, desperately, to believe in something. Oi vei, "I thoght to myself." Or, ay yi yi. I was fed up. The towel had been tossed in the ring. The white flag waved. Finitio. Wow, this makes no sense, but I think it was guided - towards the end - by a dream.

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Now, what was the question?

 

Re: Re: Re: How to write a book.

you made a spelling mistake..is that a capital offense similar to punctuation errors?

 

The first you need to have is an interesting and unique topic.

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i evah a cipot:

'the social structure of sciforums'

 

I can hear the death knell ringing in the ears of the hierarchy, armed to the teeth with negating precision...the finger of power firmly set on the button..the social structure of sciforums..has the vaginal ring about it

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:m:

 

I guess the first thing to ask yourself if you have a story or message you wish to tell.
I see no reason in writing just for the sake of writing.
If something moves you, than you end up writing about it without any thought as to how you are going to come up with an ideas.
They just flow out of you.

That's why I don't really understand the concept of writers block.
If you don't have something to write, why the hell are you writing?

 

i usually write about nothing....i like nothing...see my website for examples.

 

Fraggle, please work on my essay (or whatever the verb is, criticize, judge, whatever). I wrote it extemporaneously...


As Spinoza says that "truth is its own measure" as opposed to Protagoras, the truth is a concept that may seem vague at sometimes. Many philosophers have tried to define what truth means and how it is obtained, but it seems that truth is really its own measure. Such case is illustrated by M. J. Adler, who talks of "the simple problem of truth" and "the difficult problem of the truth" in one of his works.

He claims that the simple truth is generally obtained by searching for the correspondence between one's perception and reality. This, generally being personal, may contain subjective truths such as opinions. However, the dilemma lies in the difficult problem of truth. Adler goes further into the depths of the process of acquiring truth and he deals with the problem that emerges as the steps in obtaining the simple truth becomes more complex. He says that there are cases such that one cannot compare what one knows and what one wants to know because measuring one by the standard of another would not surely bring truth to light.

In addition, Adler claims that there is the impossibility of interactions between the reality and the beings such as ourselves. We may be able to ask reality questions, but the reality simply won't respond or it cannot respond, for it is not a being. Reality is what Sylvia Plath precisely describes in her poem "the mirror". It is neither prejudiced nor cruel, but only truthful. But once again this causes the emergence of the same question. Is reality necessarily truthful?

In many cases, this case seems to be valid, but we will never know if truth and reality are mutually exclusive, since Adler's case also makes a coherent plea.

 

spuriousmonkey
can you find the punctuation error?

 

i thought that there were 2?

 

Fraggle... would you mind working on my essay?

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i just plain hate proofreading my own manuscripts...usually you have been working on them for quite a long time and basically you are fed up with them. And then come the final proofs and to be honest I hardly proofread them. In fact, it is rare that I would actually reread my own work after it has been published.

You are just happy that the nasty teenage child has finally left the house...