Questions tagged [asking-questions]
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What are the guidelines for asking for a critique of my work?
I want to ask for a critique of my work? Can I do that here?
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Would there be interest in a promotional "question drive" of sorts?
Around SE the team has been known to sponsor a variety of contests to encourage quality content on the different Q&A sites. For example Seasoned Advice has a topic of the week contest where one ...
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How do we encourage participation by non-fiction authors?
We've gotten some feedback from a variety of non-fiction authors that they don't feel that this site is engaging their demographic very well.
Charles Stewart said so here on meta. He seeded three ...
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Answering my own questions
I have recently gone several times through the following process: I struggle to solve some issue or other in my writing. Since this SE is so useful, I formulate my problem as a question. Having gone ...
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What is the official line on Mega-Questions?
With reference to:
Publishing Fantasy versus Realistic Fiction (multiple questions)
It is my opinion that requests for the question to be split down are a little over zealous. After all, one of the ...
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Specialized template for Critique Requests
This policy discussion is now out of date. Critique questions are off-topic on Writers.SE. Please look for more recent posts on this topic.
We frequently have difficulty with questions phrased as ...
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Is it OK to ask for proofreading a small text in here?
I have just written a short description (a few paragraphs) for a small software project. Not being a native English speaker, I'm looking for a few people to proofread it, correct mistakes and improve ...
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When discussing fiction, should there be more effort to clarify and/or acknowledge the writer's overall goals?
I've noticed that quite a few fiction-related questions are asked here without a clear indication of the writer's ambitions for the work in question. For example, are they trying to produce:
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Updating Questions After Receiving Answers
Writers.SE is the first Stack Exchange Site I've ever been involved with - I just happened to stumble across it one day while surfing the web - so I apologize if this might seem obvious to many of you....
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