Questions tagged [complexity]
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Reconciling alternate world names with real world ones
I am working on a setting that, in part, chronicles the history of a space faring civilization. The early parts of this chronicle is also an alternate history that is analogous to our own history. For example there was a great civilization that…
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What kind of rough draft is necessary for writing prose with sophisticated sentences that flow with cadence?
If I want to write complex sentences in a composition, and make them flow with cadence, should I write my rough draft with complex sentence structures, or should I write it with simple sentences and do sentence combining on a middle draft, that is,…
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How do I draft without limiting my opportunities to add complexity during revision?
Writers are encouraged to write first drafts, and not to worry about cadence, complexity, sentence structure, etc, until they are done composing it. And during revision, they may see that some sentences can be combined. One way to combine them is to…
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Focusing on content when quickly drafting seems to reduce the potential for using certain parts of speech
Writers can combine sentences in various ways. Doing it one way, they can take a sentence in a rough draft with a main verb in the progressive past tense, and add it to a clause of another sentence with a main verb in the simple past tense, adding…
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Daunting Complexity Required of Fictional Narritives
I have written little fiction throughout my life, but I want to start. However, I am intimidated by the complexity required of quality fictional narritives. One of the elements of fiction, the three act structure, seems like it takes some time to…
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