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Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing,[…]
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If you use, or are considering using, Patreon, you might like to take a look at their Terms of Use first. Particularly this clause:
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Before your eyes glaze over at the next paragraph and you click away, bear with me. This is quite interesting[…]
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Read moreThings you don’t know you know
“Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac.”
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