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Writers write. They may write ad copy, they may write slop, they may write translations, they may just write out parking tickets. They engage in the act of writing. Authors are a specific subset of writers - writers who create or report (on the reporting side, they may be journalists, they...

People become WRITERS 'just because' - people become AUTHORS' because they have a story to tell. There IS a difference.

You need to try to sell the story in the synopsis, not to give it away, nor to just trumpet your own horn. Just use an example to try and sell it.

Have them adapt a 24/7 news cycle, then ban non-news programs from the airwaves. Guaranteed mass destruction and suicides...

A non-malicious sense of humor.

If the work merits it, then yes. I would like to imagine most of mine is not that bad, but it probably is. If I ever do a full review, I'll probably follow the Shadis model - Shadis was a games-industry magazine that had two types of reviews: Capsule reviews, that had to be mostly positive...

And they named them Romulus and Remus.... I guess they expect one to kill the other and then go off and found a country?

You don't. Sci Fi and Fantasy are closely related, at least in terms of themes and "tactics"; just different skins is all.

OK, that is an epic line I think there's a word or two missing in the bolded part?

I had a college class that spent a semester working on that concept. A word is a collection of symbols designed to convey a concept or instruction, and is, at its core, a mathematical concept (automata theory)

Only Mongo I know of got a candygram... But don't shoot him, you'll only make him angry.

Don't know the second to last one, and have never heard the source of the cabbages one, just heard it quoted. But you cannot predict what will, or will not become quotable. "I love it when a plan comes together" vs. "Well, I have 3% of a plan" Similar lines, one is still in "play" 40 years...

Or you can read Gon - the only text is a sound effect (the character's name - Gon - a miniature Tyrannosaurus Rex). No other text at all.

It either is or was the European standard to use single quotes for dialogue. Double quotes meant you were quoting something external, or having a character quote or mock another in dialogue.

I don't know - I've seen some that didn't seem to use any... :D (Well, there sort of is a trilogy that kind of did not, come to think of it - the Quatsi trilogy: Koyaanisqatsi - which I have seen - and the sequels that I have not Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002); and even the first one...

Not always - sometimes it may be a stylistic choice (though this can drive away some readers; I know I've seen some who used unusual - though consistent - stylings that I just burned out on very quickly), and sometimes the writer is not a native English-speaker (or writer) and the rules in their...

No - song was probably used as a mnemonic enhancer to recall words, and evolved into a separate art form from literature or storytelling. They can cross back over, and there are some stories told entirely in song (not just operas), as well as some stories that incorporate music and song...

"Yes, the only time you need tags of any sort is if you need to add emphasis," the random visitor to the thread stated in a manner he hoped would be helpful. "Otherwise the speaker is implied," he added with a shrug. The visitor pondered this and then, perhaps with a note of sarcasm, asked...

Synopses are WEIRD. Sometimes they stand up, slap you in the face and say: "USE ME DAMMIT!" and the rest of the time they go "eh? you wanted something? Oh, look a squirrel... oh right synopsis? Just write a bit maybe I'll come to you. Wow, that's shiny!"

Most of my thoughts were already tossed out but there's also the John Wick option - someone connected to the plot either believes the MC has something of value or just disrespected them or something, breaks into his place when he's not home, and kills a beloved pet and/or SO or steals or...