- Different Query letters?
- How many revisions are needed?
- How Would You Spell Rock & Roll?
- What's wrong with character development?
- Creativity: Not a Linear Process?
- Prologue vs Chapter One
- editing tips
- Registration of Copyright?
- building your characters
- A question about rights
- How to format internet chat conversation between characters in a novel?
- synopsis question
- Chapter Heading Question
- Chapter spacing?
- Question about capitalizing
- Old habits die hard
- I've made a serious typo in a query!!!!
- How long does a book needs to be?
- BIO question
- Starting to dislike a character I used to love...
- Stage directions
- Is It Okay To Have The Same Title As Another Book?
- A question of trilogies and new writers
- Genre question
- Show and tell.
- Getting Technical
- Is it normal to go through the five stages of grief when killing off a central character?
- Back Up Your WIP Day
- Writing a dialogue in a foreign language
- Barbie Play and Dialogue
- Juggling multiple characters in a scene
- Publisher went out of business, rights returned, can I resubmit?
- Scrivener?
- question on beta
- Need some advice
- Why not headhop?
- Still a bother
- Pen Names
- transition into new chapter..
- Use of flashbacks
- This Is What Constitutes Plagiarism
- Starting Scenes
- Query letter for online submission?
- "This is just like that..."
- Novella vs Novel
- Emotional writing?
- Is this normal?
- How much dialouge is too much?
- Scrivener, yWriter, or other?
- Does anyone else cringe at the thought of removing central characters?
- Moving to a scene out of the plot
- "When did I write this?"
- Readable Pace VS Emotion/Realistic Progression
- I wrote a very short story, can I please have your opinion?
- Dialogue Help!
- Writers block?
- how important is...
- Repeated words?
- How to show internal conflict
- Struggling With A Sentence
- Journals to Target
- Pleasurement a word?
- A question of plagiarism
- What of this opening to a short story?
- Fables
- Why do you write?
- In Crisis
- Do "green" and "free" create a perfect rhyme?
- Finding the Time
- A Checklist for Deep POV (in 1st or 3rd person)
- Capitals - to use or not to use?
- Writers and Authors. How many genres do you prefer to write for and why?
- Books on writing...
- Use of comma for On Earth,
- Felt vs touched
- I can't write S-E-X...
- Trademarking quotes
- Contests
- when an online journal goes under and takes your story down with it
- What to do about turds [of the writing variety]
- Where to research my market?
- question about a copyright...
- What do you do when a single-paragraph idea in your head won’t become words on the page?
- "Inspired by Real Events"/"Based on a True Story"
- Starting something and it morphs
- Flashbacks
- Should Style Change Frequently?
- Okay to use name of bridge?
- 1st Person POV advice needed
- How do you know when a novel is done?
- Out the window?
- God What Am I Doing Wrong?
- Becoming autobiographical
- How to write "Time"
- How do you calculate word count?
- Educating: essay structure
- What POV do you prefer to write in?
- Can you get away with something like this? [using song lyrics in novel]
- Publishing Questions
- I Feel Like I Have to Start All Over Again
- Lost the spark...
- Does posting my story on here void copyright?
- What are all the ranks here?
- OMG!! A story from nowhere!
- Building character...
- What's the most common problem you see in the work posted in SYW?
- Worst (for you) writing advice you've received?
- Dialogue tags, adverbs, and more
- What's the most common problem with critiques you receive?
- Dark night of the soul graph
- Audience consideration
- Using word “Yesterday” while Writing Fiction
- Too close to real life
- Writing in an array of POVs
- Grammar question
- NaNoWriMo 2011 --- why I failed.
- I *know* quoting song lyrics is a no-go, but what about this?
- Hardest & easiest part of writing?
- Does Writing Backward/Out of Order Work?
- When your concentration flags
- What about album titles?
- God or god?
- Book Series question.
- Historical fiction, contemporary fiction, -->
- Lacking confidence in my writing
- How do you know you're not overdoing it when portraying certain ethnic groups?
- Having fun writing but...
- A Tense Device
- Hello, my name's Christy, and I'm an over describer...
- Spelling out or just write the number?
- Moniker or Titles for Characters?
- URGENT postage question
- Novel or Memoir?
- Over or More Than?
- Repeating pronouns?
- Italics question
- Editing?
- 1st person becomes the 3rd person?
- How many times can one use the word "cacophony" in a book?
- What draws you in?
- When to Copyright?
- Bad grammar. On purpose.
- Where does the period go?
- What can I use instead of "Cacophony"?
- When your writing seems odd.
- Viewpoint Characters
- Legal Question [using real person in story]
- The definition of a word
- How many really great sentences do you have?
- Is It Wrong To...?
- Fragment, consider revising
- Do you suck at certain aspects but excel in others?
- List of Publishers
- How to handle a repeated expression/action/response?
- Response to Hemingway
- First Person PoV is like writing a journal?
- PoV and Style
- Potential Silly Question
- Fun Facts and Copyright
- Embarrasing question on capitalization
- Should I Give Up?
- Formatting Thoughts in First-Person Narrative
- What subgenre am I writing?
- Currency and Communication
- "5 Lies They Tell You About Writing"
- Forming a Pen Name?
- Use of slang outside of quotation marks
- The Beginning Just Isn't Coming Together
- So I've somehow become someone's beta...
- the Art of Rewriting - great article!
- Effable or Affable?
- superhero with the same name as another hero
- Writers' Timeline Software?
- Concerned About Head-Hopping
- To Outline, or Not to Outline?
- Not sure what to do.
- The "Something" of "Someone" Question
- It turns out I really struggle with writing action.
- Are Federal and State laws copyrighted?
- Artist or craftsman?
- Two character views in a chapter.
- Where to start a novel?
- I hate "like"
- Can I reference Wal-Mart in my book?
- 'ing' words
- When your PoV dies.
- Writing without an outline
- Can I use an ellipsis for a pause punctuation in a quote? Or just a dash or comma?
- Car makes/models
- No-no openings
- As a rough guide, what sort of pay could a 1st time UK author expect?
- Adverbs -- yet again. A question and comment
- character trials getting me down
- How do I find readers if I don't trust anyone?
- Too long for a MG novel (wordcount)
- This is a dumb question...
- Chuck Wendig on Rejection
- Comic or Comical
- How much is too much?
- How Would You Describe This House?
- another flashback question
- Copyright?
- When You Don't Know What to Write Next
- So just how much writing do you get done in a day? Have you gotten faster?
- not sure what she meant...
- Books on writing
- My Lemma has been split in two [PoV question]
- If you listen to music when you write and write more than one POV
- How do you use the word 'contemporary'?
- Is there really that significant of a difference between 3rd and 1st limited POV?
- Thoughts inside character's head.
- Pen name, when it's too late to change?
- I'd like to start a writing contest!
- Is 60K too short for a first time novel?
- Capitals for nouns
- So how many words per chapter? 3,000?
- Who wants to stone me to death if I'm wrong about 3rd Person Omni?
- Character Nicknames
- Chapters vs. Scenes
- The magic formula fairy -- your key to a bestseller
- Grammar/Punctuation checker
- Cliffhanger Endings
- Scene Structure: Hallucinations
- Did I make the right call? (Writing in general)
- show and tell
- Alternatives for smiles?
- Can the author give permission?
- 3rd Person Omni and Head Hopping
- criticism
- Can ANYONE write a novel?
- Need some help for a Title
- Writing time in dialog
- Is it true that that a major in creative writing is waste of time (and money thereof)?
- COPYRIGHT FOR SERIES... (Questions answered...)
- Question About Word Count
- "New adult"
- Campaign mode vs. Cheat mode (because I'm too afraid to tell you what this post is really about)
- Dialogue Punctuation
- Help
- "In the beginning..."
- Do you mention where you're from?
- Character's Physical Description
- How extensively do you plan out scenes before writing them?
- Writing about a protagonist of the opposite gender.
- I set out to write a satire, but now it's a drama
- Is using an exclamation point kosher?
- 2 writing questions
- Em dash with comma?
- freaking out!!! :( [posting writing samples online]
- Do I write teacher as first name or Mr Surname?