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  1. Different Query letters?
  2. How many revisions are needed?
  3. How Would You Spell Rock & Roll?
  4. What's wrong with character development?
  5. Creativity: Not a Linear Process?
  6. Prologue vs Chapter One
  7. editing tips
  8. Registration of Copyright?
  9. building your characters
  10. A question about rights
  11. How to format internet chat conversation between characters in a novel?
  12. synopsis question
  13. Chapter Heading Question
  14. Chapter spacing?
  15. Question about capitalizing
  16. Old habits die hard
  17. I've made a serious typo in a query!!!!
  18. How long does a book needs to be?
  19. BIO question
  20. Starting to dislike a character I used to love...
  21. Stage directions
  22. Is It Okay To Have The Same Title As Another Book?
  23. A question of trilogies and new writers
  24. Genre question
  25. Show and tell.
  26. Getting Technical
  27. Is it normal to go through the five stages of grief when killing off a central character?
  28. Back Up Your WIP Day
  29. Writing a dialogue in a foreign language
  30. Barbie Play and Dialogue
  31. Juggling multiple characters in a scene
  32. Publisher went out of business, rights returned, can I resubmit?
  33. Scrivener?
  34. question on beta
  35. Need some advice
  36. Why not headhop?
  37. Still a bother
  38. Pen Names
  39. transition into new chapter..
  40. Use of flashbacks
  41. This Is What Constitutes Plagiarism
  42. Starting Scenes
  43. Query letter for online submission?
  44. "This is just like that..."
  45. Novella vs Novel
  46. Emotional writing?
  47. Is this normal?
  48. How much dialouge is too much?
  49. Scrivener, yWriter, or other?
  50. Does anyone else cringe at the thought of removing central characters?
  51. Moving to a scene out of the plot
  52. "When did I write this?"
  53. Readable Pace VS Emotion/Realistic Progression
  54. I wrote a very short story, can I please have your opinion?
  55. Dialogue Help!
  56. Writers block?
  57. how important is...
  58. Repeated words?
  59. How to show internal conflict
  60. Struggling With A Sentence
  61. Journals to Target
  62. Pleasurement a word?
  63. A question of plagiarism
  64. What of this opening to a short story?
  65. Fables
  66. Why do you write?
  67. In Crisis
  68. Do "green" and "free" create a perfect rhyme?
  69. Finding the Time
  70. A Checklist for Deep POV (in 1st or 3rd person)
  71. Capitals - to use or not to use?
  72. Writers and Authors. How many genres do you prefer to write for and why?
  73. Books on writing...
  74. Use of comma for On Earth,
  75. Felt vs touched
  76. I can't write S-E-X...
  77. Trademarking quotes
  78. Contests
  79. when an online journal goes under and takes your story down with it
  80. What to do about turds [of the writing variety]
  81. Where to research my market?
  82. question about a copyright...
  83. What do you do when a single-paragraph idea in your head won’t become words on the page?
  84. "Inspired by Real Events"/"Based on a True Story"
  85. Starting something and it morphs
  86. Flashbacks
  87. Should Style Change Frequently?
  88. Okay to use name of bridge?
  89. 1st Person POV advice needed
  90. How do you know when a novel is done?
  91. Out the window?
  92. God What Am I Doing Wrong?
  93. Becoming autobiographical
  94. How to write "Time"
  95. How do you calculate word count?
  96. Educating: essay structure
  97. What POV do you prefer to write in?
  98. Can you get away with something like this? [using song lyrics in novel]
  99. Publishing Questions
  100. I Feel Like I Have to Start All Over Again
  101. Lost the spark...
  102. Does posting my story on here void copyright?
  103. What are all the ranks here?
  104. OMG!! A story from nowhere!
  105. Building character...
  106. What's the most common problem you see in the work posted in SYW?
  107. Worst (for you) writing advice you've received?
  108. Dialogue tags, adverbs, and more
  109. What's the most common problem with critiques you receive?
  110. Dark night of the soul graph
  111. Audience consideration
  112. Using word “Yesterday” while Writing Fiction
  113. Too close to real life
  114. Writing in an array of POVs
  115. Grammar question
  116. NaNoWriMo 2011 --- why I failed.
  117. I *know* quoting song lyrics is a no-go, but what about this?
  118. Hardest & easiest part of writing?
  119. Does Writing Backward/Out of Order Work?
  120. When your concentration flags
  121. What about album titles?
  122. God or god?
  123. Book Series question.
  124. Historical fiction, contemporary fiction, -->
  125. Lacking confidence in my writing
  126. How do you know you're not overdoing it when portraying certain ethnic groups?
  127. Having fun writing but...
  128. A Tense Device
  129. Hello, my name's Christy, and I'm an over describer...
  130. Spelling out or just write the number?
  131. Moniker or Titles for Characters?
  132. URGENT postage question
  133. Novel or Memoir?
  134. Over or More Than?
  135. Repeating pronouns?
  136. Italics question
  137. Editing?
  138. 1st person becomes the 3rd person?
  139. How many times can one use the word "cacophony" in a book?
  140. What draws you in?
  141. When to Copyright?
  142. Bad grammar. On purpose.
  143. Where does the period go?
  144. What can I use instead of "Cacophony"?
  145. When your writing seems odd.
  146. Viewpoint Characters
  147. Legal Question [using real person in story]
  148. The definition of a word
  149. How many really great sentences do you have?
  150. Is It Wrong To...?
  151. Fragment, consider revising
  152. Do you suck at certain aspects but excel in others?
  153. List of Publishers
  154. How to handle a repeated expression/action/response?
  155. Response to Hemingway
  156. First Person PoV is like writing a journal?
  157. PoV and Style
  158. Potential Silly Question
  159. Fun Facts and Copyright
  160. Embarrasing question on capitalization
  161. Should I Give Up?
  162. Formatting Thoughts in First-Person Narrative
  163. What subgenre am I writing?
  164. Currency and Communication
  165. "5 Lies They Tell You About Writing"
  166. Forming a Pen Name?
  167. Use of slang outside of quotation marks
  168. The Beginning Just Isn't Coming Together
  169. So I've somehow become someone's beta...
  170. the Art of Rewriting - great article!
  171. Effable or Affable?
  172. superhero with the same name as another hero
  173. Writers' Timeline Software?
  174. Concerned About Head-Hopping
  175. To Outline, or Not to Outline?
  176. Not sure what to do.
  177. The "Something" of "Someone" Question
  178. It turns out I really struggle with writing action.
  179. Are Federal and State laws copyrighted?
  180. Artist or craftsman?
  181. Two character views in a chapter.
  182. Where to start a novel?
  183. I hate "like"
  184. Can I reference Wal-Mart in my book?
  185. 'ing' words
  186. When your PoV dies.
  187. Writing without an outline
  188. Can I use an ellipsis for a pause punctuation in a quote? Or just a dash or comma?
  189. Car makes/models
  190. No-no openings
  191. As a rough guide, what sort of pay could a 1st time UK author expect?
  192. Adverbs -- yet again. A question and comment
  193. character trials getting me down
  194. How do I find readers if I don't trust anyone?
  195. Too long for a MG novel (wordcount)
  196. This is a dumb question...
  197. Chuck Wendig on Rejection
  198. Comic or Comical
  199. How much is too much?
  200. How Would You Describe This House?
  201. another flashback question
  202. Copyright?
  203. When You Don't Know What to Write Next
  204. So just how much writing do you get done in a day? Have you gotten faster?
  205. not sure what she meant...
  206. Books on writing
  207. My Lemma has been split in two [PoV question]
  208. If you listen to music when you write and write more than one POV
  209. How do you use the word 'contemporary'?
  210. Is there really that significant of a difference between 3rd and 1st limited POV?
  211. Thoughts inside character's head.
  212. Pen name, when it's too late to change?
  213. I'd like to start a writing contest!
  214. Is 60K too short for a first time novel?
  215. Capitals for nouns
  216. So how many words per chapter? 3,000?
  217. Who wants to stone me to death if I'm wrong about 3rd Person Omni?
  218. Character Nicknames
  219. Chapters vs. Scenes
  220. The magic formula fairy -- your key to a bestseller
  221. Grammar/Punctuation checker
  222. Cliffhanger Endings
  223. Scene Structure: Hallucinations
  224. Did I make the right call? (Writing in general)
  225. show and tell
  226. Alternatives for smiles?
  227. Can the author give permission?
  228. 3rd Person Omni and Head Hopping
  229. criticism
  230. Can ANYONE write a novel?
  231. Need some help for a Title
  232. Writing time in dialog
  233. Is it true that that a major in creative writing is waste of time (and money thereof)?
  234. COPYRIGHT FOR SERIES... (Questions answered...)
  235. Question About Word Count
  236. "New adult"
  237. Campaign mode vs. Cheat mode (because I'm too afraid to tell you what this post is really about)
  238. Dialogue Punctuation
  239. Help
  240. "In the beginning..."
  241. Do you mention where you're from?
  242. Character's Physical Description
  243. How extensively do you plan out scenes before writing them?
  244. Writing about a protagonist of the opposite gender.
  245. I set out to write a satire, but now it's a drama
  246. Is using an exclamation point kosher?
  247. 2 writing questions
  248. Em dash with comma?
  249. freaking out!!! :( [posting writing samples online]
  250. Do I write teacher as first name or Mr Surname?