- Character name change
- Titles - how do you choose yours?
- Citing another author's ramblings
- How to write / what makes a story
- A Troublesome Sentence
- Query Statistics/Averages
- A fistful of anonymous supporting characters
- Exactly what is speculative element?
- Verb needed to with "Mmm-hmm"
- Question on use of caps with Poker
- Where should I post my writing?
- trying to find a certain phrase...
- Please help with this paragraph
- Scenes Vs. Chapters
- How many characters should a book have?
- Spelling
- what genre would this book be?
- Said and thought
- How to start Eight?
- Subgenre guide & Word Counts?
- Starting sentences with "but"
- What's wrong with this sentence?
- Another Question About Pseudonym
- writing out all numbers? - time, years, ages
- Need help with a song title.
- Plot Devices
- John said? said John?
- Legal (copyright) question
- -st ending (among/amongst-while/whilst)
- Weird question about word count
- Dashes
- I can't articulate anymore....
- How do I kill off my 1st person character?
- Copyrights on Pop Culture Catchphrases
- Cover letter needed with Vita?
- Overly real dialog--is it bad?
- Time of year to query
- Detail Problems - big words, flowery descriptions
- The Big Reveal--when to release information and when not to?
- How many pages this?
- Said, Replied, Asked, Responded
- Commas
- Sending Manuscripts - simultaneous submissions allowed?
- Query envelopes-handwritten okay?
- Editing question
- Which is correct? - same character speaks again, keep in same paragraph?
- Writing Dates - spell out day/year numbers?
- Do agents cost money?
- MLA reference
- Can I use...
- Show and Tell Confusion
- Quoting Authors, Songs, other References
- Question about split infinitives : )
- Would this be considered trademark infringment?
- Pen Names
- My Cousin Vinny defends Hanibel Lector - Copyright issues
- Repeating . . . - include summary of previous chapter?
- Quick Question - redundant title?
- How can she get away with this?! (How to make bad things happen to your character.)
- Why write?
- Is a Kiss Just a Kiss? or is there another way to say it?
- Question marks in thought dialog
- Curriculum Vitae vs. Portfolio
- Full Moons & Platinum Pens
- Page Settings for novel
- Yodaisms and Telling...
- Another title question.
- Word Count UK
- What things should writers avoid at all costs?
- Character Names (do they affect how you perceive the character?)
- Some questions on point of view
- Said-Bookisms, Tom Swifites, What have you
- Preface vs rest of story- P.O.V question
- How do you quote lyrics being sung?
- Every time I sit down to write...
- POV switching
- Is there any other way? (how to describe unseen people/creatures)
- Question on Third-Person Omniscient
- Random Question (author using initial, middle name and last name)
- Canadian, Eh? (A question about spelling)
- Divine Dialouge
- Breaking the fourth wall
- Quick question on tense
- Sign Language Portrayal in Writing
- can of worms...
- Double-Spacing After Punctuation
- Queries
- Time for a Name Change?
- Toward or Towards? Farther or Further? Is there a rule to this?
- Sentences without verbs
- Using Words in a Foreign Language
- Maximum Word Count and Agents
- MC sees future...but it's psychic
- In the know?
- Timescale
- Sympathetic Characters
- Quick question
- Need opinions on this sentence.
- Help! It’s my 2-hour time of rewriting and I suck at it.
- Probably a silly question to ask... (SASE mailing/return addresses)
- Character Names. (I have my own question)
- Main Character(istics)
- Singular 'their'
- Standard MS Format - Australia
- Third person limited vs Focused Omniscence
- A question about punctuation.
- Is there a word...
- How do I mention this
- STYLE Element
- Opinions on a sentence
- Lay vs. Laid
- Best way to lay out a plot?
- Argh! What format for the Full?
- Is this the correct wording?
- What is a canon sue?
- dashes -------
- Query format questions
- Fictional Memoirs ?
- Flashbacks
- Is There a Hidden Message in Your Writing?
- Synonym for (bad) singing?
- Is there a word for this?
- Smelt or smelled?
- First Question..
- First Drafts?
- Tense
- How do you do your re-writes??
- Is this irony?
- Some constructive feeback?
- Dashes --- II (incomplete thoughts---)
- Unemployment
- president/presidency... emperor/?
- Legality of retellings
- POV and tone of narration!
- The Name's the Same
- First one always the hardest?
- Is It....?
- How do I structure this idea?
- Total no-no to switch POV?
- This sentence- good, bad or ugly?
- Simple idea machine
- What does "lyrical" mean to you? Examples of Lyrical Writing?
- Distracted by my plot
- Sending book round before it's finished: a good idea?
- Style problem.
- Help me rewrite this sentence
- How do you write a day of the month?
- How long should an outline be?
- How Do You Go About Proofing Your Work...
- To 1st person or not to 1st person - that is the question. . .
- Information on MS Headers
- Contractions
- Creation of the Universe (Prologue)
- Word Count
- Absurd v realism
- Posting my novel online
- what is necessary for article writing
- Random Questions From a Newbie
- Dialects and Dialogue
- Mixed Fonts
- Ditching Adverbs
- Passive Dialog Difficulty
- Em Dashes??
- I feel like I've made no improvement
- Ma'am or Madam?
- think of starting a book
- First Person Narrative - Selecting a voice
- Which genre to write in?
- How do you combat the revision blues?
- Researching Tips?
- Anyone else loves research?
- Creating and Developing Characters
- Writing Great Dialogue?
- Does this sentence make sense?
- Writing Books Recomendation
- Writing Course - "write a book in 28 days or less"
- Assuming a new identity
- Do I Always Need To Explain Why Characters Are Flawed?
- How to write? PERIOD!
- showing vs telling - 1st vs 3rd person
- tooth/teeth
- A question of tense
- rhetoric problems
- Problem with internal dialogue
- Beginning Writing Mistakes (article on agent Kristin Nelson's blog)
- Show and Tell
- Flat vs Round Characters
- Question about a diary...
- Profanity
- 5300 words = how many paperback pages?
- Melodrama
- Do you try to form an emotional link between MC and reader?
- The overuse of a single word
- What is the difference? Giggling vs. chuckling
- How do I fix an overuse of It/There
- Plot holes
- Did you have to retrain yourself… to delete that 2nd space after the period?
- Best and Worst Kinds of Characters
- OK to start a novel with dialogue?
- To first person or not?
- Do these paragraphs flow? + passive vs. active examples
- Who are "you" "we" "us" ....
- Looking for my Title
- How do you deal with information already known?
- Young Adult new to writing.
- Brainstorming Techniques
- Writing YA?
- Advice anyone? - starting a novel
- Internal Conflicts
- Question about Point of View (moved from Novels)
- Short Story to Novel
- Skinny Fingers description - which version?
- Organization or Ad Lib?
- Quotation marks...?
- definitions please
- Do you know of any writers that...
- I am looking for some good grammar workbooks...
- run-on sentences
- Contraction Conundrum
- Paragraph ending - suggestions?
- The Cone Gatherers help.
- Books To Improve Writing
- Audio-books, The Cone Gatherers...
- Repetitive Spelling Errors
- Lonely MC and show vs tell
- Exclamation in dialogue...
- Another Dialogue question...
- Is it plagiarism if...
- Readers Block!
- My Problem (Several problems with writing technique)
- Repetition
- Where to "Finish" Your Book Before Taking it to the Editor?
- This Paragraph Seems Awkward, Help?
- To Edit or not to edit?
- How to check wordcount?
- Some basic questions. (unsolicited mss.? SASE?)
- Apostrophes and capitalisation.
- How to format reading aloud
- Period dashes ... for want of a better term (ellipsis/ellipses)
- Ingenious character development techniques
- Question on introduction to the story.
- My Haven of quick-n-dirty questions...
- Interviewing Characters
- Which Plot?
- When to Show and When to Tell?
- Excerpt POV Question
- Start new paragraph for dialogue or stay in same para?
- What to do when writing becomes "work"?
- Weak Characters
- Don't you just wish there could be music...