- Quotation marx [straight quotes vs. smart quotes]
- 'too fast' vs 'too slow' Intros
- email malfunction has put me in an awkward agent position
- How to make the reader care about a character
- Prologue - mistake or fine?
- slow typing?
- Inspiration
- Characters falling in love too quickly?
- I feel like I'm writing several books as one.
- Too open?
- Can I get an example of infodump vs. detail
- Opening scenes - heart-thumping-thrill-ride-with-the-lot, or something else?
- Describing Accents
- Take time to think of when you began writing.
- How to make it clear who's speaking
- Character in hiding/alternative identity
- Do you believe in Mary Sues?
- Do you round up the word count in your query letter?
- Does this need italicized?
- First book :)
- I've lost all confidence in my ideas and writing ability
- Fantasy or Memoir? Genre...HELP!
- Fix it or keep trying?
- Writing character's thoughts in third person omni
- Beta Reader, Expert or Other?
- Is "dead body" redundant?
- Push through or perfect?
- Trouble with organization
- How long is too long to solve a mystery
- "Fiction novel"...
- loss for words?
- Is there a special thesaurus like this?
- Gathering ghostwriter info.
- WRITING MY BOOK (Non fiction)
- Which comes first, the story or the genre?
- Pictures. Useful or not?
- ethics question. [is beating up/torturing suspects ok?]
- Legends Writing Ideas
- Reinterpretating draft
- A problem in particular (relatable characters and POV among other things)
- About Show and Tell
- Querying after rejection?
- Rewriting a Short Story
- trunking a novel without revising?
- WIP Overload
- Question about multi POV in Third
- would you consider a "red herring in the flesh" to be a waste of character and words
- Edits requested on reprint--alright?
- Same-speaker dialogue broken by action
- Introducing New Races in a Fantasy Story?
- Brainstorming/plotting exercises?
- toward/forward/backward or towards/forwards/backwards?
- What is the difference between a pitch and a query?
- Paradoxes in Writing
- Father Time and the Muse
- Learning the MC's last name
- Setting a Pay Rate for Non Fiction
- Good setting?
- What's On Your Mind About Your Writing?
- A question about pen names
- How old were you when you first wrote?
- Genre question: story about yourself as a child
- Revise, revise; or get it right the first time?
- How to show deliberate melodrama?
- Efficient sounds
- "i said to myself, only half jokingly" does this need a hyphen?
- Writing Workshops Question
- what do you believe are the elements of immature writing
- To 'get to know you' Theme
- Young Adult/ New Adult/ or just plain Adult?
- "Emotional Truth" and the Far Limits of Creative Nonfiction
- Creative Writing Programs
- So... what about starting sentences with
- Supporting Characters
- English vs First language
- Ughhh so LOOONNGGG
- Is This Actually Helping?
- What does this mean in your opinion?
- What to call it?
- Losing sleep over "the rules"
- Surreal Writing
- Your Book Of Rules to Writing
- Vague critique statements that drive you bonkers
- Question About Extending My Novella
- Where does my book fit?
- Does This Happen To You?
- Questions about editing
- I need some assistance, please!
- How much fact?
- Question RE: Finding an Agent
- Good research website?(or something like that)
- A newbie and the BIC method
- Writing dialogue in another language.
- What are the rules for using sounds in dialogue?
- ritual versus routine
- Do you capitalize letter i? I?
- Do you write stuff in order?
- vocabulary questions
- ''the moral of this story is''
- novel based on another (recent) novel?
- OCD Reading
- Average writing hours per week.
- Can I write this?
- request for social security number????
- Action Tags Preceeded by Incomplete Dialog
- Scene Assistance (Dark and Scary)
- would you consider this deus ex machina? if so, do you think there is a way of fixing it?
- homage paragraph, or how to avoid infodumps
- Name dropping a fictional brand AND having two characters in two places thinking the same thing
- On writing...
- Prologues or Not?
- Is femslash or lesbian romance fiction too niche?
- Fee Based Writing Markets
- Tag Lines
- I'm In a Weird Mood
- Why can't I write something normal? And does it matter?
- Any Advice on 'Triage'/'Shotgun' Editing?
- How do you write?
- Help describing a mannerism
- When I don't write...
- Lacking simple sentences.
- short story markets that take forever to reply
- Images
- How would you describe a David Sedaris or Herb Caen storyline?
- variety is the spice of life
- Is this ok to do? [book title used elsewhere]
- A question in the middle of a sentence
- I can't write essays.
- Where do you write?
- Silly little quirks you can't get over
- Quoting from copyright-expired works: where does translation fit in?
- Writing difficulties from external sources [balancing family/work/writing]
- When to say "I want to use a pen name"?
- Proper Speech in MG Dialogue
- Am I wrong? [edit requests prior to acceptance]
- underlining internal dialogue
- the pitfalls of repetition and how to overide it
- Do you call yourself a Writer?
- Hash Tags [hash marks # to signal new scene]
- real people in fiction
- Name/Title/Page# or Title/Name/Page#
- How do you recapture that feeling?
- Ready to publish
- How do I get better at knowing people?
- your writing goals at the tip of your fingers
- Better descriptions
- Nom de Plume Questions
- Adverbs addressing time
- Do you find this confusing?
- Writing essentials
- I have a problem...I can't stop posting here!
- No room for 'passive' and 'weak' underdog MCs?
- Deadpan - Acceptable dialogue tag or not?
- Editing & Rewriting
- Need tips on how to smoothly link events in a scene
- First Chapter problems
- Multiple POV issue
- Which Perspective do you prefer?
- How do you cope with this?
- Epitome [and other oft-mispronounced words]
- How would you write this?
- Using Gotta and Oughta in first person
- Between narration and dialogue.
- Writing Habits
- Am I Worrying for Nothing Again?
- Instant Messaging
- father, dad, mother, mom
- Stuck/Unstuck
- Indicating disappointment and sadness.
- Is this sentence incorrect?
- What genre is this??
- Describing family members in 3rd person
- 10,000 emails - a book?
- Screenplay or Novel?
- He/she asked? Is it redundant?
- Need help writing in 3rd person POV
- a Question on Dialogue
- does this sentence make sense?
- Bad Writer vs Simple Writer
- Language when writing from child's viewpoint
- "Hiss" as a dialogue tag
- question on POV
- Level of Detail in a Synopsis?
- Dangling modifiers okay if clear?
- Black and white pictures/diagrams in a novel
- Publishing Fantasy as a Minor: is it possible?
- Nit-picky questions
- Quick question
- 10,000 words and conflict?
- Making the Transition from Journal Writing to Creative Writing
- Your MC is unlikable, and you don't have much of a hook
- Speaking of the Waking Up trope...
- Cryptomnesia, Homage, or Theft?
- The Beginning
- Describing Facial Expressions
- When an agent asks for a full...
- First chapter introductions
- Prologues, good or bad?
- Authors writing as the opposite gender
- Third person limited or omniscient?
- Plot holes?
- Character descriptions
- Story telling techniques - clueless
- Pace of plot progression?
- Collaboration???
- Early Morning Description
- Tiered story quotation marks
- Combining First and Third Person Perspective
- difficulty going from idea to story -
- Is there a 'best' way to switch scenes?
- Use of Different Fonts/Styles
- Need - writing advice
- Ooh vs Oo
- Beginning a Novel in the Past
- More Memoir Writers Should Have The Courage To Do This
- Episodic novels vs I don't know what the word is
- As A Writer, What Are Your Weakest Points?
- Pantser or Outliner (and why)?
- "Any similarity to actual events"
- Methods for staying positive
- Something to inspire you
- Study stories
- Consult the Wall.
- What sort of literary role could I fulfill?
- pictograph languages--what's the linguistic term?
- First Draft Blues.
- It sounds stupid - but is it fiction or non-fiction?
- A dash vs. a "....."
- Anyone else get this feeling?
- Using names of existing people for character names?
- Depicting hallucinations
- How to Find Trademarked Words?
- When to send a second nudge email
- Why 1st person?
- 'He Caught Himself Thinking'
- Using 'that'
- This Current WIP Keeps Swtiching POVs on Me
- Can one use too many "she"s or "her"s?
- Affect vs Effect Quiz
- I don't know who my antagonist is
- Writing Jags
- Co-writer?
- What to do in this situation?
- Inspiration nights
- implicitly problem
- Short story writing
- One Wish
- Rare book printing rights
- Another Chekhov's Gun thread
- Tracking in a Series