- Question about formatting
- Stuck
- Novella + Novella = Novel?
- What Font Do You Use For Your Novels?
- Using Celebrity Names!!
- Your Writing Process
- Switching POV only once or twice...a no-no?
- Subplot Problems
- How do you progress from the idea for a story to writing the detail of that story?
- 1st or 3rd?
- Do you slouch or sit straight when typing your novel?
- Pen Name Bio
- Only 115 word per page! WTF(luff)?
- Help with foreshadowing and creating tension
- Why use a pen name?
- Typewriter Use
- do Excerpts work?
- Using Inanimate Objects
- Avoiding an info dump when describing a scene
- Developing characters- any tips?
- An odd question: Tourettes in writing.
- Writing in Second Person
- what exactly are the rules with adverbs?
- Writing a story with only dialogue
- Constantly Unfinished Work
- Singular nouns ending with an 'S' or 'Z' sound.
- Editor lingo--what does this mean?
- How do you know which form your idea ought to take?
- Do you use "Tab" or just "enter"?
- Perspective: skipping heads in a series?
- Show Vs. Tell
- said vs asked
- Dialogue format
- Is it dopey to work on the query letter before the book is finished?
- Chapter Lengths
- Permission to use a real setting
- Long versus short paragraphs
- bad advice?
- Writing while tired.
- Synopsis Question
- NARRATION SHIFTING -- IS IT OKAY TO DO THAT?
- Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
- Begin with a question?
- Creating characters
- I use too many pronouns
- Spaces Between Sentences--One or Two?
- Convert your Novel into a Short Story = Synopsis?
- I have two questions!!!!
- What email do you use to query/submit?
- What's the difference? (story lengths)
- How much do you think when writing?
- Spacing
- Ok or okay?
- character infringement/conflict
- :A couple questions from an apprentice:
- How often do you write yourself into a corner?
- How to avoid pronoun overuse when MC has no name
- Age difference in romantic/sexual relationships in fiction?
- How to manage massive revisions...
- Querying on the Weekends...
- Use of all caps
- A bit of plot help (to create antagonist)
- Doing a worse job results in being more motivated?
- Is it normal to feel really lost?
- What is so fascinating/entertaining about evil and the fall
- Is there a word for this action?
- Short story/no dialogue..
- SHIFT POV IN FIRST PERSON
- Using brand names as character names?
- "story question" question
- Is my work finally safe?
- When do you know?
- With multiple POV first-person characters...
- Editing: Corrections taking the life out of the story?
- Do you ever wonder where it comes from sometimes?
- Narrative and Context: What's the Difference?
- Editing for Endings
- Should (very) minor characters have names?
- Summarising Plot
- How to go about making a storyboard
- What does it mean to "write Black"?
- authors and betas..
- re-write woes
- Proper Formatting and icky page numbers. What do I do?
- Plotting FAIL.
- Skipping Ahead In Time
- First-Person, or Third-Person?
- My plot splits more than cheese-string.
- Character Driven Plot?
- Editing software
- First person (MC writing a letter)
- Describing the Sky
- Second Person Perspective
- 'Common' problem (OK to use real location name?)
- Synopsis in present tense?
- Co-author question
- What books helped improve your writing????
- Character Memory Loss-To cliche?
- Writing prompts: how to?
- Describing Characters When Introducing Them
- HOW TO KEEP THE PAGES TURNING (link to blog article)
- WTH should i do????
- What to call these characters who aren't related, but are closer than friends...
- Heart
- About a sentence
- Past Tense Issue
- Novella/Novel Word Count (YA)
- Protagonist reminiscing - how to write it?
- Character names ending in S
- Is This Too Sudden?
- First-person omniscient--really???
- Setting creation
- One, Two or Two, One...?
- So...accents
- First Person Issue-My character's voice is boring!
- Include prologue in requested chapters?
- How Did You Feel When...
- Change of perspective
- A simple sentence
- Is it wrong to change perspective?
- Gut feeling in writing
- Picking names for characters...
- Using Famous Quotes and Lines
- About a sentence
- Time skips
- Referencing actual products/Companies?
- I Mostly Tell, Hardly Show
- When writing Dialog
- Chapter length?
- Major Rewrite or Lock it Away?
- The actual mechanics of writing fiction
- "sudden" transitions
- Flat characters - help needed
- " (text deleted)
- Different Kinds of Scenes
- Pacing narration vs dialogue and action
- Why are dialogue tags such a no-no?
- Prefaces
- What should a newbie read?
- Submission screw-up
- World Building with Info Dumps
- Using email to write?
- PoV characters separated in time
- Paper vs Pixels
- how to switch from distant memory to "present" in past-tense narrative
- Sony e-reader 600 touch edition--good for writing?
- Tell me about partials, please.
- what does temporary period of exclusivity mean?
- Dialogue tags...
- "OK" vs "OKAY"
- Anti-heroes
- Close Omni - In a Short Story?
- thoughts in past tense or present?
- What Determines Character Actions and Dialogue
- Literary Constipation
- characters, setting...but no plot
- Two scenes in one.
- Time Jumps in odd places
- Child's pov in adult novel
- Showing Events Out of Sequence
- What's In a Name? How names relate to character development.
- Deciding How To Begin
- Is there a science to the rhythm of writing?
- 1st and 3rd Person Narration
- Flashbacks... Should They Be Italicized?
- Minor Characters
- Character's Thoughts
- Improper use of second person?
- how do you create a "living" character from the ground up?
- A painting-esq experience versus a plot.
- Writing As You Go Versus Outlining Ahead Of Time
- Querying Without a Synopsis?
- So.... (looking for ways to improve writing)
- Book within a book question
- How do I get back in the teen mindset?
- Trouble doing anything.
- How do you know when to end your stories/when your stories end?
- Where do you like to write?
- Each Writer's Uniqueness
- Childrens book or young adults?
- Can't Get Any Writing Actually Done
- Incomplete sentences? Are they sometimes OK?
- How can I make my character less of a whiny emo kid.
- To show work or not?
- Revisiting Old Work
- How do you organize?
- I'm so full of questions - sorry!
- Issues with P.O.V.
- How do I write my name?
- Describing the Past During Narrative
- Starting conversation after a beat.
- Avoiding misunderstandings
- Episodic Middle
- The protaganist villian
- Making a more sympathetic MC - in the 1st chapter
- How many to query at once...
- Something I've never understood about past tense...
- Asking Questions in Third Person Past Tense
- Proper tense for narration?
- A Synopsis Question...
- Story vs Character
- Is exaggeration a poor form of storytelling?
- Do Scene Breaks Change the Scene?
- Awkward Query Question
- Choosing Your Name
- Chapters/Scenes That Start With Statements
- Should I Pull My MS from Consideration?
- Do you cuddle before writing?
- putting music lyrics in my MS
- Using real places and events in a work of fiction
- Question on public domain-and why it is
- Problems putting imagination into words
- How to critique prose when you're new
- Underlining titles in manuscript format
- When writing how many stories should you be doing at one time?
- First person and info dump
- Essential Reading?
- Cover Art Questions
- Character flaws...
- What do you do when you're not technical competent enough to write a scene?
- The libraries kinda suck here (looking for agent info)
- How do you "write to find out what happens next"??
- Losing track of the story while writing?
- Editing question!
- Scene setting vs infodump
- Spaces (1 space or 2?)
- Giving more depth to characters
- Translating languages
- Adapting Published Projects
- Middle Names
- sick of using the word as
- Page Count
- Quick Question (2 actually) (double-space email doc? synopsis length?)
- Novel Format
- Submitting my manuscript question?
- Is it bad if something is obvious?
- A Rather Silly Question... (1 space or 2 spaces????)
- Describing a characters physical movements as it pertains to his POV
- when quotes DON'T have to be sourced/cited?
- Song Title in a Book- Copyrights?
- backstory- how do you deal with it?
- Dictation software
- Dialogue Tags
- Finding a new publisher
- A quick question (how long do you spend writing?)
- follow-up of dialogue lists?
- Confused About Preposition(s)
- POV Change
- Books on Writing
- Word Use Question (Of vs About)