- Guidelines Questions
- RESUME Question
- Resume?
- Submitting to a Publisher
- Query/Cover letter to an editor/publisher, how are they different from an agent's?
- Dividing chapters
- Agents and the nets that snare them
- Question about credentials and expertise on a subject
- Submission Question
- Writing Fiction effectively
- How would you go about doing this?
- Using an established character
- Legal question - use of real organization
- MAINSTREAM vs GENRE
- Preface or Foreword?
- Correlating # of pages
- Prologue question please
- Third person past tense?
- Character synopsis?
- Indent or no indent?
- Word Count for First Novels
- What if the piece you write is good but...
- indenting first line of paragraphs
- Naming Locations
- Why do people charge money for critiquing?
- How do you keep track of your ideas?
- synopsis always present tense?
- Perils of Showing First Draft to Family
- Would you find this book idea and this character offensive?
- Could I lose or Keep Readers?
- "Hi," John said -or- "Hi," said John?
- Oooooo...a new forum!
- What is the thrust power of a Saturn 5 rocket?
- Help! I'm stilted! What does this mean? See sample.
- 3rd person multiple with a dash of Omniscient
- So, why a Basic Writing Questions forum?
- Physically describing the 1st person MC
- What's a "Mary Sue" character? (aka Marty Stu, Gary Stu)
- How do I beat the FEAR?
- Apostrophe + S for Names that End With the Letter S
- What does purple mean? (as in "purple prose")
- Is there a section for posting inspirational writer quotes?
- Story anchored in genre vs. interchangeable story
- Does anyone use a Outline?
- Picking Viewpoint
- Deus ex Machina?
- Write what you know?
- Ellipsis...is there an alternative
- Head Hopping vs. Omniscient Narrator
- Is it okay to *die* in first person past tense?
- Do you know any good links to writing sites that could help?
- Writing your story in present tense
- Write a Best Seller without First Securing a Buyer?
- Can you publish a book from your Internet writing and blogging?
- Publication Query
- Hehe, Feedback is so addicting, please help.
- Should I be a novelist or scriptwriter? / Theater play submissions
- Stories that use fairy tales
- Ideas on how to create a little Suspense?
- Determining Audience
- Quick Question! How long should a chapter be?
- Who can you trust/how can you protect your brilliant novel/synopsis/screenplay?
- A rather simple question... the art of Zen breathing
- Book Bindings - self-publishing
- How do you have time to write?!
- To Title or not to Title that is the question
- OpenOffice - software for writers
- Just curious? - writing methods - index cards
- Simultaneous Subs
- Sagging Middles?
- Copyright before you send to an agent or publisher?
- Write for money or readers?
- Copyright question - describing buildings and landmarks
- Finding your genre...
- żDo we have to like the MC?
- how do you know what to edit out?
- One last bank job turns sour! Believable?
- Italics and Japanese Words
- When is it important to tell?
- Writing about a "nameless" character
- Question regarding YA voice
- Tenses and POV?
- As a reader, what POV do you prefer?
- How much is too much? Balancing dialogue & narration
- Naming conventions - first name or surname?
- Writing Articles question! - submission format
- Is it a must for the writer to visit the places described in his book?
- Getting to know your characters
- What separates YA from Literary?
- How to start article, novel, etc??? your way
- In this thread we will list the ways your characters can say something...
- How to figure out my novel's audience?
- is it better to plan or to flow
- Using names of songs
- Okay, help with this. - passive "matter-of-factly" writing
- First Person POV
- Planning
- Looking for Advice on writing novel - structure, routine
- how to flow from one paragraph to another
- spelling out numbers
- World Building question
- Question about publishing, sort of.
- Sara's 10 Basic Writing Tips
- Italics for Names of TV Channels?
- Is there a name for this syndrome?
- This first draft is so frustrating. ARGGGGGGGH >:-(
- dissertation sample
- How do you know if this is forced? Things there for the sake of the story?
- cliche monster
- Help! Stuck in the land of False Starts...
- Dialog in distant times and places
- Writing about scenes that you haven't been to.
- Repetition - when is it useful, and when does it get in the way?
- Writing a character's thoughts
- suggestions to improve my English so it sounds more natural
- Loud Noises
- revealing background info via dialogue/thoughts
- Murder mystery v. thriller
- Monomyth and Joseph Campbell (Hero's Journey)
- Hi, first timer here. My novel is done :)
- Thoughts on why protagonist would...
- What makes High Concept?
- Screams and contractions
- Need quick geography help, North Pole, land mass
- How Can I Tell If It's Plausible?
- What Constitutes Middle Grade Fiction?
- What are these new genres?
- Requested Materials Question
- He laughed?
- Synopsis and Outline...
- Chapters?
- A how to write that guaruntees publications. Learn the secrets of J.K Rowling.
- First Person -- Does it really matter why a narrator is narrating?
- Classes / sites for free grammar help
- Two questions...
- courier new...or just courier
- POV Cheating! :)
- Owl-Online Writing Lab
- How to vary the beginnings of sentences?
- Just a quick question... - announcer, herald, master of ceremonies, booming voice??
- need a word! - fall from grace, reputation ruined
- Participles, dangling or not...
- Third Person Limited
- What is a Beta reader?
- How to Fuel Your Idea Machine
- What's YA?
- Choosing names for characters & locations
- Italics in Manuscripts
- Share Your Work
- Page Formatting
- First Person dillemma - tell or show character feelings?
- I'm too attached to my main character.
- What's Action Adventure?
- Idea management - too many ideas! how do you keep track?
- Question about profanity in novels...
- Ask Jason and Derek...
- Copyright status... OK to use Greek gods?
- A Matter of Life or Death - kill off main character??
- All Caps Plus Italics vs. Quotes
- Can you do this
- Need Help with Character's Direct Thought
- Getting copyright permissions to quote poems in fiction?
- Writing Software
- show don't tell
- What is a WIP?
- I decided to write in third person. But I have a problem.
- I want to submit a novel, but...
- Mixing Fiction and Non Fiction
- A Few Legal Questions....
- MSWord No Good For Book Writing?
- Writing Female characters
- I am so lost
- Help! MC and POV question
- Book editor recommendation
- Book lengths
- About query letters
- Is this Correct?
- I love writing style & beauty articles.....
- Need help with first person please...
- Mary Sue
- When to introduce another POV character?
- How to classify - fiction or non-fiction?
- Question - mainstream or genre fiction? page length?
- CAPS FOR YELLING!
- How to indicate/format sections in novel manuscript
- What's that tone of voice called...
- When do you consider yourself a "writer"?
- When characters recite
- converting file problem - moving text from MS Works to Word
- Author vs Writer
- Growth and subplots - are they required?
- What does author insertion/interference mean? - Authorial intrusion
- Is It Frowned Upon? - Omniscient unlimited POV
- novel-"ettes" vs. novels vs. short story
- Sentence fragment
- Details: how much is necessary and how much is annoying?
- Postage price hike and SASEs
- Map Advice Needed
- Writting makes you dumberer
- show versus tell example - showing too much?
- Agent Interest - harder to sell screenplays vs. novels?
- permission to quote others
- Are dialogue tags sometimes added for reading out loud?
- Allen Guthrie's Infamous Writing Tips
- Am I Out Of Tense?
- i need help with sentence
- Using a second language
- POV cheating
- Two Quick Questions - line edit vs. critique / SASE vs. S.A.S.E.
- Are Names Copyrighted?
- Omni-limited POV
- Help with Fight Scenes
- Unusual POV question
- Lots of questions...kinda long post.
- Making up words
- Rehashing Synopsis Issues
- Nom de Plume
- How can I write this sentence?
- Forced Dialog
- Example of "money flows to the writer"
- When You Revise?
- was/were - please help
- Plural family names??
- Is It Too Quick?
- Too much of THAT
- Shouldn't time make one better?
- Is this word commonly known?
- Word Font for MS Submissions ?
- Questions re opening sentences - do they grab you?
- Brothers or Brother's
- Need help breaking down dialogue/internal dialogue
- Sentence space?
- Agent request - first 50 pages?
- Good Ideas, Terrible Execution
- Quotations on dialog - single quotes preferred over double??
- What is Info-Dump?
- Another thread got me wondering... characters too flawed?
- Need some help with this opening line
- The first few pages...
- The first sentence
- Writing years and numbers
- Book of Writing Exercises
- Pen names
- Passive words
- Is a question always a question?
- Is this plagiarism?
- Formating a collaboration - author(s) name(s) in page header, title?
- Give me an example of a character flaw?
- Journal Entries
- I need to be schooled