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- Bummed
- POV question
- how to find ideas for novel
- Albinos
- Writing chronologically?
- Pen name?
- I have to redo an entire character... and it's a good thing!
- advice
- As you know, Bob
- How to write a good western book
- How many of you DID NOT give up on your first novel?
- Different kinds of Giving Up on Novels
- Willful characters: now I get it!
- Is a bad thing to write more than one book at a time?
- Hodge podge of approaches
- Question about secondary characters
- What is the most important thing in writing?
- What's the shortest chapter you have read?
- Do you revise as you go?
- Has anyone read this new book?
- word count
- need another word for devil
- P.O.V. issues
- Help with endings . . .
- Is there a forum for WP help?
- Just finished reading a new novel by Jack Whyte. "lesson learned"
- What is wrong with this picture?
- three pov's of same vision
- Need help!
- "He tossed his head."
- Maps
- Topics?
- being in utero with a publisher: a minor bind I'm in
- Advice for a kid?
- Write about the past? or use Flashbacks? Help
- Did I screw up?
- Question about online stories to novels
- Unreliable Narrators?
- It Pays To Read: New Course with our Managing Editor!
- Poll: Are you a writer or a novelist?
- Mistakes
- Geek Confession: Dungeons and Dragons made me a better writer!
- Now that's GREAT writing!!
- Fiction based on people you know
- The Debate on Show/Tell
- Good right wing novels...
- Band name opinions
- He shrugged with a smile, nodded his head, raised an eyebrow and stared
- writing qualifications
- Mention of other novels in your own?
- First Time Romance Novelist
- Welcome to my Box: A Venting Thread
- writer's myths? urban legends? Need a word
- Distinguished agent wants a partial, but...
- And she's an ENGLISH teacher?!
- Fantasy Evolution question
- I can't think of it!
- Point of View.
- Cannot for the life of me . . .
- Do you read your own work?
- to write sophisticated (present) or to write whatever
- I push myself to write....
- Contract
- Submerging the I
- Do any of you quit reading while you are writing?
- 2 hours later...
- They say that to everyone...don't they?
- False start? Should I start over?
- Book in Two Parts
- Sci-Fi Novel Writing Question.
- How do you usually feel about your first drafts?
- Kill Your Children
- do your work in the format you'll send out?
- what is the rule for time?
- Be glad you don't live in Turkey!
- Do you write everyday?
- Is the Bible public domain?
- When do you spellcheck?
- If this isn't a reason to keep writing I don't know what is
- Same intital for names
- Outlining
- dads out there - help!
- how many themes can you get away with?
- Stagnant Locations? ACK!
- Book Writer Software
- Chapter Lengths?
- What is the difference?
- Too many ideas!!!!!
- Synoptic spasms...
- Query Q's
- Story Progression or Writer Progression?
- did you know?
- Computer Alternatives
- Revising vs. rewriting
- Any famous novelists trolling this board?
- Agent Critiques first 3 chapters to benefit Apex Digest
- need help
- Wrists: Longhand vs PC?
- Questions to ask "Beta Readers"
- Villains/Opposition thoughts please...
- Describing Faces: How important?
- On rejection, and the prospect of selling out.
- humour in serious stories
- Question about 78 Reasons...
- Post-novel blues
- First vs. third person viewpoint
- Request for some day job guidance
- Avoiding...*those* words.
- Unsolicited MSS/submissions - I is being confuzzled.
- Background Music
- I'm sure this has been discussed, but I can't find anything about it
- Naming Chapters or just numeric?
- Revision dilemma
- Worthless fact of the day
- Must you say the MC's whole name at the beginning?
- Ok, this must be the dumbest question ever...
- Any benefits to working in a book store?
- I hate this expression!
- Resending revisions
- 272 pages is how many words...?
- What's with all the year old threads?
- This morning, I turned an innocent person into a brutal murderer.
- Stepping outside your genre
- HP fans - coming soon
- WHen its just SO many ideas.....
- Cameos
- BBC news - an interesting article about writing boom
- Have you ever seen someone reading your book in public?
- Metric in my WIP?
- How do you shut up the voices?
- Getting away with cliff hanger endings? Thoughts please...
- Writing for pleasure versus writing for purpose
- Cure for Writer's Block
- Idea culling question
- Fictionalized story, real poems
- Do you map?
- Group Dynamics
- What's the best way to credit him?
- Bums on seats.
- (Un)Motivated Protagonists
- Would This Be Considered Defamation?
- Stephen King in The Washington Post
- A different form of writer's block?
- Requested Manuscript Turnaround
- Query Woes
- Figuring out what to write about
- Banned Book Week
- Go Back Up Your Work Right Now
- Writing Forums... a good thing?
- Dramatic versus Melodramatic
- How long is too long a wait on a three-chap partial?
- The Shorter Side of Things
- I dread the synopsis....
- All the little fillers and noise
- Addressing an agent
- Earning money as a writer: selling of a characater
- Local betas
- Agent Pitch question
- If the MC is a teen, is it automatically YA?
- Chapter Breaks - yay or nay?
- Happy Book Launch Day, Liam!
- On The Angst of Writing
- Georgia Mom wants Potter Banned..
- Crapometer reopens on Dec 15th
- Planning your novels?
- Continuity Glitches
- mapping your novel
- How do you co-write a book?
- Do you always have a genre in mind?
- On Outlining
- Origins on a Demi-God
- Leeway
- When is it okay to start looking for betas?
- Breaking the Rules
- Would you read it?
- Does any one agent send different versions of form rejection letters?
- Fantasy fans: A question
- Favourite Author's Website
- My darn wrists and how they're stopping me from writing...
- Should a new author try for a trilogy?
- Going mental, I must say
- The Next One
- Funny Fonts
- Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead!
- Publishing a Trilogy?
- Of interest
- Same name of charachters
- How Old?
- approaching bookstore?
- The Dan Brown Hate Club
- House of Leaves
- Pearls from Lit Agent X
- Fat little notebooks
- National Endowments for the Arts
- Genre: One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
- basic novel publishing q's
- Bad science in books!
- Am I cursed?
- What's a healthy word count for a novel?
- Writing Romance
- Is This True?
- International spelling
- The Dean Koontz Dislike thread!
- Authors that You Love?
- Prewriting
- Too Foreign?
- Finally on Amazon!!
- Query Letter and my Previous Novels.
- Revising: Going from One Draft to Another
- Should I take her offer?
- Most over-/underrated pre-1950 novels
- Need POV advice.
- An Obvious Quality Change
- The Rowling Loathing Thread!
- "you" and "i" in narration
- Is Solomon "okay"?
- Questions about a series
- Phonetically Speaking Dialects
- Character Name Issues
- Epigraphs- Yay or Pfffft?
- How do you allocate words between thick detail vs. plotting?
- I have an advice question on how to market my story.
- Head-hopping. Why do it?
- TiddlyWiki and Writely
- Storytelling: speaking vs. writing
- Novelist Interviews
- editing to first draft ratio
- omens and foreshadowing
- Uneven Points of View?
- snail mail vs. email (for queries)
- Do you need to leave your novel alone for a while before editing?
- Street Life
- Building Tension
- "One-Pass Manuscript Revision"
- getting the plot going
- More Genre Confusion
- Self limitation
- Anybody use novel writing software?
- Name switching - advice?
- put "Delta Airlines" in a novel?
- Do we have a lawyer that would answer a question for my WIP?
- So they don't say it to everyone...
- How long is too long?
- How many author agents should you query?
- Will publishers look badly upon a pseudonym?
- Storytelling, not plotting
- Typical font?
- Where to end?
- Self-doubting
- Yo! U.K. people! Question from a Yank about the Queen's English
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