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- Are You Published? In What Genre?
- This sounds so dumb.
- Tell us your Plot in One sentence (merged with writing exercise)
- Offers from Major Publishing Houses!
- Similes and metaphors
- Sample pages format
- What Did You Learn from Revising Your First Novel?
- <name> said. or said <name>?
- My protag would get his butt kicked by my antag. . . what should I do?
- Do you do this?
- chick lit comp
- Web Sites
- Checking for Plagarism
- Dagger in the boot ending?
- Please Show Me Some Uneducated Published Authors.
- Doing a romance novel from the male protag's perspective
- Big problem
- Categories, trends and self-publishing.
- Outline or no outline?
- Another Poll
- Advice on the Last Fight and keeping it good
- What inspires you?
- Whats in a name?
- Help with editing
- What to do when the story is stalled?
- Is there an "IMDB" for writing?
- Agent for a Short Novel?
- Anyone have a recommendation for a book on writing queries/synopses
- Giving Work A Title
- Witholding info from the reader: Fair? Annoying?
- Did I Invent This, or What?
- Questions on narrative style?
- Drop your tips for telling a story via multiple characters here
- Blurb First?
- Novels to Screenplays
- To WIP or not to WIP...
- My POV in my WIP is DOA
- The worst submission scenario
- Novel organization style?
- Do you write chronologically?
- I need help
- *insert swear word here*
- Need a nickname for a serial killer
- First People Narration?
- Write What You Know?
- First Person Question
- A technicality of 1st Person POV
- Vomiting
- Name of Song....
- Sleeping, waking up, eating, etc.
- What Are Your Cliches to Avoid?
- Would anyone like to take a look at my manuscript?
- Should I reposition the genre of my manuscript?
- Novels with a house as a central character?
- Let's celebrate your one-shot, one-scene-only characters!
- Help me name my manor
- Is technology deficient a bad thing when writing novels?
- Don't quit your day job
- Through the eyes of another...
- 3rd Person Omnipotent (or whatever that word is)
- best conferences to meet agents?
- Advice: Editing for Flow, Part 1
- Post a line you love
- Character arc?
- How do you find focus?
- Description...or lack there of.
- First Step
- 15th Century Speech Patterns.
- How do I find a particular author's agent?
- Reading as a Writer is Making Me Crazy(er).
- How Many Chapters in Your Current/Last Novel?
- Thoughts on 3rd person objective?
- Reading out loud...
- How to handle an advance?
- The time-travel/flashback thing...
- Kim Harrison
- Advice
- Emotional distance
- I need to improve prologue..someone help?
- What's a good word count for a novel?
- Writing speed
- What to do?
- Anybody realize their sequel may actually be their beginning?
- "Gone to her Aunt's"
- Ideas that upset you
- my new new novel idea doesnt want to be a novel
- Guidance/advice for writing novels after writing short stories?
- Chapters
- Your thoughts on the novel with no ending (sequel required)
- There lay I, a broken wheel and a spoke, beside the road of trespassers.
- How to express pain
- Audience
- Daily Writing Prompts
- Query - Biography Problems
- Should I be dirty? Y/N
- What You Like vs. What's in Stores
- How far should I go?
- I was wondering...
- Please help me name my MC
- Well...
- Advice: Editing for Flow, Part 2
- Can I . . .
- Are there publishers in Virginia?
- Why a book deal will ruin your life
- Writing Tastes/Styles/Etc. What do you do?
- So many links on what not to do lol
- Present-tense novel/ flashback help!
- Publishing Companies?
- does the publishing industry need revising?!
- US variants of UK English - a short list.
- What happens when you run out of agents to query?
- Is Lulu.com the same as POA?
- Interior Monologue
- Good times?
- endings
- True or false...?
- Dialsoft to grant Authors license to seek publication of the Brimstone series.
- Co-authors
- should I get a hotel room?
- Names link
- Do You Have to Like the Main Character?
- Newbie with some questions
- Interview with King's UK editor
- Walter Mosley
- Start writing novel? Stick to shorts?
- Have you ever scrapped a novel?
- US Copy editor needed
- What conditions are necessary for you to write?
- Tavern Troublemaker
- I'm in the newspaper!
- Suffering: Necessary to be a great writer?
- Advice to a friend
- help me with my ending?
- Why do you write?
- Do You Age With Your Characters?
- First Novel: Beyond the First Draft
- What is the main ingredient of a bestseller?
- Question?
- Novel writing software
- How long did it take you to complete the first draft?
- Why are bad novels bestsellers?
- Trunk Novel?
- Harry Potter's Successor?
- Post-apocalyptic fantasy.. or not?
- Experienced/Published Writers please step inside...
- Musical experiment
- If you had to pick out music to go with your novel
- Here's the situation:
- Printing out for editing - practical question
- Editing Confusion
- One-sided phone conversation
- According to James Patterson, this post is long enough to be a chapter.
- Interwoven Storylines
- Resting Novel, waiting onion
- Coincidence and the improbable; things that would never work in a novel
- Commercial fiction?
- Disturbing
- Should I Tell?
- my new novel idea has agreed to be a novel and not a play
- Using real names
- How bad is too bad?
- What's your MC's personality type?
- lost love
- Letters to Characters in Limbo
- should everything mean something
- Novel from foreign writer
- This Should Be Interesting
- What are your rules on flashbacks?
- Night writing
- Writing from the opposite gender
- When reading, do you ever say: My book is better than this!
- Your Favorite Ghost Story
- Questions to published/unpublished writers
- To write a good query letter?
- The very hardest part
- Do you have a target audience.
- Word Count vs. Page Count
- 13,000 words and not a plot in sight
- What film rating would your novel receive?
- Last chapter POV problem... help?
- Diary Books
- Meeting Agents
- The dumbest thing you've done for a novel
- Info dump clarification
- Is cutting 10 percent really necessary?
- Islam a taboo subject?
- ARGH! Tired of waiting!!!
- I don't agree with "Start on New Novel" Idea
- Current Accurate Sales Numbers
- Writing Music Suggestions, Please
- Using snippets of copyrighted song lyrics...
- Favorite Characters
- Would you recognize this pop-culture reference?
- Conflict...Please explain.
- Some good analogies & metaphors to remember
- Should I Make it More Commercial?
- What am I
- Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level
- Coincidence, revisited
- Are you writing what you want? And how do you do it?
- Is self-publishing worth it?
- Emotionally Connected
- Should I rethink the chapter order of my novel?
- how can you get cheap help editing a book?
- Lost my confidence!
- Profanity in your novel?
- How often do you re-read the whole ms?
- Are you a good writer?
- On Giving Up
- Anyone have advice on rewriting in first-person POV?
- How Would You Feel - What Would You do?
- Hardback and paperback
- Help! Clarification about past/present tense
- Tech question, help this is driving me nuts!
- A question about editing
- Info dumping and show versus tell
- A little helpful advice one the over use of a needed word.
- Where does Action fit into a chapter?
- A Newbie's Question
- To hide or not to hide?
- Can you make a living writing books
- Do names really have that great of an effect on a story?
- Quickie Q -- Magazines in fiction
- Spelling of a foreign word
- Submission plan
- Dear who??
- belongs to which genre?
- Does anyone have any tips for writing a Battle Scene
- Brand name-dropping...
- Public Domain Plays
- I'm so addicted to writing that...
- Did you chose your Genre or did it chose you?
- citations in fiction
- Finding Beta Readers
- The Writer's Contract
- Synopsis...
- Use of real movie titles in books
- Using era-appropriate slang...
- What happens when your character has the wrong name?
- Pen Names?
- Copyright Confusion
- Novel-as-short-story exercise?
- Accessing the Forum/Writing Your Novel
- NEED ADVICE!!! FAST!!!
- What is "telling not showing"?
- Battlescene
- Partial Requested
- Summarize your novel in Bookaminute form
- Naming a fictional character after another fictional character
- Series vs. Sequels
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