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- Newbie question re 3rd person limited
- Does Insomnia Plague You When Writing?
- Some mornings, I just want to kill my computer
- Intrigue-Less
- Controversy in writing; any experiences?
- How do you get down to actually writing?
- Inspiration
- A dramatic scene...
- Step away from the thesaurus!!!
- Self-publishing: a quality issue
- How to write a synopsis
- Flash backs and going back in time.
- Changing POV within a scene
- The believable villain...
- Dead People as Characters
- If I publish an NF book first....
- Writing Tip: Peaks and Lulls
- Description Game
- Note taking necessary?
- Rewriting as revision.
- Love
- Local legends/folktales
- Mail help
- The Perfect Theme Song...
- Help! What gets your hormones raging?
- Fictuonal setting reuse
- It’s My Favorite Because . . .
- Title troubles.
- Too many characters, not enough room?
- How many projects do you work on at once?
- Sex scenes or not?
- Oh, Not Good
- sex scenes--explain this to me
- Developing New Characters
- What are your criteria for ditching a WIP?
- Free Writing Software I Stumbled Upon.
- overwhelmed and lacking solutions
- Question about querying...
- How quickly can characters fall in love and still be realistic?
- My novel might be TOO offensive
- Inspiration
- Help me identify a figure of speech?
- How much should the MC help the reader?
- Number of words?
- Help! How do I interpret THIS rejection?
- One idea, a dozen different stories
- Solo MC vs. Interacting MCs Chapter Length
- Story grows over time?
- What's your preference with chapters?
- Writing dialogue phonetically, or not?
- Do male readers get much from sex scenes in novels, or are they aimed at women?
- MS length in word count
- Ridiculous question about film rights
- Extending a scene? Pacing yourself.
- Foreign Languages
- the publishing process....
- Word question (Microsoft program)
- Should a query give the WHOLE plot?
- Big Bang or Multiple...
- Commas and.....
- powerful prologue, first chapter let down
- Over the transom. When does it become a good idea?
- Agent Protocol Question
- I know agent hate it when your query starts with the wrong Mr/Ms, but...
- Critique Anxiety
- Is it possible to die of waiting?
- small fry question about film rights
- Name help?
- One Wheeled my first full book
- Noddies, Shruggies and Head Shaking
- Scene by Scene
- ONE WHEELED EDITED
- Heard editors less likely to look at 1st novel>100K words. Seems odd
- Trilogies
- Weird Dilemma
- You're much appreciated.
- Writing Tip: Peaks and Lulls Language
- MAKING CHARACTERS LIVE
- Novel Bloopers
- Is this a bad idea?
- Hardest genre
- Nanosecond Refresher course on Third Person...
- Distractions during a major scene
- What is your "WHAT IF?"
- So Robert Jordan has dies before finishing the Wheel of Time. Your thoughts?
- IS "Outsider" an acceptable term for an otherwordly entity?
- How would you define the genre
- Using mixed first/limited third POVs
- On the job hazards.
- Queries/Synopsis: do you add this?
- How long to send Partial/Full?
- Pen names genre and gender
- The more you read it the more you hate it...
- Writing
- Character Names
- Getting lost in my own world
- Epiphany: Magic and Showmanship, a Handbook for Conjurers
- Why, oh why?!
- using words??
- I started editing my third novel, and you know what, it doesn't suck!
- Question for the Ladies - sorry gents!
- Publisher switching from mass market to trade, good or not so good?
- Anybody met their writing idol?
- For those who've completed novels, or finishing a novel...
- Amazon??
- Can you see your dialogue....
- Running on dialogue...
- What's the best opening line of a novel you read?
- What novels have you read more than once?
- A Tough Choice for Point of View
- Smooth Move, Ex-Lax
- the 'rules' of writing, i.e. what you'll find in a critique....
- Anyone ever done Holly Lisle's One-Pass Manuscript Revision?
- It's gone
- DEFINATELY NEED AN ACCOUNTANT!
- Beginning sentences...
- What authors have you stopped reading?
- Dairy of a madman.
- Accelerando: Speeding up the first draft with magic feathers
- waiting??
- Which of these two books do you buy?
- I need your help!
- Experimenting...
- Advice on scene transitions required
- The actor you picture playing your characters!
- advice to first time novelists....
- Two formatting questions
- Character Names in Titles
- A ramble...and an odd question
- Two Weeks After Pub Date
- What do I do now?
- Accidentally switched POV
- A Killer beginning!
- Silly sex question of the day
- I have an idea for a story
- A silly formatting question
- Crossing-genre Question
- Author/Novel Trivia
- Number of pages.
- Illustrator questions???
- A little help.
- How many chapters a day?
- Advice on plot development?
- Newbie Hello!
- I hate to hit and run, but . . .
- Writing the believable
- Comparing your work to...
- WORDCOUNT BLOOPER!!
- Do you drink when you write?
- What Writers do you HATE
- By Hand Vs. Computer
- This sentence needs you.
- Is this cheating?
- Is this plot too complicated?
- The grand giveaway: opening lines
- That "feeling".....
- Serendipitous novel events
- A spastic question
- To email or not to email
- Why Can't I Get it up?
- Author's Bio
- Martial Arts Fiction?
- The End!!!
- So, what are YOUR vampires like?
- Time within your story
- Nothing like a room full of accomplished people to get your motivation going...
- All the documents of my computer have been erased! I have lost my two novels!
- This is what it's like!
- WILD SEED
- Help needed - wording for letter with full
- Status Query...
- Storytelling Options
- Gripping paralyzing fear
- When is it an acceptable turn of phrase and when is it a cliche?
- The Secret to Clean Prose
- Writing is like going to the gym
- I can't find conflict!
- Harlequin (?)
- Need help describing a scene...
- Here I go again...edit yourself or some one else (?)
- Oh RATS. What do I say?
- More help please!
- Who's my protagonist?
- To edit, or not to edit (as you go)?
- I'm writing a prologue...!
- Do Most Harm: or, how I learned to stop worrying and dance topless on tables
- National Book Festival Tomorrow (Sept 29) in D.C.
- Has writing changed you?
- need a word SOMEBODY!!
- Word count
- Spam, Trademarks, and Capitalization
- Is there a tactful way to show child abuse in novels?
- Weirdest Scene You've Written (or Why I Need A Counselor)
- How doI improve my story?
- Trouble portraying an unreliable narrator
- Freudian slip!
- A real live slushpile
- Tips on writing a summary?
- I'm scared of my own book now that it's done...
- Query vs studying an agency and making up an idea?
- Vocal Impressions on NPR.
- Holy Jumping-Heads, Batman.
- Any advice for me
- Cigarette smoking in YA
- Chapter Endings
- facial hair or not??
- What Donald Maas Literary Agency is looking for: 10/07
- Popular Writing Blunders!
- Any experience with queries when it's a collaboration?
- Famous living people as characters?
- Amazon debut novel contest?
- Great scenes you've had to cut
- Dialogue
- Oh just livid...
- heard from my agent
- confused!
- Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg.
- Too Wordy...
- Emotional breakdowns....
- Writer's groups- your experiences
- Writerly quirks
- where's the ...
- Is it a psuedonym if...
- nanowrimo
- Is it all you dreamed it would be?
- Jennifer75's "I have a question" thread...
- Cause For Concern
- Minor C takes over MC's place: Should I let it continue?
- How Important Is Character
- How do you write.
- Breakouts and blockbusters redux?
- Read this if you want to angry up the blood
- novel trailers??
- Writing books for established fantasy universes
- Character Introduction...HELP!!!!
- Has this happened to anyone else?
- Starting With Non Main POV Character
- Should MC die at end?
- Editing Advice
- Abysmal Issues with Copy and Paste in eQueries
- Being Edited
- Why do I prefer my passive sentence?
- 2 questions: 1st about pianos & 2nd about writing sounds as words
- Paper or plastic? No seriously, paper or email?
- Said
- Page numbering problems
- "Split" keyboards
- The not knowing will keep me up at night...
- Stupid sentence question
- finished novel woes
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