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  1. Signposting genre switches (eg. time travel)
  2. Anybody see Grisham on 'Today' yesterday?
  3. A breakthrough!!
  4. Authors that get better with age.
  5. AW Entry List for Nathan Bransford Contest
  6. Just how important is 'that'?
  7. Get Rid of "IT"
  8. Using real names (hotels, restaurants)
  9. Telling
  10. Jerks where I work will appear in my novels.....
  11. The Snowflake Method (merged with Dwight Swain's Techniques)
  12. Starting the second draft...
  13. Problems with a singing MC . . .
  14. Author Biography
  15. Writer's Market
  16. Bransford on openings
  17. Is the novella rising from the ashes?
  18. Top this, if you can...
  19. Are you more factual or creative?
  20. Character Interviews
  21. What is plot? and other discussion questions
  22. Reverse Dictionary and Thesaurus
  23. He said she said, who do I believe?
  24. Anagrams in Character Names
  25. Favorite Revision Process
  26. One line of brilliance, 42 thousand lines of...
  27. Query Letters -- paper and envelopes
  28. A question about the wretched first draft.
  29. To write for gold or for love
  30. Too scared to start editing
  31. Adressing humans of planet earth, on a work of SF.
  32. Can I do it?
  33. Need help with Children's game name
  34. Problem with the appearance of "then"
  35. Request rates on query letters
  36. Finalists are posted!! (Nathan Bransford's First Page Challenge)
  37. Green eyes??
  38. Urgent help needed with reference books
  39. A different kind of Query Question
  40. Mixed Emotions in ONE scene...
  41. Slow Agents: Impatient Me
  42. Getting to the end...
  43. Convention Etiquette
  44. Why can't I come up with a decent pen name!?
  45. When publishers take risks; books that flop
  46. What is 2nd person POV
  47. What's Your Writing Style?
  48. Autographed copies?
  49. Average Word Count?
  50. Opinions please, oh wise AWers...
  51. Character names from spam mail?
  52. Editor or no editor
  53. The traits of addictive prose
  54. Stream of Consciousness Editing
  55. Stupid question
  56. First novel compulete!!!! Now I have a few questions
  57. Is there a term...
  58. what's the worst part of writing a novel?
  59. Tension on every page
  60. Newb.
  61. Back cover paragraph
  62. Delivering backstory in first vs. third person
  63. Help! Need snappy comeback line...
  64. Can't read a book!
  65. What famous novelists wrote as children...
  66. If you think your idea is too far-fetched...
  67. Format w/ 1st person
  68. Things that turn novel readers OFF? (or things to avoid in your own writing)
  69. courier new vs courier dark?
  70. How to format a synopsis...
  71. Perfectionism: When is enough; enough?
  72. First person narrator and killing him...
  73. Is it unethical to query under a pen name?
  74. When enough is enough...
  75. Writing the end first?
  76. wading through the rejection puddle
  77. Am I Boring?
  78. False Starts and New Starts
  79. Unexpected places
  80. Fear of writing?
  81. Would your favorite song be a great novel?
  82. Would this be too cruel?
  83. Question for story.
  84. Brutalize the plot-in-a-line thread
  85. small presses help, please
  86. Plot Holes
  87. How do you start a WIP?
  88. Which comes 1st? Characters or Plot?
  89. What trumps what? Plot more important that good writing?
  90. What's your writing set-up?
  91. Exercises in developing characters
  92. Has anybody written a series of books?
  93. Introducing a character who is not at his best.
  94. Does anyone else have this problem?
  95. What is a good plot?
  96. Omniscient Narrator?
  97. FACT AND FICTION MIXED???
  98. When do you follow up?
  99. Dialogue: Three's a crowd
  100. Drafting, Revising, Editing
  101. Am I the only one who hates writing letters?
  102. All-knowing narrator...
  103. Inspiration is for amateurs
  104. Novel with too much SEX?
  105. What make you care about a character?
  106. Relative Ages
  107. Endings: Happy, Tragic, Ambigous; bittersweet
  108. Quirky characters
  109. Agent wants manuscript ASAP: do I shorten?
  110. Page numbering
  111. Ending on a cliff hanger?
  112. On Writing Great First Lines For Novels
  113. Describing heraldry
  114. Writing Full Time
  115. Is this a good writing style? (actions in fight scenes)
  116. Most fun/Least fun- all aspects of writing and getting published
  117. How much timetabling is too much?
  118. Is it normal to have characters that don't come out the way you want them?
  119. Making Progress
  120. Submissions: First 3 Chapters or 50 pages?
  121. Unreliable Omniscient Narrator
  122. Advantage of Author Assistance
  123. Storyteller vs. writer
  124. Cover letter ?
  125. Ever Get Depressed....
  126. Conflict, but not the main story in first chapters
  127. Mixing fact and fiction
  128. showing versus telling help
  129. To describe or not to describe...
  130. Query to agents or direct to publishers?
  131. When mailing out a query...
  132. Weirdest place where you get "inspiration."
  133. Writing software for novels?
  134. Two books are now one!
  135. Book Contract
  136. Okay I messed up, now what?
  137. Writing that second novel=good for editing?
  138. I don't think i have a genre!
  139. Recommended books?
  140. Another Capitalisation Question
  141. FIRST novel novelists?
  142. Genre Switcheroo
  143. Lawsuits and firing agents.
  144. Writing dialogue for multilingual characters - Advice needed
  145. Some advice for a beginning
  146. First chapter with some foreshadowing...
  147. that time of year
  148. Stories without quotation marks. Love or hate?
  149. What novel - movie most closely resembles your current WIP?
  150. Maintaining the "Fictional Dream"
  151. Odd names - Character names
  152. Second book blues
  153. How much "advice" do you accept and/or reject?
  154. How Do You Edit? Longhand or Computer
  155. Do you finish the scene?
  156. Good way to show backstory?
  157. How to flesh out a culture?
  158. italicizing memories?
  159. Have a quick question??
  160. Laughing. Aaargh!
  161. What do you ask Junior High Students? (HELP!)
  162. How big is a page?
  163. I have an idea for plotting a story
  164. Synopsis- selling point.
  165. This book is dedicated to...
  166. Genre Help and a few other questions
  167. Gay characters
  168. Finding my voice?
  169. Over-obsessing submission quality
  170. Can it help with imagery?
  171. Quick character study help
  172. "Location tags" at the start of chapters.
  173. Favorite lines you've written
  174. What counts as previously published?
  175. The perils of research
  176. Publishing
  177. snare drums and CONUNDRUMS
  178. Setting as a Character
  179. Writing from the POV of the opposite sex.
  180. Internal Dialogue
  181. Too old fashioned?
  182. Cinematic writing in novels
  183. Borrowing a line or plagiarizing?
  184. At what point does description slow down the narrative?
  185. Writer's Digest Writing Competition
  186. Target Audience shift
  187. Language in Fantasy
  188. OK I am finally depressed.
  189. Description: Single-shot or Buckshot?
  190. Help! Now What Do I Do?
  191. Preaching versus Moral in Children's Novels
  192. Poetic v. factual
  193. How/When do you know?
  194. Best Day and Time To Write?
  195. In Your Characters' Heads
  196. Music While You Write?
  197. Do you use a thesaurus?
  198. Stuck on Punk
  199. Consensus on dialects, regional vernacular?
  200. The Writers' Institute
  201. Do we agonize over our words too much? Are we ever "overdoing" it?
  202. Famous Rejections
  203. Who wrote the best battles in fiction/fantasy/historical fantasy?
  204. "20 years later..."
  205. Making time move
  206. Musings in the middle of the night
  207. Finishing a first draft
  208. You broke it, you bought it--when revisions go bad
  209. Do you draw a floor plan?
  210. An Offer...
  211. Make the research come to you, conveniently
  212. Problem with converging plot lines
  213. I think the worst thing about being a writer is...
  214. Oh no!
  215. Villain's POV?
  216. Help me with my plot twist?
  217. How does your technique change and evolve throughout WIP?
  218. wow - coincidence
  219. Another "foreign word" question - hijack vs. carjack
  220. Help rewriting the pledge of allegiance
  221. What would you do?
  222. It's about the missing Muse!
  223. "Show vs. Tell..."
  224. Gender Guesser
  225. Index cards: How to use them
  226. When is it oK to kill your protag??
  227. 1 down, who knows how many more to go...
  228. Book discounts
  229. A question for published novelists regarding taxes.
  230. Series but...
  231. What do you want to do better?
  232. I guess I need some Motivation
  233. Getting Back Into a Writing Pattern
  234. queen or no?
  235. How long to wait before re-reading your draft?
  236. I have this right...right?
  237. Assumption is the mother of all f-ups
  238. Town names
  239. Ah!! I just got my first request for a partial...Now what?
  240. Which opening are you more apt to pick up? Part Deux
  241. How often do you use directional words?
  242. Need Help and Suggestions
  243. "Walk up to" vs "Walk over to" discussion
  244. Pre-Writing?
  245. "I wrote WHAT!"
  246. Look at this!
  247. What happens when the good stuff starts in chapter 4?
  248. Can this manuscript be saved?
  249. State of the Speculative Fiction Novel
  250. How much time and effort do you put into your work? Do you worry about failure?