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  1. Best piece of advice
  2. How long do you let a novel rest before you continue
  3. POV question
  4. Help me decide on a second book - does genre matter?
  5. Not YA, but main character is a kid. Thoughts?
  6. Novel Notebook
  7. What I learned from my first/second/last WIP
  8. Don't break a sentence.
  9. What's your MC's flaw?
  10. Contractions
  11. Show the sex scene or fade to black
  12. Made up words in novels
  13. Non-Standard Punctuation
  14. Genre Question
  15. Query Now, Or Later?
  16. 3rd person limited novels?
  17. Minors having sex, drinking...
  18. Does the artist love the creating, or the finished product?
  19. Trying to write a shape-shifting novel
  20. 13 Page Detailed Outline. Two Books, or One? Craaap.
  21. Location knowledge vs. experience
  22. One of my major plot points has been used already!
  23. Beginning a suspense novel with a flashback from the future
  24. Music as scene setter....
  25. Chapters
  26. First is good, Second better, the Third...
  27. Paste first five pages?
  28. happy with the writing
  29. Minor Characters Bubbling in the Pot.
  30. Prequel Ideas
  31. How long must my synopsis be?
  32. Does anyone know anything about Better Be Write publishers?
  33. Chapter by Chapter???
  34. Premises that horrify you
  35. Satire or political thriller????
  36. Pespiration or inspiration? Or both?
  37. Killing off everyone in a scene
  38. Debut Length? Puzzzled
  39. Finding Your Voice
  40. How much editing is too much?
  41. Does the entire novel have to have the same "tone"?
  42. A Positive Note
  43. Chapter Size
  44. Changing antagonist
  45. Interesting link - common plots
  46. My Trunk Novel
  47. What's your Shortest time to write a novel?
  48. I don't even have alpha or beta readers, and I've got critics.
  49. Short Genre-Crossing Novella: Any chance at all of being published? Advice please!
  50. Short Story writer desires to write a novel
  51. Flashbacks and dreams
  52. "Catch-22"
  53. Basing fiction novel on real events
  54. Agents that don't take unsolicited queries
  55. word count
  56. Vampires: Oversaturated? Economy: Unbreakable Wall?
  57. Is 68K Words Too Short for a Literary Novel?
  58. Beginning with Dying: Too Cliché?
  59. Question about character names
  60. Story within a Story
  61. Should I Switch My Narrative Mode?
  62. Difficulty
  63. Epistolary novels
  64. Twist endings
  65. How would you react if author....
  66. If I overemphasized how beautiful a character is...
  67. Resolution or cliff-hanger for chapt. endings?
  68. tense
  69. Who reads your WIPs?
  70. Switching your genre half-way through the story
  71. BREAK THROUGH!!
  72. On Writing by Charles Bukowski
  73. The Thread of Colorful Questions
  74. Just funny...
  75. Agent Request Etiquette?
  76. Unplanned events
  77. separation anxiety
  78. Changing tense for a dream/nightmare sequence
  79. How messy are your 1st drafts? ~and is it necessary to revise revise revise?
  80. Increasing a story
  81. Getting Started: Your Writing Rituals...?
  82. Show vs Tell
  83. Agent's Blogs
  84. Experimental Narration?
  85. Greatest Writing Obstacles
  86. What famous writer does your prose mimic closest?
  87. Can bad writers become good writers?
  88. How many novels do you try to write at a time?
  89. Why so many rules?
  90. Chapter title problem
  91. Have you ever .....
  92. How "busy" is your WIP?
  93. Ending a writing session...
  94. Chapterless
  95. Bad Beginnings
  96. Have you ever . . .
  97. Has anyone here gotten a contract lately?
  98. Adjectives - how many are too many?
  99. Stupid character name?
  100. What computer do you use to do your writing on?
  101. Nothing Is Better Than the First Time
  102. Prologues
  103. close third person POV
  104. First person or third person thoughts ...your preference
  105. When Things Finally Make Sense
  106. What does your first draft usually sound like?
  107. Have advice about working with a writers group?
  108. Bio request for full
  109. Points of view
  110. Random Tip from Random Novelist #311
  111. Websites and Excerpts: what to post when
  112. Fun with killing and fornicating...
  113. UK/US Spelling and Slang
  114. Chat with Elizabeth Bear
  115. Novel Tropes
  116. Keeping It Straight
  117. Recap of Previous Novel in Sequel
  118. What stories suit what POV
  119. What do you guys think ..........
  120. "I thought"
  121. Authonomy
  122. Exploring the math
  123. Show vs Tell...
  124. YouDialogue?
  125. The Size of my Editor's Cage
  126. Not a dream sequence, not a flashback. But...
  127. First 50 pages
  128. Starting too Late
  129. PC vs Mac
  130. Another question about writers groups
  131. Sexy nerd
  132. Help! I'm constipated
  133. Competition Submission
  134. Restart my novel?
  135. Wait times on fulls...
  136. Do you know your ending?
  137. Part First Draft/Part Final
  138. How not to write a cliff hanger ending?
  139. The bad guy
  140. How Do I Make My Novel Longer
  141. What do you look for in a literary blog?
  142. A hard problem to fix .....
  143. Cardboard Characters
  144. Have you ever been asked . . . .
  145. POV in Lord of the Rings fights
  146. Bold or No?
  147. Amazon Rankings
  148. Life too strange to depict in novels?
  149. Details on front of manuscript?
  150. How long are your chapters?
  151. Should I cut out a major part of my story?
  152. to italicize or not to italicize---writing dream sequences 
  153. A surprise for the reader?
  154. Introduction Scenes
  155. The 20,000-word wall
  156. When Your Characters Send You Emails
  157. Horror, yet not?
  158. First draft mostly dialogue... Normal or Abnormal?
  159. What do new writers most want to know?
  160. Beta curiousity
  161. And the way they USED to do it
  162. Careful when blog bashing...
  163. Does it get any easier?
  164. Fighting in Writing
  165. The Wrong Direction
  166. Opening sentence of query letter - ARGH!
  167. Making up words
  168. Sort of like Amber's thread, but sort of not.
  169. Chapter Lengths changes during story
  170. Beating a dead horse? (on flashbacks)
  171. How do you decide where in the story to start your book?
  172. Where would you begin this story?
  173. Inspiration or Desperation
  174. What's the best way to convey a character's thoughts in third person limited?
  175. Novel writing: the text adventure
  176. First drafts scare me....
  177. Afraid to finish...
  178. Character Naming
  179. ABNA REVIEWS! JUST RECEIVED MINE!
  180. Use of online researched material
  181. The Story So Far
  182. 1 Week Later?
  183. I always feel so professional
  184. Selling my house, and I need to write an enticing description!
  185. Literary Writing?
  186. The Next Step?
  187. What steps do you take to edit a story?
  188. Editing as you go, or save it to the end?
  189. I'm writing a novel and I have a few questions...
  190. What genre is this novel?
  191. Want to publish some day, but...
  192. Anyone Want to Review my Novel?
  193. Trying to Parse a Distinction – Action Verbs/Telling versus Showing
  194. What sells today...
  195. Your Holy Grail
  196. Show v Tell
  197. Help with story problem
  198. Define "Info Dumping"
  199. Question about Public Domain
  200. Product Placement
  201. Do Any of You Go Both Ways?
  202. Mentioning day job in query letter?
  203. Query widely?
  204. To describe or not to describe
  205. Differing reviews
  206. Chapter Formatting
  207. It's Subjective
  208. Dialogue Tags
  209. Im finding myself to be rather witty.
  210. Is it true that literary novels are more premise than plot?
  211. I don't think it is, but is this "Deus ex Machina"?(TWILIGHT SPOILERS)
  212. Too much dialogue.
  213. To summarize (tell) or not to summarize
  214. Any advice on using FIRST PERSON?
  215. Spinoff: Advice on using Third Person
  216. Write or Die
  217. on killing those darlings
  218. How do you get your ideas?
  219. Best use of an author's time
  220. When Structure Limits Story
  221. What movie captures the essence of what you want your writing to be?
  222. Killing one of my darlings...TOUGH!
  223. On very close 3rd and omniscient POV
  224. Grieving for characters (SPOILERS)
  225. Unusual or Contained Greetings?
  226. Epithets and Exclamations
  227. MC - help me sort this out?
  228. Narrative structure using the format Day: time
  229. Help needed with this scene. The original is implausible...
  230. Can you help me with my plot, please?
  231. I need advice - unsold/unrepped novel possibly given small-time movie deal
  232. Define "navel-gazing"
  233. Antagonist: What Makes a Good Adversary?
  234. Copyright On Really Old Fiction?
  235. What do you do when your novel isnt going anywhere?
  236. Questions about Alphasmart Neo
  237. Editing - What do you do?
  238. The few speak and the many listen...?
  239. The Ninja File
  240. Plausability
  241. Outlining in your head?
  242. About character-driven novels?
  243. I don't think Ninjas will help me with this one.
  244. Electronic v. hardcopy fulls
  245. Bonnet Books
  246. How do you go about finding a trustworthy beta reader?
  247. Would you read a novel where the Protagonist is violent, even homicidal?
  248. From premise to plot
  249. Scene Transitions
  250. 8 line bio