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  1. Reality of a NYT bestseller
  2. How Do You Know When to Quit?
  3. POV - your thoughts
  4. Squeezing a Plot out of Character Development
  5. Son of Ninja - Making More from Less: Growing a Story
  6. Book packaging?
  7. Anybody make the ABNA semifinals?
  8. WHAT DO YOU THINK MOST PEOPLE PREFER .....
  9. Slice of life novels/stories without conflict?
  10. "Dear reader" books...
  11. Getting Out Of The Mood?
  12. Which would you take?
  13. Dedicatee's role
  14. Mayday! Mayday! Need Advice ASAP!!
  15. The Quote
  16. Made up words
  17. How Long Do You Let It Simmer
  18. Am I doing it right?
  19. Query Format
  20. Example of a hot guy: Edward Cullen [SPOILERS]
  21. How Do You Handle The Sex?
  22. How do we know it's any good?
  23. Similar Sounding Names in Stories
  24. 2 POV's- Chapter Question.
  25. How far can we go?
  26. Making up swear words?
  27. Using foreign languages in a fantasy world
  28. What do you think of starting over?
  29. Oh, blast. Change a character's name?
  30. Micro-Tension?
  31. Writing above your age
  32. What kind of fantasy to write?
  33. Stream of Consciousness
  34. I'm a bonehead.
  35. Questions or Plot Flaws?
  36. Is it cliche?
  37. What Book Did You Wish You Wrote
  38. Hi all, asking for some input!
  39. Disagreeing with your agent
  40. How much detail in first chapter?
  41. Need ideas....
  42. "You never told me that...and I'm your damn creator!"
  43. redefining chapters
  44. Music to listen to while writing...
  45. My plot exploded.
  46. Best Character Intros
  47. First Refusal
  48. Take as much time as you need?
  49. Ideal word count
  50. Question about handling Backstory
  51. Question for those working without outlines
  52. &*#! How was I supposed to predict Paranormal Fiction would be a "crowded category?"
  53. Oof. Someone else got there first...
  54. How Close Have You Come
  55. Does anyone just "ride the momentum"?
  56. Introducing new love.
  57. Best Selling Fiction
  58. How to show, and in doing so, tell
  59. Novel's time frame
  60. Scenes involving four characters
  61. Hit the wall
  62. Any online serial novelists?
  63. For those who outline, what is your method?
  64. what do i do when i get to busy
  65. Abilities all Around! Or Not?
  66. Ordinary or Exraordinary
  67. Stuuuccckkkk! argh
  68. when characters stand there scratching their heads
  69. Do you make yourself mad?!?!
  70. How would you react?
  71. Writing Out of Order?
  72. Word count after first write
  73. Help! Need Info RE British Interracial Marriages Between White Males & Black Females.
  74. Depicting the Edges
  75. use of violence
  76. To write it or not to write it
  77. Take-back Endings
  78. note to the regs
  79. Angst with out being angsty
  80. Scenes that serve the author.
  81. Best way to find faith?
  82. 10,000 words in, and I just fell in love with my MC
  83. Should I stick to one genre?
  84. characters based on real people
  85. Scraping current MS
  86. Writing new stuff in between edits
  87. I've been absent awhile
  88. MC as an antagonist?
  89. An unhappy ending
  90. Novice needing input please.
  91. Need input on chapters
  92. Missing my middle and end
  93. how do i set up the love scene
  94. Laurie Halse Anderson's novel "Wintergirls" will trigger anorexia?
  95. Cover letter for revision sent to my agent?
  96. Gimmicks that work... or don't
  97. Do you hear the words before you type them?
  98. Naked Scenes
  99. Curse or gift? (Alliterations)
  100. Recent picaresque-type novels?
  101. Modern Readers
  102. Is it cheap to hide a twist from the reader?
  103. I missing a very important part to my book
  104. Stealing from your own life...
  105. Anyone use plot generators?
  106. Writing below your age (with a nod to Shanna Noelle's 'Above Your Age' thread)
  107. Foreign Words
  108. starting over
  109. Name four authors that impacted your writing, and how they helped you.
  110. Elves, Dwarves, Orcs and Such Races
  111. How to Introduce Characters
  112. Killing off a character
  113. When You Know You've Messed Up
  114. I have a friend who has an agent...
  115. Does anyone else HATE writing a synopsis?
  116. what makes an ending?
  117. What do I write while waiting for 1st novel to sell?
  118. Post Moved
  119. Too much description?
  120. Full Trilogy Steam Ahead. x.x
  121. Tinkering with Flashbacks and Thoughts
  122. Pre-censoring a first draft? What's that mean?
  123. The power of semantics
  124. Not enough description...
  125. Writing novels based on soap operas. What do you think?
  126. I'm writing my first real novel, which will be a series, and I need some ideas on it
  127. Leaving Well Enough Alone?
  128. Those four writers that you just love to read...
  129. Where does genius come from?
  130. Eureka!
  131. Direct me to the Purple People Eater!!
  132. Stats/Responses to my Query (need advice)
  133. First time amateur looking for some advice
  134. Tense peril (er, POV-related, that is)
  135. BETA Readers
  136. Pausing writing
  137. Advice on inclusion of backstory
  138. Holding the Reader's Hand
  139. Is this too comedic for a dark space opera?
  140. Cutting a chapter
  141. Switching from first to third person .....
  142. Verbosity - Wave of the Future?
  143. Submitting Manuscripts to Agents
  144. 5k too ambitious for an opening chapter?
  145. Character quirks
  146. An Odd Thought About Backstory
  147. Letting the reader figure out the backstory
  148. Name four authors who impaired your writing, and why
  149. Motivation - two sides of the coin
  150. How do I get rid of this dark feeling from my writing?
  151. What's a filler?
  152. Is it true that not everyone can create interesting characters?
  153. Geographical accuracy--how important is it?
  154. What's an Inner Editor?
  155. Anyone Else Experienced This?
  156. how do you motivate yourself to write?
  157. How do you stick with an idea and deal with others?
  158. Opportunities for a Christian adventure novel
  159. Why is it not okay to post first drafts in SYW?
  160. take two
  161. About to query, absolutely terrified
  162. How do you describe people?
  163. Female authors describing clothes and male authors describing cars
  164. Help with Query letter please!!!
  165. Insomnia
  166. First versus Third Person
  167. First line of first chapter: Dialogue? Description?
  168. Settings
  169. Second person
  170. Words you hate and love. Does it fit the Genre?
  171. One-Pass Revision
  172. I'm one chapter short from finishing my novel
  173. Your cast of characters
  174. Conferences (not sure where to post this Q)
  175. Narrator's Introduction In An Epistolary Novel -- Prologue? or Scene One?
  176. Beginnings- Blast you!
  177. Writing quirks/bad habits
  178. Need Help with Scents Stupidity
  179. Starting With Dialogue
  180. What is narrative-driven fiction?
  181. Wow...I finally want to write again!
  182. It was a good day for writing
  183. Moving Forward, Your Process?
  184. What do you do with a 800 word chapter?
  185. How long does it take you to evolve your plot/characters?
  186. Comments that remind you
  187. What would be a good reason of why most authors switch POV?
  188. Anyone else do this...?
  189. Hold Me Accountable - Editing Weekend
  190. Does a novel written as a private blog mean it's already published?
  191. Making the Reader Care about the Physical
  192. Genre Question
  193. Am I a bad person?
  194. Edit the Edit Monster
  195. Java June WriteMo
  196. Author/Reader Psychology. When Author feels emotion, the reader feels the same.
  197. The Unfixable Problem
  198. Clueless Character=Clueless Reader?
  199. How not to write?
  200. Okay I'm using your "write crap" mantra...
  201. Free Writing Spreadsheet
  202. "I" phobia?
  203. Difference between Editing and Revising.
  204. What do readers really want out of 1st Person?
  205. Illustrations in novels
  206. What Genre Editors Want
  207. Is this just me or is it a motivational WTF!?!
  208. Story trumps all . . . why? What about the bad writing?
  209. Have you ever encountered a MAJOR mistake in a novel?
  210. Time
  211. EMERGENCY SUBMISSION QUESTION!
  212. When do you take a step back from your WIP?
  213. Have you ever finished a novel outline or first draft...
  214. My 1st person POV needs more than one POV
  215. Cliches used for good, not evil
  216. music appearing in novels?
  217. Writing cultures other than your own...
  218. What makes up a great story?
  219. ROCAMORA promotional video
  220. Where Have The Published Novel Stats Gone?
  221. working in character descriptions...
  222. A bit funny but a self esteem boost
  223. Dreams of you WIP
  224. Marketing for a book proposal
  225. Outlines - advice please.
  226. The Art and Science of Flashbacks. What Are Your Thoughts?
  227. When this is all a character ever does....
  228. Bad writing as a "stylistic device"?
  229. Writing something out and then realizing you needed it
  230. My question about Flashbacks
  231. The right introduction.....
  232. Just How Far CAN I Go In Depicting A Rape Event In A Literary Novel? And how often?
  233. Interesting discussion on agents
  234. How should I use this information (if at all)?
  235. Question about addressing genre in a query letter (Is it okay to say this?)
  236. Rounding up a query wordcount
  237. Nathan Bransford's Writing Advice Database
  238. How long is a long day?
  239. Animal/child violence
  240. Snowflake Method Excersise
  241. Self Publishing Second Best.
  242. Do You Write All the Stories of Your World?
  243. Dual Queries
  244. Age's Role
  245. Opinions on was/were/it/had/there/that
  246. Genre Question
  247. Music while writing??
  248. Are certain character names over used in fiction?
  249. Adive on Opening POV
  250. Torn Between Two Novels