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  1. Things that will date your work?
  2. What's an editor anyway?
  3. So, I have this friend...
  4. Fantasy Market: Is it really that hard to get into?
  5. Reader Expectations v. Character Motivations
  6. Writing
  7. Tense
  8. How does your writing sound?
  9. Indistinct gender
  10. Novels, messge to Cathy C and friends
  11. What do you think is the most popular genre out today?
  12. What are some words that you prefer...
  13. Fear that my work is too slight/melodramatic?
  14. A question concerning chapters...
  15. Timeline
  16. Question about writing when the story takes place over a long time
  17. Writing in Dialect
  18. Am I running too great a risk?
  19. Write what you know...Or write what you love....
  20. Back story in a series
  21. How much love is too much?
  22. Where's it all going?
  23. What should be the 10 commandments of writing?
  24. Verbal Titles for Novels / In Quotation Marks?
  25. Great Query Letters:
  26. Quick question?
  27. Argh!!! Making a big change...
  28. I'm *dreaming* about query letters.
  29. 2500 words a day
  30. America hasn't won a Nobel Prize in Lit since 1993
  31. Getting Over Writer's Doubt.
  32. The writing, agent, publishing process question
  33. How do you remember 1999?
  34. How do YOU name your novel?
  35. Is a Deus Ex Machina such even if its known beforehand?
  36. Does anybody know of any particular agencies looking for something like:
  37. Opening with a quote--query question
  38. Blurbs or Queries: How far into the novel do you write about in one of these?
  39. I feel like the plague a bit - diarist.
  40. Na Na Na Boo Boo: Tales From the Playground
  41. death gate cycle series
  42. Is imitation really the best form of flattery?
  43. Offbeat/quirky...New genre type
  44. "Frame" stories
  45. Are you a snippet writer?
  46. Future Novels?
  47. Problem with tenses in my novel
  48. The importance of those first few hundred words or so, i.e. The Opening
  49. What genre is the most popular?
  50. Sharing work online
  51. Turning Screeplay into Novelette or Novella
  52. Do you have "too many" ideas?
  53. Author bashing is nothing new
  54. Not another thread on age...kinda.
  55. Should I Trunk It?
  56. When the plot is too close to home?
  57. Read a lot and write a lot?
  58. Famous Writer's Advice..
  59. So after writing and trunking 40K words and then starting a new...
  60. The Noble Sodomite
  61. Most memorable character in a novel
  62. POV Rules and descriptions
  63. Published authors?
  64. I need some advice about flashbacks.
  65. Quotes / readings about betrayal or guilt?
  66. Can a 3rd omni narrator have a voice??
  67. First person POV
  68. difference between novel and book
  69. Using stories in the news as subplot, fictionalized?
  70. Resubmitting to an Agent
  71. Parentheses
  72. Writing Novels in MS Word
  73. Transition, or: How to Make the Voices Shut Up
  74. Inciting Incidents with Multiple POV characters
  75. Explanations vs. Infodumps
  76. Contest at Nathan Bransford's blog
  77. Is one time of year better to query than another?
  78. When do you follow up?
  79. Purple prose
  80. Keeping motivated?
  81. Kaitie's awesomely in jest opening paragraph contest.
  82. How much conversation is too much?
  83. Have you ever?
  84. How to Alienate your own Family by Writing about Them.
  85. Appeasing Islam
  86. Will the reader know your character doesn't know a fact vs author's knowledge?
  87. Dragging out scenes
  88. Debut Author if Self Pubbed Under Pseudo?
  89. What is it going to take?!?
  90. Do I have the right???
  91. Stealing ideas from forums.
  92. What "rights" do publishers try to take that you should keep?
  93. Kidlit Contest
  94. Conflict so soon?
  95. Multitasking Stories
  96. Literary Agents who accept Historic Fiction
  97. Still puzzled about font size
  98. Partial requests
  99. How long did it take you to get your book deal?
  100. How do you go about organising your later drafts?
  101. Essential 3rd Act Twists
  102. How long did it take you to write your first novel?
  103. Translating
  104. Telling vs Showing when dealing with passage of time...
  105. Planning out scenes
  106. Untrunking
  107. Re-writing vs. editing
  108. How many books do you read a year?
  109. How many words have you written in the last year?
  110. Who Are You Going To Dedicate Your Book To?
  111. Looking for a novella collection. Recommendations?
  112. Alternate Endings for a Novel?
  113. How'd You Come Up With Your Title?
  114. 3rd person limited voice
  115. Noooo! Someone else got there before me! :( And other such woes.
  116. Screenwriter AND novelist?
  117. Getting your manuscript copyright?
  118. What's Your Take on Pen Names
  119. in your opinion, what makes a great central conflict/antagonist?
  120. Favorite book?
  121. Using song titles for stories
  122. Novel in a Month
  123. Q: on Novel Title and its effect in Query
  124. Do You Give Authors a Second Chance After a Bad First Impression?
  125. Neat little package
  126. Paragraph ADD?
  127. Synopis with Multiple story lines
  128. Cover Art to Press
  129. A few questions
  130. The Never Ending Novel
  131. Do You Know Which Characters Live and Die From the Beginning?
  132. Authonomy is not for naught
  133. Who are the voiciest of the voice-y authors?
  134. Creating a religion
  135. Prologue
  136. News in novels
  137. POV in early chapters
  138. First 50 pages
  139. Published novelists: How long did it take you to write your published book(s)?
  140. Tell me your experience: Once you landed an Agent, how long till you inked a deal?
  141. Random question about fulls/offers
  142. Someone to read my book
  143. Character crush--got one?
  144. Memorable Villains
  145. Writer's Overload
  146. When your MC isn't your MC
  147. Who has read your book?
  148. In need of advice
  149. Bridging Conflict
  150. Your mindset for the first draft
  151. How did you choose your plot?
  152. An afterlife for dead words.
  153. A Problem of Perspective
  154. Websites
  155. YA or just novel?
  156. Are you self-motivated?
  157. No Agent Website...what to do??
  158. how much should I outline before I start writing my first draft?
  159. Can someone give some pointers?
  160. Critters.org RFDR
  161. What are the most important classics?
  162. What novels have you reread?
  163. What are your daily writing goals?
  164. Preface v. Prologue???
  165. Expanding a novel
  166. The plateau of Make it or Break it
  167. Self-censorship.
  168. Dodging A Scene.
  169. Your MC's Facebook Page
  170. Synopses and Multiple Perspectives--What to do?
  171. Don't you just hate it when...
  172. How Do You Keep things Organized?
  173. The Art of Killing Somebody
  174. Do you imagine music...
  175. More POV thoughts
  176. quoting from movies, songs, poems, etc.
  177. Does your MC have a catch phrase?
  178. reference books for villains
  179. Author's Gender
  180. Theme? Plot? Hook? What is this?
  181. Is anyone else shallow, like me?
  182. Beginning, Middle or End?
  183. Scene Transitions
  184. Very Short Synopsis
  185. Comparing WIP love...
  186. Method Writing?
  187. Real people, places and the law
  188. It took fifty pages to get into it, but...
  189. What's your cut-off point for chapter length?
  190. Similarities to your work and something already out there x 2
  191. Yeah, another question about head jumping.
  192. Did anyone get a book deal overseas before selling in US / UK?
  193. financial questions for a scene in my novel
  194. I need help
  195. Editors
  196. Canadian or American Writing
  197. There's still hope for those of you who want to include illustrations!
  198. To imply or not to imply
  199. Videos: Jonny Geller on finding and agent, fame and fortune
  200. Feeling lost..
  201. How did you name your characters?
  202. Is this good news or bad news?
  203. Hallucinations
  204. Trunk Novels: Back Into the Trunk?
  205. Writing about Difficult Things
  206. How Do You Like Villain(s)?
  207. Does anyone else feel like their whole existence rests on
  208. At what point do you (personally) consider yourself a writer?
  209. Polishing your manuscript -
  210. How much do you consider categories when you write?
  211. Does your opinion of your writing change? One day it's good, then next day it's bad.
  212. I'm torturing children. Yay?
  213. Does it ever frustrate you to have to keep your mouth shut?
  214. Quote plagiarism
  215. Which Would You Read?
  216. Words of encouragement
  217. Give Short "Showing not Telling" examples.
  218. Novel too short??
  219. Using an existing title for a novel
  220. How many layers???
  221. Section breaks and scene breaks
  222. 3rd person ltd head hopping
  223. Would you use 2 main POVs in a 80k novel?
  224. How do you 'reveal' your plot surprises?
  225. killing small children
  226. Okay...Here's the deal:
  227. A few questions about publishing
  228. Probably stupid question--Query response
  229. To Title A Novel...
  230. what to work on next?
  231. Editor-Writer Relationships
  232. Civil War novel too cliche? (even if its historical fantasy?)
  233. 2 stories at once yah or nah?
  234. Editing Tips
  235. How much is too much?
  236. W00t!
  237. A question of genre
  238. the writer's idea of her story vs what the readers see
  239. Is character development really necessary?
  240. Too copycat? Also, would this be too much for YA?
  241. Good source for the number of copies a book sold?
  242. The end of the novel?
  243. Sex in novels
  244. Just out of curiosity has anyone ever done this...before
  245. Dialects in Novels?
  246. How do you decide if a scene should be cut?
  247. Advice on overall story construction
  248. Does Anyone Ever Plan 4 Book Series?
  249. Romantic love vs. platonic love in a novel
  250. Italics in manuscripts