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  1. Most used cliches that should be avoided while writing?
  2. Discomfort
  3. So is this a good thing?
  4. Stalked by my characters....
  5. Share your Plotholes!
  6. Harry Potter and book length (not what you think)
  7. What is your favorite 'aspect' of your novel?
  8. Celebrating milestones
  9. How trendy are you?
  10. Once and for all...
  11. Describe a place in your novel - without being there
  12. Novel opening...
  13. What ANNOYS you most in...
  14. What weird stuff did you research for your novel?
  15. Happy Thanksgiving
  16. What's so bad about the opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"?
  17. Question about having two MC's and two separate POV's
  18. Break through moments, have any?
  19. What to do with the giant on your laptop (or when a novel can't get shorter)
  20. Repent! Repent! The end is nigh!
  21. Is it important to read nonfiction?
  22. Breaking the block with questions
  23. Falling in hate with your WIP
  24. Is it worth paying a literary consultancy to appraise your work?
  25. Character description (or lack of): A question
  26. 2010 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market is out!
  27. Writing about things you have no idea about!?
  28. NaNoWriMo
  29. 2010 Goals
  30. The Money Flow
  31. Beginning Sentence fragment....wrong?
  32. Old school writing... good idea?
  33. How long before you found an agent?
  34. A question on the snowflake method
  35. How to Edit a Finished First Draft
  36. Querying a NaNo?
  37. Dialog books using Golden Age Hollywood examples?
  38. Omniscient Third Person?
  39. Help me describe a truck
  40. Another attack on novels?
  41. Anyone else have this problem? Moving, losing your "flow"?
  42. Mainstream or Literary?
  43. Annoying Style of Sentence Construction?
  44. Poetic first person?
  45. Share your tips on how to write descriptions
  46. What Makes it Adult?
  47. Trouble with penetration
  48. Selling your novels on Amazon is selling your novels in Treblinka...
  49. "I'm the next big novelist!" Am I?
  50. general limit for bringing in the antagonist?
  51. Pointless dialogue versus "telling"
  52. Editing Help, Need to See Red
  53. A Nice Hypothetical Problem to Have?
  54. Inner thoughts/feelings
  55. Novels are dying - again!
  56. 2P Narration
  57. How long does the publishing process take?
  58. Writing v Speaking
  59. Jeffrey Archer gets £18 MILLION in advance
  60. Pitching novels in different genres
  61. What the heck is a C.V?
  62. How do you know when you're ready to query?
  63. What's the shortest time it's ever taken you to write a novel?
  64. Too much action?
  65. Would This Work... ?
  66. Trunk novel, nth revisit
  67. A WIP in distress
  68. -- Booksellers don't want to be in the bookbusiness, says agent
  69. Tell me about Voice. Its importance. How do you use it? Examples?
  70. Two storylines, one book. Two audiences?
  71. A question about writing implements?
  72. It never ends well....
  73. Book Advances?
  74. Trunk It?
  75. Overall Plot Advice
  76. Examples of flashback scenes from the POV of a dead character?
  77. Cover Art?
  78. How do you recognise writing ability?
  79. Beating Sophmore Slump
  80. Can I still keep my book third person limited?
  81. One document or several?
  82. Anyone writing in their non-native language?
  83. Anyone using a Pen Name/Pseudonym
  84. Creative Juices?
  85. Rewriting the first draft
  86. Short Story vs Novel
  87. Never Use Italics with Dialogue?
  88. Ugh. Amateur.
  89. Problems defining genre
  90. Awareness of Stupidity When Writing a Novel
  91. Author's Gender and POV Character's Gender
  92. Breaking up POV Help...
  93. Foils....
  94. Question about writing about real people....
  95. Hm. How do you suppose you can....
  96. How many people here are actually published...
  97. Will I regret it if I leave it to fix later?
  98. I just wrote the hardest thing I've ever written in my entire life
  99. Getting Published
  100. Writing style or voice changing?
  101. Hotmail messed with my query format, what do I do?
  102. Feeling Really Frustrated!
  103. About this word count business...
  104. Question for voracious readers, regarding novels about people…
  105. Question about the misuse of dialogue
  106. do you guys usually just use Word for writing manuscripts?
  107. How many words to a page in general?
  108. Do agents want to see the prologue?
  109. Synopsis Hell Anyone?
  110. Can I write a chapter, then have the character forget it?
  111. Publishers
  112. Novels in which every character is the same gender?
  113. Examples of Multiple 1st person pov?
  114. Rewrites
  115. Anyone else uncomfortable?
  116. Taking a small event/goal/action and fleshing it out?
  117. An uncle jim exercise: What does your last chapter from your MS look like?
  118. Would this be a form of plagiarism?
  119. first or third?
  120. Hiring an editor, good idea or not?
  121. Spinoff: 1st Person POV/multiple narrators
  122. World-Building in First Person
  123. Short Stories and Novels
  124. World's Worst Writer: We Wuv Wu
  125. Signing a Contract
  126. Thoughts on an Angel as narrator?
  127. Is there a genre for literary horror?
  128. Your Christmas Novel Wish List...
  129. Character names ruined by association
  130. Crap Poop! What to do? Almost finished with novel...
  131. Long Sentences vs. Short and Medium Sentence length
  132. What do your MC's do when you're not writing about them?
  133. Plot holes
  134. Don't know what to call my characters!
  135. Rewriting Old Books (you wish)
  136. Plotless Characters
  137. Creating new medical procedures
  138. Illustrations in-book
  139. Not even BIG NAME authors are selling well now...
  140. POV - fixed lens or zoom lens?
  141. When Supporting Characters Demand Revenge
  142. Is this cheating?
  143. Oh no! They want WHAT from me?
  144. So, how many novels have you trunked exactly?
  145. YA and First person
  146. Revision Phobia - Anyone Else
  147. what to call a character before bringing in their name?
  148. How do you know your story is a series?
  149. What NOT to do in publicising your fresh minted novel...
  150. Changing from 3rd person to 2nd person
  151. My death scene isn't sad enough...?
  152. Is Outlining Always This Hard?
  153. Writing...phobia?
  154. Writing characters reactions without navel gazing
  155. novels in general
  156. Jane Friedman: "A Big Mistake to Avoid in Story Openings" (A Case ofTell, don't Show)
  157. Spin off thread to writing characters' reactions
  158. Some best-selling authors no longer sell
  159. When an agent wants 50 pages...
  160. What writing "rules" have you gleefully broken?
  161. Vocabulary used
  162. Who writes in third omniscient?
  163. The fall of big name authors
  164. How do you write a bio when you haven't done anything?
  165. Writing a novel and throwing every single idea in
  166. Unsympathetic mc's
  167. Writer's Block: What do you do?
  168. A couple more questions about submissions...
  169. Market for thrillers
  170. Revise and edit while writing?
  171. Problems publishing mainstream novels?
  172. New plot?
  173. Changing character's name - should I tell the publisher?
  174. Illustrations in novels
  175. What are the odds of landing an agent?
  176. Multiple Pennames
  177. I am so ready for my first rejection letter
  178. Simultaneous submissions
  179. Going from self-publishing to standard publishing
  180. Choosing an Editor
  181. Personal website before I'm published? I need some opinions.
  182. Agent and/or Publisher In A Different Country
  183. Recent Experiences With Novel Length...
  184. Rewrite... experience?
  185. new to novel query
  186. Let's talk debut novel length for a moment
  187. How long did it take?
  188. Taking the Plunge
  189. "copyrighted" ideas or characters
  190. RE: The format thread "stickied" above
  191. Another unnecessary character vanishes...
  192. 3rd person ltd descriptions
  193. Revision Based on Feedback?
  194. Start Thinking of Questions
  195. Epistolary Novel
  196. new name or old name?
  197. Misplaced Work?
  198. To all those who have gone before...
  199. Derailed from BIC
  200. sample chapters in query
  201. Anyone else ever get this feeling?
  202. $23.95?
  203. Grrr
  204. How to tell if a polyamorous relationship is done responsibly?
  205. Would you write a dance sequence?
  206. Repeatedly calling someone by name or using "he/she"
  207. Cross Genre Novels
  208. "write what you want to read" actuallly a bad idea?
  209. Need to find motivation for my novel!
  210. Selling a novel for serialisation
  211. Lost a bit of confidence
  212. "Ums" in dialogue.
  213. So, how do you entertain yourself while writing that novel?
  214. Describing Skin Color
  215. A good agent contract.
  216. I've gone and done one of those silly things I'd mock if someone else did.
  217. POV Change at the end of a book
  218. advice on sending e-queries and attachments to agents
  219. POV issues?
  220. Revealing backstory
  221. When does one become a Novelist?
  222. Question Re: Trademark (TM)
  223. Your novel writing rituals
  224. Can a Virtuous Character Be Interesting?
  225. Finding motivation?
  226. When characters do the unthinkable
  227. What inspired you to write novels?
  228. Writing New Material
  229. Novel Structure
  230. When Betas Go Bad
  231. Deciding on Main Character
  232. Fear in writing
  233. When turning a book into a series ...
  234. Focusing on the Story at Hand
  235. WIP Focus
  236. Hurting yourself for that perfect scene . . .
  237. This makes me feel less neurotic.
  238. What do you do, when there are two good starting points for your book?
  239. Whom to believe?
  240. Critique Circle #1 (North American-centric; 9PM Central; Last Monday of the Month)
  241. Just so there's no confusion
  242. How Long Does It Take You...
  243. Can someone please clarify for me . . .
  244. Question of how to end the middle Act
  245. How many novels are you writing?
  246. How often is Rising Tension resolved?
  247. On Flashbacks.
  248. Gah. The things I suffer for my art...
  249. Which comes first, the agent or the publisher?
  250. Critique Circle #2 [Europe Chapter] - last chat was Mon 1st March, 3pm GMT