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  1. OPENINGS: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
  2. What Tops Your List?
  3. Anyone else get stuck...
  4. Bulwer-Lytton Contest Results
  5. How much time do you think it takes to gain noticeable popularity?
  6. "20 Surefire Tips to Get Your Book Published"
  7. Writing a Blockbuster - The Formula!
  8. How books are made
  9. OPENINGS: More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
  10. Planning a novel-Follow any method?
  11. Article re Article about Writing Advice
  12. Openings: GRR Martin's A Game of Thrones
  13. Revising Your Novel
  14. Will big name novelists defect more?
  15. Rewrites, Critiques & Substantive Editing
  16. Is this considered a 'novel'?
  17. Can a good novel loiter?
  18. Outlining
  19. Etiquette Question about Submissions
  20. The Interlude
  21. Is the Comic (Humor) Novel Dead?
  22. Crisis of POV.
  23. Shifting Gears
  24. Writing Death
  25. Countries = Villains?
  26. Outlines For Publishers
  27. Tense
  28. Addicted to reading?
  29. Should I Take Revenge?
  30. Idiotic Spelling Errors :D
  31. Use of person(s), living or dead. Fictionland.
  32. Fictionalize a real place?
  33. Book Recommendations
  34. Writing software you like.
  35. Format Q - location and time headings
  36. Multiple Book Deals
  37. A Story Within A Story
  38. Would this Work?
  39. A critical look at novel openings
  40. Killing Your Darlings
  41. Need help - Trends?
  42. Not reading what doesn't interest you - and the purpose of the blurb
  43. Having trouble getting past the planning stages...
  44. What he didn't yet know . . .
  45. If you're a U.S citizen with a foreign publisher how do taxes work?
  46. writing a war novel without having battles become repetitive?
  47. Too Complex?
  48. Time gaps between scenes
  49. Anyone Else Ever Experience This?
  50. normalcy?
  51. Directing the Plot away from Taboos
  52. A creativity fix.
  53. Novel Disaster!!!!
  54. The Sickness
  55. What (inside a book) will make you put down a book?
  56. Male Name for a Female Character. Good or Bad?
  57. I Hate Titles!
  58. Dream Sequence to Reveal Character
  59. General Help
  60. The SP, tt42, and whoever else feels like participating amocking thread
  61. 2 boys + 2 girls
  62. Third person limited POV for different characters
  63. Uh, just something in my eye...
  64. Question about (non) foreshadowing.
  65. What is the best way to save your work?
  66. Good hard-boiled dick novel
  67. What separates a Science Fiction Novel from Standard Fiction?
  68. Bad Novel = Bad Agent?
  69. Transcribing time
  70. From journalist to novelist
  71. the want to write VS the want to be read
  72. Not sure where to start my story
  73. Endings
  74. Fiction Series?
  75. What to do when your Beta's suggest a sequel?
  76. How long is too long for a Novel
  77. I do want it to be a series. So how do I write it?
  78. Having Issues With Research
  79. I Can't Write Endings!
  80. Question on different POV
  81. Editor or Agent
  82. Descriptions - how much is too much?
  83. Braeking Teh Rulez
  84. Writing and Parenting
  85. I finished my first novel...
  86. Are maps a dumb idea?
  87. I queried too early...what now?
  88. How Long Does It Usually Take You To Finish One Novel?
  89. Article on Writer-Editor Relationship
  90. Is it normal to become discouraged by a critique?
  91. Bouncing ideas off agent
  92. Writer's voice - the eleventh option
  93. Help with definitions
  94. Changing POV
  95. Am I the only one who freaks out over agents and getting published?
  96. Has a character ever surprised you while writing?
  97. Hardcover or Paperback?
  98. The problem with a future book
  99. Writing in multiple POV
  100. Slushpile Success
  101. To cut or not to cut?
  102. When does a novel become un-salvageable?
  103. Cliches
  104. Are there parts of your novel that you haven't put as much effort into as others?
  105. Prologues , yes or no
  106. Your Most Random Searches
  107. Describing skin tones and ethnicities...
  108. Line between YA and mainstream?
  109. Internet Novels (w/ video?)
  110. Motivation, Difficulty, and the Rashomon.
  111. Novel Survey Results
  112. A question to published AWers
  113. Tips on Rewrites?
  114. What Genre am I writing?
  115. Agencies and submission
  116. Loneliness and writing
  117. Hilarious and pretty sad...
  118. Traveling sequences, character development, and...
  119. Epic
  120. Question for published authors....
  121. Self-censorship
  122. Time Jumping, Does it Annoy You?
  123. Do the editors and agents want to know how it ends?
  124. Do I need to market?
  125. Differences between first and subsequent novels
  126. why did these agents say this?
  127. Influential Books....
  128. How's 2010 working out for you so far?
  129. What's The Best Book You've Ever Read?
  130. any tips on showing-not-telling and how not to rush while writing?
  131. Rules on Quoting
  132. Plagiarism vs Inspiration
  133. Published novelists: platform yes or no?
  134. Sending in Sample Pages to Agents
  135. The Dreaded Recap
  136. Does Voice Translate Well?
  137. need an opinion please!
  138. How good does your writing have to be to be publishable?
  139. Flashback tenses
  140. Kill em ,or write em out?
  141. Tricky question. Application of race in 1955.
  142. Quick opinion on Chapter word count
  143. Possible to have too much conflict?
  144. Stephen Leather's writing guide
  145. Question about re-querying same agent with different project?
  146. Opinion, please. Did I Do The Right Thing By...?
  147. Lyrics in a manuscript?
  148. inspiration.
  149. help (writers conference / overcoming nerves)
  150. I love it when the pieces fall into place.
  151. Proposal for a novel
  152. Time Issues
  153. revisions for one agent, what if another offers?
  154. Chapter arrangement - character setup
  155. Second Book Curse
  156. Argh. Staring at 200 pages, considering rewrite...
  157. Story arc problems
  158. Male vs. Female MCs
  159. Melding two novels together
  160. Feedback from partial rejection
  161. Synopsis logistics
  162. novel set in a small town--authenticity vs fiction
  163. Link to Jerome T. Burrows interview
  164. Need a password
  165. Do you write lineally?
  166. Believability
  167. Where are the Anecdotes?
  168. Writing cross-gender
  169. Do you go through withdrawal when you don't write?
  170. Larger-Than-Life Characters
  171. Threads removed
  172. Why Don't Writers Snap?
  173. Some help with my new novel?=)
  174. WHICH IS HARDER
  175. Preparing months ahead to make sure nothing will interrupt the new WIP??
  176. Were you prepared for your first book deal?
  177. novels with criminal underground?
  178. What is the best novel-writing software?
  179. CURIOUS
  180. Stupid mistakes you've made when querying and submitting
  181. Okay. Has novel writing software made the difference for anyone here?
  182. need help picking between two endings
  183. Submitting Book After Agent Passes
  184. My main character has had a sex change operation
  185. Bumping Off Redshirts
  186. Am I the only one whose novel comes to them in dialog?
  187. Am I the only weirdo out there that does this?
  188. Bumping off a Million Red Shirts
  189. The Significance of Insignificance
  190. The Epilogue
  191. Cold Open Intro
  192. Rogue Warrior & Indianpolis
  193. Agents want writers that are internet savvy
  194. If you believe human nature is fundamentally flawed...
  195. second novel blues--preoccupied with "significance"
  196. Wonderful Resource: Google Books
  197. Music
  198. The Great My-Debut-Book-Is-Out Freakout
  199. Do you always describe your MC?
  200. How do you consciously immerse yourself in your writing?
  201. Not being able to finish a novel
  202. Inspiration
  203. Writing in first person
  204. Make My Novel Longer
  205. Is it worth it? Why bother?
  206. What genre is this book?
  207. The Way To Write Novels. A Question.
  208. Writing a novel around all that silly "life" crap.
  209. Don't you just LOVE it when...
  210. Community which tracks newly published writing theory books?
  211. writing the main character as different ethnic group than self?
  212. how do you choose chapter breaks?
  213. POV for debut novel
  214. Breaking the rules
  215. The 200-250 words thread!
  216. Rewriting, reframing, and woe is me
  217. "Showing" emotions without being ridiculous
  218. Title Question
  219. Query VS Cover Letter
  220. Melodrama
  221. Good name for a super weapon and which super weapon idea do you prefer?
  222. Relocating your misplaced inspiration. How?
  223. 3rd person limited advice
  224. Just some overall career advice I suppose?
  225. Good exposition
  226. Advice on interior dialogue
  227. Query Queasy
  228. Your Opinion on Multiple Characters in First-Person...
  229. Keeping track, H-E-L-P !!!!!!!!!!
  230. scene transitions
  231. Top historian review kerfuffle leads to legal threats....
  232. First person concerns
  233. Voice concerns
  234. A where to start quandry...
  235. How THE RULES Came Into Being - A Fairy Tale
  236. Characters sounding the same
  237. Is anyone else as lackadaisical about names as me?
  238. Writing from two POVs
  239. Game Proposal
  240. Is a romance expected?
  241. Does This Sound Like A Good Idea?
  242. Posting work: Trouble with publication?
  243. quoting & artwork
  244. An Exercise in Voice
  245. writing on the fly - tips?
  246. Symbolism
  247. POV breakdown question
  248. Omniscient POV; the Pratchett way.
  249. Anyone up for a (civil) gender war?
  250. Homage?=)