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- The standard to which you aspire
- What's Your Opening Line?
- Using a real person in an historical novel, and appropriate disclaimer
- Triple Dog Dare you!
- Starting sentences with 'and', 'but', 'or' and 'so'
- Adverbicide
- First Person Gender Bender
- A question for Editors and "Uncle Jim"
- Writing better popular fiction
- Prologues
- Advice...
- "Dear... Agent?"
- Re-querying
- Confusing, She Wrote
- Your Characters
- Story boarding
- reporters in the early 1900s
- Print on Demand
- Is there a thing as too much description?
- Holy Copyright Batman! - Google's Scanning!
- Critique my query please
- Bookman
- More Proof: Another First Book Deal
- Series or Standalone?
- Favorite line???
- You're so vain...
- Chic Lit / Women's Fiction
- "Gah!" "What Now, Nick?"
- Prologues
- censorship and DaVinci Code
- Novels and Controversial Topics
- Use Republican and Democrat Party
- Age Differences in novels
- question
- Very Serious Question
- Best published novel you've ever read?
- Are you stuck for ideas???
- Cliches
- Writers Conference Help
- The Hard Wait
- Wait time between finishing a story and editing?
- Newcomer...
- Bands and song titles
- Middle Book Blues?
- Response time to requested query?
- How fast do you write? In words per hour?
- is more options a good thing?
- Killed off a character everybody hates
- How Fast?
- Stella
- Themes
- Index card plotting
- Exciting!
- Blast You, Mr. Block!
- Time Passes
- Slow Starts - What's critical in the 1st 3 Chapters?
- discussion about plot??? Care to take a gander???
- Advice about reviews...
- Ending chapters on suspense note?
- Words per page (MS Word) Vs. Standard Sized Paperback Novel
- Does my ethnicity really matters when writing a science fiction/fantasy?
- Capturing Accents in Dialogue
- What does an ARC usually look like?
- Your honest opinion, please...
- Dreams for stories?
- Gone (oh the pain)
- What book (or books) are you currently reading?
- Best way to print a draft for editing
- Writing and inspiration
- Writing Bylines...
- How much training needs to be shown?
- Life, Inc.
- Where to find sales no. for proposal
- How important are Amazon reviews...
- Two at a Time
- Your Muse
- Chuck's Workshop
- Bad writing
- Story concept
- self-publishing vs traditional publishing
- List of Great or Exotic Words
- Couple of Oddball Formatting Questions
- Using Emotion in Writing
- Changing the POV Character in a Rewrite
- Do Your Characters Have Tired Legs?
- Books from a Vending machine!
- Overall story verses the first 3 chapters.
- Bret Easton Ellis on Lunar Park
- How do you pick the setting for your novel?
- Plot reversal changes tone of book
- Character behaviour
- Agents
- self-publishing, main feature
- Dialogue in Brackets
- Need your opinions
- When Publishers Get Weird
- contract in my hands!
- Turning Novel Into a Script?
- Chapter Length
- I need direction for my writing.
- Macmillan: a chance for new authors?
- Do you ever feel like you are waiting for Parole?
- A song / How to write it into your novel
- Self-Publishing Companies??
- What genre is this?
- Something familiar here...
- A question about query letters
- Adult or YA?
- Songs for Certain Settings
- DIALOGUE: Punctuation & Conventions
- Request for Partial
- need advice - genre
- Advice for showing more bondage between siblings?
- Sensitive issue question regarding sexes
- Confusing Genre question. I have a hybrid!
- Ellipses question...
- A real specific question
- question about the olden days...
- 1st Person Vs. 3rd Person
- Synopsis Hell
- Hey everybody...
- Fantasy and YA questions.
- Tag Lines
- Manuscript Pagination question
- What happened to readers who like to read?
- Feedback
- Writer's block on queries and synopses
- OK, what do I do now?
- 'Smooth Infusion'
- Chicklit--what is it?
- Denver area writers
- Is Writer's Digest worth it any more?
- Books for young readers???
- What is a Scene?
- Can't concentrate!
- Truth V Fiction: Cheesy Plots Galore!
- Readers
- Mailing a query and synopsis
- Should I include indexes and maps?
- Novels these days..
- Novelists who published first work after 40
- What makes a good book in your opinion?
- Novel climax help!
- Character goals and story questions
- question about a problem I'm having
- Lulu Self-publishing
- Help!
- Genre question
- Keeping it in perspective.
- What are some good self-editing books?
- Help needed on finding the right agent/agency
- Query letter - positive response rate
- Setting the Stage
- Virgin Author (at the age of 67)
- What do you do for a living?
- Playing it safe...
- So hard to find a mentor!!!
- Salvageable Chaos?
- Need help finding reliable mentor!
- Writing Rituals, Do You Do anything special?
- What do you think about Blogit.com?
- Question about Summaries
- Does anybody know where I can get a good editor under 1000 dollars?
- Documenting my Novel writing...
- "Said," "Asked," and Other Dialogue Terms
- Quick Question - Dialogue & Agent
- Do I really need an agent?
- Rhetorical Grammar
- Proposing a Series question
- Your writing strength. Are you consistent?
- How many pages is "too many" for a chapter?
- Importance of theme.
- From Book to Movie?
- Using Journal Entries as Narrative
- I hate "that"...and other grammar problems!
- Writerisms and other Sins
- Title of your Novel?
- Should I be afraid of my own antagonist?
- Amazon's Book Surge Publishing Services
- A fan letter!
- Few dialogue questions
- Character Voices
- Marketing your work
- Detatched or Unhinged?
- the first ever AbsoluteWrite Purple Prose Contest
- Question about Queries -- the 10 minute pitch.
- Do you have someone preview your book?
- A New Part in a Book
- Legal Question in character names
- Where do I find a beta reader?
- you don't have to be a screenwriter to know what you like.
- How many submissions?
- The true Global Novel
- Help me out of Publishamerica contract
- Discouraged Writer
- What Comes after the Postmodern Novel?
- Agent or Publishing House?
- Good vs. Bad First Draft and Throwing the Pen Across the Room
- A Good Reminder!
- Word Counts and Sweet Spots
- Timeframe for editing a MS
- Sex In Science Fiction
- Marketing Plan for Fiction Novel?
- Backup Strategies
- Business Cards at Writers Convention?
- Okay, bare with me...now, about self publishing...
- What are the odds? Really?
- How many here working on a YA series?
- Query Letter help
- Being intimidated by other novelists...
- WE NEED YOUR VOTES!
- character biographies/understanding my anti-hero
- books on writing dialog
- Writer's Digest Magazine
- Chapter length
- Historical Fiction
- Time span question
- Writing through the stresses of life
- Post Secret
- Average number of ms submissions before acceptance?
- question about 1st person narration
- E-query vs mail
- The Dreaded Synopsis.
- Strategy: agent or editor?
- If an author decided to Self Publish...
- Percolation Time
- eBook to promote series?
- poor agents
- 50,000 word novel?
- They stole my idea!
- Rewrites and edits
- PR opportunity for published authors
- Musings
- Lessons from "Lost" -- Some Spoilers
- Legal question
- Jacket blurbs
- Is there a good way for me to do this?
- Listening to books?
- Ack! Demonic Lengthliness!
- Atlanta Nights - slush really this bad?
- Cover letter to go with Novel
- Character ages
- The next novel ..... but how?
- How do you get an agent to tell you if you suck?
- The next novel...different problem.
- Back up your work, now
- What do people write?
- Wanted to introduce myself...
- Why do people write?
- flawed, undecisive characters
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