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- Writer's traps...
- Conscience, schmonscience?
- Are people selling themselves short?
- Soundtracks
- recommendations for novels? Reading for inspiration to write
- Dumb Question
- Psychological advantage in showing POD book to publisher?
- What to do?
- Responce Times from agents/publishers
- What if this happens??
- Does anyone dictate their text?
- Target audience & writing style
- Pick the book cover you like best
- Please recommend some great contemporary literary thrillers!
- In The Zone
- What to include in first 50 pages?
- Writers conference
- Where can I post my 'synopsis' for your review?
- Where can I post my 'synopsis' for your review?
- Book Covers Showing Too Much
- Self-publishing or commercial publishing-Compare and Contrast
- Book Cover C - A compromise.
- Perception of a blind boy
- Can they reject me on dialogue alone?
- Adventure stories
- Can you use brand names?
- Casting Your Characters
- A question about prologues.
- Woohoo! A wonderful rejectiion!
- When to use real locations/address and when to fictionalize.
- Book Titles
- Yay! I've started my first novel! It's official!
- Real Experiences
- Question about discussing abortion in my novel
- Online writing courses
- What writing program do you use?
- Professional Advice
- Christian Romance Guidelines?
- Reader's Imagination
- Print runs
- Do Characters drive the plot or live in it?
- The GlobalBook project
- Do you sell a book or a career?
- Outlines to Literary Agents
- The story vs. the writing
- Multiple beginnings
- (Not drawing attention to the name -JG)
- New Title?
- vent: The Waiting Game
- Character Names - anyone ever hated what you chose?
- Weak Climaxes
- Proper Format
- The Way Your Characters Look...
- Something that's bugging me...
- The plusses and minuses of a writing convention
- Question about my novel
- A pre-query query
- Is a specific genre necessary?
- Starting a novel with dialogue
- Why do you write? (Apart from money)
- Would you read it?
- Question for more experienced writers...
- Would anyone read it??
- Creating a character based on someone you know...
- Writing Dialog
- Woe is me because of judge 3
- Toward a "general standard"?
- Genre/Setting Question.
- Help! I'm going to be on Radio!!!!
- First person
- Favorite Author Blogs
- The Stupid Question Thread
- Mr. ______ from the teeming city of ________
- Sites About Publishing
- This question has probably been asked before, but...
- Related Books?
- Book Signings?
- Pitch/synopsis Help!
- Letters to the Editor - publishing credits
- Who on the Boards is Published
- Question on Distibution and Sales.
- Creative Writing Programs
- Changing point of view for just a few paragraphs
- How do advances and royalites work?
- Specific Question About My Novel
- My bad guy sucks. Any advice?
- Historical Fiction anyone?
- Author Interviews on TV and Radio
- Home Stretch Blues?
- Novella, Novelette, Novel. What?
- Have an idea for my novel. What next?
- How close is close enough
- Synopsis format
- Calculating Word Count?
- Help! women's fiction
- Platform for Fiction?
- How long does it take you to write a novel?
- When to note the race of characters...
- Existential Dilemma?
- Recommendations for writers' groups or beta readers?
- My novel
- Creating a language
- Translation Rights?
- did you go/are going to school for writing?
- Exposition
- Tips on how to resist revision during a draft?
- Violence in my novel - perspective, please
- Outline Assistance
- Love Scenes?
- What is the agreed-upon margin width?
- PENITENTIARY PACIFIC!
- Interesting Read
- Scene Headings
- Writing "accents"..
- Maximum length of first novel
- How to minimize the "I" in first person
- Non-fiction clips helpful for fiction writers?
- Titling chapters
- On revising
- Where'd that come from?
- Novel in first person
- full manuscript request
- Writers: How do you develop your story? Formula or wing it?
- Question on writing styles
- 'Fun With Language' Thread
- Novel or memoir
- First Novel....or something like that
- Story Arc Question
- Parents of young children
- Copyrighting
- On Finding A Reader for a novel...
- Mentioning Existing Bodies/Organizations
- things that turn novel writers on
- query letters
- Another Query Question
- Switching narrator. Mid-chapter.
- Sending Tearsheets with Proposal
- Multipal books in query...
- Things that turn novel writers OFF...
- New Here
- HEY
- Newbie wanting to publish novel
- How Close Is Close Enough (Part II)
- A question about 'passive voice'
- Twin Talking Problem
- how to build intriguing characters
- Thanks to James D MacDOnald
- Referencing Brand Names, Designer Labels etc...
- Pro-crast-i-nation time, COME ON!
- Attention Published Authors
- Research Question--Rated PG13/R post
- Language translation
- Making characters move
- Agent's response time -- what's reasonable?
- Literary Writing II
- Stranger than fiction
- What are you thankful for?
- Dan Brown trial
- First-timer sales
- What's the strangest thing you've ever done for your novel?
- What novel or short story do you wish you'd written?
- Using real places
- writers' groups and politics
- Finding what agent represents who, and which books?
- A question about story plots
- Are Gangster novels in the same genre as Crime/Police?
- When nothing's flowing
- Cover letters, not queries
- Sick feeling
- Lesser known works of great novelists
- Have I missed something?
- Photo Shoots. Did you love them or hate them?
- Addicted to Rewriting
- When purple prose works?
- Unease about killing off characters?
- Sending off a full ms: practical questions...
- At Crossroads in First Draft. Help!
- 1 space or 2 after period
- Seeking software recommendations
- Writing Critique Group
- COCOA Petition (copyright issues)
- What genre do you reach for?
- When do you decide where your novel fits?
- Coming of Age Stories
- Writing to music
- More Chapter length questions
- General book question
- Manuscript question
- Character Descriptions....when and how much?
- New Ways to Advertise: Television
- 250 method
- Basing characters on the real freaks in your life
- writer desperation/depression
- Character Names
- Stressed by deadlines!
- Short little scenes?
- When Everything's Flowing
- Tiring Obsession
- Ye olde Body Language
- What they read in college
- What did your first novel teach you?
- Is it healthy when a Novel turns into a three part epic?
- Greetings...
- Submitting a novel to an agency
- Free Tips, if you need 'em
- Where did my thread go
- Help...
- Ghostwriting
- made-up languages
- I am Sorry
- mentioning other books that you've written in your W.I.P.
- Formatting Questions (quotation marks, etc.)
- Old board/New board problems
- I made someone cry...
- How long do you have?
- Don't eat luch at the keyboard.
- Marketing question...
- What's wrong with this opening sentence?
- copyright issue
- Western or historical fiction?
- Magical realism.
- Should you get an agent near you?
- healthy length for a standard historical novel.
- Passive protagonists
- Middle of the Novel Issues
- Another writer's book title in your book
- Wasting my time
- Writing full-time ... ish
- The best subject for a novel starting now!
- Hand Bookbindings
- Modeling
- Indenting paragraphs in manuscripts?
- What does this mean to you?
- What if a seemingly legit agent is constantly stalling?
- Number of Novels
- Book titles
- How'd Your Genre Find You?
- Nit-picky particular (that's fun to say!)
- Past perfect tense, etc. - grammatical questions
- Which novel type sells better, a series or single story?
- Models for Dialogue
- Bestsellers That Would Never Get Published Today
- List of Writer's Communes (and should one use them in one's list of achievements?)
- first novel?
- How accurate is this statement?
- Here's a novel idea ...your novels too long!
- Grow Op
- My 70th Rejection
- How old where you when you wrote your first complete novel?
- Ok....what genre is this?
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