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- First Chapters
- Newbie, Help!
- Great Example of Keeping POV in a Scene
- J.K. Rowling
- The Superhero Genre
- dialogue and numbers
- Survey About Books About Writing
- To tell or not to tell: that be the needling question, me hearties
- Chapter Titles
- Trying to determine genre
- Commercially Viable Products
- Writing Dialog
- When writers get political
- Need advice
- Translation services
- A Kingly Right
- How to give a really good image to the reader
- How to create and describe creatures?
- ( )s and , ,s and -- --s
- Margaret Weis
- Quotes For Dummies
- What's Your Fetish
- Write a book in 28 days?...
- Need Sage Advice
- At last! Two-dimensional characters get the respect they deserve!
- Chapters and POV
- How does one "drive"?
- Genre difficulty
- WHAT'S THE FREAKIN' POINT?
- Are interviwes necessary?
- Inspiration for one of my Character dies Wednesday
- Isn’t studying Hemingway and the other masters a bit like studying “Mr Ed?”
- Flaws and addictions
- What book inspired you to be a writer?
- ouch...head hop!
- Reader's Digest
- Need help psychologically profiling characters
- switching between novels and short stories?
- POV revisited
- Blog novels..
- Question about the process
- Ever Have to Look Back? How Often?
- Request to rewrite?
- English or Mother Tongue
- 40k novels
- Writing Success
- Orchestral for inspiration.
- Pitching advice
- What're some of the tricks that allow writers to slip the straitjacket of chronology?
- Which source should writers draw on most: Memory or Imagination?
- Writer's Roundtable
- What are the most popular painters to hang over one's escritoire?
- Need advice
- Rewriting Rain (cringe)
- Are Editors a necessary evil?
- 'Soundtracks' for Writing?
- Killing off MC
- What would you write if you thought no one but you would read it?
- To prologue or not to prologue...
- Pacing
- Writing Historical Fiction - Do you get paralyzed by the details?
- Peculiar responses from publishers
- Can't think of a title!!!
- Young Adult
- Prologue AND Epilogue? Too much??
- What Makes A Writer Good?
- Main character suicide attempt in chaptor 1?
- What is your favorite book?
- Advice: Beginning with the distant past
- I'm stumped - need a suggestion or two
- Signal Reports - Know how to get them?
- knowledge is power and power is threatening; need some suggestions
- how do you...
- Publishing question
- Writers Bureau courses
- What about 2nd person POV?
- Which way sounds best?
- The Hobbits of Flores in a Novel?
- a couple of questions
- When does "experience" start to blossom?
- POV of the opposite gender
- Series book deals
- What if you've lost interest?
- Introduction (My First Novel)
- Can a dialogue tag "smile"?
- POV problem
- Changing POV
- two questions
- Soundtracks
- Writing scenes that are to occur later on...
- Epiphany
- Is there a conventional way of writing "Shhh..."
- Agent vs. editor
- Where to start?
- Where to start
- "A Life Less Lived"
- setting is a real place?
- How Do You Focus?
- Is the use of celebrity likeness for your character a problem?
- Should my characters stop to pee?
- Head Hopping
- Any insight?
- Macmillan New Writing
- Character names
- Brilliant!
- Agent asks for manuscript...
- 2 Months past deadline
- Indenting dialogue?
- Has Anyone Ever Tried This?
- Too many ideas?
- Found my manuscript
- Describing facial expressions
- Pages per chapter
- The Opening Scene
- The names have been changed...
- Killing of MC
- Help me determine my demographic, please!
- novella
- Song Lyrics (And Getting Permission to Use Them?)
- "Seemed"
- legality of quoting song lyrics
- What IS the truth about the competition, please?
- Tell All?
- Making yourself a character
- Self Publishing
- Am I crazy, or is this major head-hopping here???
- I have an incredibly stupid question
- How much $$$ ???
- Typos in published novels?
- With all the talk of Self Publishing I have a question
- Revision process?
- The economics of book publishing
- Small Press Marketing
- Getting back in the saddle after 6 months.
- contest question
- Writing Simply...? (Warning: contains a bonus stupid question)
- Author Apologises for copying...
- you can never have too many threads about stupid questions...
- What is a Book Packager?
- Research Trips
- Is this plagiarism?
- Said Is Dead?!
- How much story should one have after the climax?
- Little Brown pulled the book
- Conveying Caring when you don't
- Subplots, planning
- "Lightning Source"
- What Should I Do?
- Should it be linear?
- Formatting questions
- Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
- Advice on Bio
- But or And?
- What if you can't write the way you want too?
- How do you come up with a title?
- Novel written on eBay
- Asked to submit...now how to outline my friggin' novel?!
- What do agents do with rejected manuscripts?
- snippets of dialogue to appear later on
- The Great Editing Question
- For all the people who've been published at least once
- Suggestions to start?
- writing tutor
- Such a Compliment
- Such a . . . well . . .
- Marketing/Publicity Q
- Character arc
- 70k words.
- Amazon rankings
- How do new writers get back-of-book blurb and reviews?
- Questions about writing format
- If I print copies thru Lulu, can I still submit to Publishers?
- Using famous people as characters in a novel
- Another question about POV
- Question.
- Need advice
- How to make the reader care for your characters?
- using estranged historical figures...
- Is it okay to try more than one editor at the same publisher?
- On mailing great heaping wads of paper. O_O
- Quotations
- Is it
- You think it's a KIDS' book?
- Writing schedule
- Have the Illuminati/Masons/Tempars conspiricies run their course??
- No descriptions?
- Used book sales on Amazon etc.
- Villainless Books
- Referring to characters with ranks/titles
- Dumb Questions...
- How do you avoid being influenced?
- First person or third person?
- Copyrights, Editing & Agents
- To view a manuscript format
- A character recalls past conversation... (stylistic?)
- Character driven vs. Plot driven
- Writing Cinematically
- Flashback without the help of the character's mind.
- Protecting and saving your work
- Exactly 'when' to began write?
- Formatting question
- Spaces after period...what's the verdict?
- Another Plagiarism Question
- Banging my head on the wall - one page summary?!
- Question about a frustrating phrase I'm having problems with.
- Out of curiosity...
- Too Much Information??
- Oh My Gosh..
- Reality Check (Submission Guidelines)
- Co-authoring?
- If you were approaching someone for a critique, how much money would you offer?
- 250k novel
- What genre is my book?
- Would this be plagiarism (and how to get around it if it is?)
- Editing Question!!
- Is it bad form to use fantasy names from video games..?
- Publishing rights
- It's getting away from me!
- Writing about celebrities--one living, the other dead?
- I did it
- Developing a story line....?
- manuscript format
- first novel length
- the big wait
- Are You & Your Novel dot coms?
- The Dual Perspective of Pacing
- querying other agents while one is currently reading
- Who picks cover art?
- When does "advance" money come?
- Synopsis Tips
- Question for agents or published writers...?
- Opposing Critiques
- Audience
- Does anyone else struggle with the beginning?
- When not to write.
- JUMPING THE SHARK
- But I don't WANT to write that kind of novel...
- What to do...
- New to this, Agent has shown interest
- Your genre
- Look...it's a bird, a plane...
- Oh Crud, I lost my book.
- My book is too short
- Quick Question!
- First person tense changes
- Editor's Hat
- Mixing serious drama and humor
- Reading Bad Books
- Lengthening and Resubmitting Novels....
- crits that raise concerns
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