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- Do Male Authors Tend To Be More Successful?
- Learn Writing with Uncle Jim, Volume 1
- Learn Writing with Uncle Jim, Volume 2
- Time, the biggest foe of all!
- A jacket blurb for a fantasy epic
- Do you buy books from authors you've met online?
- hardest subject to write
- Novel Length
- Physical Descriptions
- Guidelines for Using Brand Names, Locations, Song Titles, etc...
- Supernatural romance?
- A Novel Concept - Conceiving a Novel
- "Don't rewrite until you've finished first draft"-
- Ending with a Twist
- I'm discouraged...
- Eliminating Prologue- Help!
- Imagination and ideas
- Graphic Novels: The planning
- Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" feature
- I am a 13 year old needing help!
- Where do you get your ideas?
- Music
- First Person POV or Narrator
- Improving your dialogue writing
- Publishing Novel Excerpts
- 100 Words for 100 Days
- I larned riting with Uncle Jim...
- DIgusted with first three chaps
- Still disgusted, but hopeful -- WWYD?
- For those with published novels
- Word Count
- Serializing Novellas?
- Improvements to your craft?
- Show, Don't Tell
- How things are. What happens. How it turns out
- Editing....
- hardcover books: why?
- 1st Person POV & Tense - Having Issues
- Why write?
- Querying BEFORE the novel's done?
- What are the Mechanics of YOUR process ??
- What Program do you write in?
- I need to KILL my Inner Editor
- I think I'm going the wrong way
- What about the cover?
- NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Will I ever read Uncle Jim's thing?
- multitasking?
- Uncle Jim a question for you...
- Time spent developing before writing
- Good Book By Ursula Le Guin
- brides who are in the over-55 age group
- Uncle Jim You are killing me!!!
- Science Fiction Romance genre
- Watch novel grow
- Turning Point
- On a hunt for dialogue...
- Which do you prefer to read?
- Situational Writing? What is it?
- Themes
- Need somebody to help me polish my novel---will pay
- Agents and Publishers Interested in Fantasy First Novel?
- Dialog - How much?
- Don't quit your...
- Character descriptions
- Author Name/Character Name
- Another Beta Reader question
- On line classes and writers associations
- Dialects
- Subconcious Writing?
- Pamela Anderson
- Character development - peculiarities?
- POV Technicalities
- italics for thoughts
- thought... and other thoughts
- I am having so much TROUBLE...
- Please fill in the blank:
- A question about Novel writing
- Sales Figures
- My tip for defeating writer's block.
- What's in your collection of most valued hints & tips?
- Opening chapter
- Genders
- frame story/ point of view problems...
- What is the correct way to write sound effects?
- Changing main character
- obstacles, high concept and all that crap ...
- Literary Fiction
- can we say famous places in certain ways?
- Will there ever come a time...
- Help to settle aruguement for page count in a chapter
- Hi, and a few questions
- MS Formatting Primer
- Who said ???
- Anyone else torn between two (or more) passions?
- Stepping into your characters' shoes
- Bold in manuscript
- How do I type this???
- Posting Excerpts/Summaries On-line
- Guidelines for an overseas writer?
- Need Advice about ....
- Protagonist
- How long is too long?
- Help
- Question regarding writing different genres...
- Of two minds
- Synopsis
- Sound byte?
- What's in a Genre?
- POV - 3rd Omniscient
- Now Uncle Jim, look here please
- Stuck near beginning part again...
- The Series Conundrum
- Novel length
- BLOCK talk
- Novel format
- He said / She said
- White Lies and the Reader's Trust
- unintended allegory
- Rewrite the 1st or start the 2nd
- Made-Up Words
- city scenes
- Accents? Help please! :)
- Music in Fiction
- How much is too much? Help again please...
- How funny can you be
- Orchestration/Action
- Must the protagonist face the antagonist?
- Dialogue problem: portraying other languages in English
- single or double, one side or two?
- Do you hate what you write?
- Writers Are Terrorists
- Beefing Up a Novel
- Final MS format
- Should I get a beta read?
- Its almost November!
- What's a book packager?
- Thackeray (?) anecdote about writing discipline
- What is your writing discipline, if any?
- Main Character isn't that likeable
- how did you learn to write?
- How Long Do You Have To Wait Before Hearing Back
- what sets you above the rest...
- dumb question...
- what's the plausibility of this?
- HOW DO YOU GET A SIX FIGURE ADVANCE
- HOW DO YOU GET A SIX FIGURE ADVANCE
- Look Ya'll!
- Perspective
- stock characters...
- Formulating Ideas
- IF A PUBLISHER ASKS YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR MS IS THAT GOOD
- Essence
- cover art....
- CHARACTER NAMES
- WHAT ANY OF YOU BE WILLING TO HAVE A LOOK AT PART OF MY NOVE
- CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO DELETE ONE OF MY POSTS
- COMPUTER GAMES OF NOVELS
- Fantasy Reading List Requested?
- I wrote a lot today!!
- PUBLISHERS BIDDING FOR AN AUTHOR
- Dear Diary
- Not sure if this is the right place to post this...
- The more you write the less you read
- Does you second novel always have to be longer?
- When can you start writing to agents?
- What to have prepared in advance for agent
- slipstream?
- Discretionary unique name usership
- Writing to music
- Make ya smile
- Is doing this okay?
- How do you feel about...
- Story curve
- What's an acceptable advance?
- Books on novel revision?
- Would anyone be willing to take a look at my work
- Passive / Active voice
- Why is Uncle Jim's Forum Closed?
- Xmas presents
- Writing fantasy stories involving history
- Reading italics and untagged dialogue aloud
- Short story versus novels
- editing techniques....
- Free Uncle Jim!
- Writing software recommendations
- Which magazines should writers subscribe to?
- 101 things a novelist should never do...
- What gives with this?
- Your First
- Writing through passive eyes
- Can I use real people from my hometowns names
- The dark side, Baby!
- i want book ratings....
- Eat till you drop day!
- Do I need to say a character is black?
- killing off main characters
- ideas you'll never write....
- pet peeves in OTHER novels....
- # of Characters & Naming Characters
- physical descriptions
- question on character age for adult novel
- "One for the drawer"
- Names
- My Submission to Random House
- A Question for James A. Ritchie
- Good news - heard from my literary "angel"
- Need input on query letter for novel...
- The Next JM Barrie Could Be YOU
- How long are your outlines?
- Use of people's memoirs in fiction
- Do Publishers Just Work MON-FRI 9.00 - 5.00
- Time it takes you to revise a novel?
- Input on Query letter requested
- First Edition
- Book Writing Contests...
- Protective/private
- Graphic Novels
- POV question
- Research question
- How do you put a few chapters online?
- query question
- Have you ever SEEN one of your characters in real life?
- A general idea I had (need feedback)
- Do extras/minor characters need names? +another ?
- My Internal Editor won't shut up and leave me alone...
- suggestions please, because you guys are truly helpful
- Do you "cast" your characters?
- How do you know what advice to follow? (Critiquing problem)
- Which is worse; fear of failure or fear of success?
- How do you "rough" up a character?
- ADHD Authors, and grammer or is that grammar teachers that..
- Is it ok to make a male hero sensitive?
- Sophisticated Intelligence vs Meat and Potatoes Intelligence
- Subtext
- Titles
- If you could choose any publisher, explain who and why!
- POV question
- Advice on my next step.
- lbp? ???
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- Something to ponder....
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- Does Writing Get into Your Dreams?
- Who has one of those portable word processor thingys that...
- Fiction/Fantasy- Have you ever put yourself or...
- High school education vs college ?
- Do you give your agent a christmas present
- How much rewriting/editing is enough?
- A book
- Twist Endings
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