- Using references....
- Quick question (when to begin new chapter?)
- Fictional Settings
- Character Growth, Change, and Flaws
- Humor in Dramatic Moments
- Question on plot!
- I should have asked him
- Do you write for a particular audience?
- How Do These Paragraphs Look?
- Describing A Sunrise
- avoiding racism in character description
- what's the difference (narrative nonfiction vs. memoir)
- Metafiction Question... (character in story writes a story)
- Juggling WIPs?
- Autobiography Inspirational Novel, huh?
- Where to start?
- MS Formatting-Email sub
- a basic editing question
- Introducing Characters
- Ending sentences with "?!"
- What POV am I writing in?
- Writing a MC that's your opposite sex?
- Got a few questions
- Story within a Story... Help!
- Telling a story out of order?
- Breaking point of view
- The Second Draft
- A question about writing attention to someone on an envelope.
- Does this make sense?
- List of basic conflicts?
- Separating Scenes
- Formatting a letter in a manuscript
- Major Punctuaction Error
- Remedial Structure Question re: Paragraphing
- Dumb dialogue question.
- Word Counter - how do you know how long your novel will be?
- Do I Have to Focus?
- Transitions
- My Idea Went Horribly Wrong
- Does this rhyme?
- Tightening
- Developing Characters By Their Traits
- NEW CHAPTER OR NOT
- Time of Day and the Sky
- I don't feel experienced/knowledgeable enough to critique others.
- Where do you find the time?
- Stupid writing errors made on Internet message boards...
- When, Where, and How to Begin
- Synopsis (what does an agent want?)
- Do I say 'tomorrow' in past tense?
- Chapter titles?
- Putting an email into prose.
- Full after partial - a silly Q...
- Scenes Which Develop Character/Theme/Plot
- Teen Writer Queries
- Character Changes - How Soon Do They Start?
- A plot question i suppose...
- Not sure where to post this question...(OK to resubmit revamped query to same agent?)
- Exclamation points bad...right?
- I hate Query Hell.
- Query Letter Etiquette
- Underlining in a manuscript
- Naming of characters by characters
- Is this a bad time to query?
- Initial Submissions
- The Perfect Initial Novel
- Ownership of Names
- Writing letters
- contests unpublished
- Stupid Capitalization Question...
- To what point does copyright extend?
- Writing a first draft as a fanfic?
- Info Dump Question
- Glossary?
- If you send your novel to a agent...
- A word question (gotten vs. got?)
- Character Trouble
- A question about Beta readers
- Rewriting an info dump
- Turning your day dreams, into a story?(newb alert)
- "edge" and "voice"
- Synopsis help, please
- Beads of sweat (and other clichés that irk you)
- Reference to real items in fiction
- College courses for writing.
- Backstory Blues (moved from Roundtable)
- So, here's the problem... (length and queries and synopsis, oh my!)
- Phrases that mean "nothing"
- I have a question.. (wearing swords)
- what makes a short story a short story? (mss. lengths/wordcount)
- Multiple POV's
- When readers love your "false start."
- Manuscripts and Formats (starting new chapters)
- Never begin a novel with the MC in bed, travelling, etc?
- Advice on writing software (Writesmoke)
- does a writer's thesaurus wiki exist
- Quoting a trademark?
- Moreau in Public Domain?
- Novel or Novella?
- Using a typewriter for first drafts
- 1k is equivalent to how many words?
- Magical Realism? Where should this question go?
- Pride or self-respect - what's the difference?
- Books on writing?
- Submission dilemma
- Writing a Political Biography: I need help!
- Referring to non-humans
- Question about Format for Critique
- Any UK Writers Out There? Yank Needs Help (UK vs. US postal rates)
- Wrong agent responds to query
- Referring to a person in a memoir....
- rules for starting a story
- Looking into Characters
- Dialogue tags
- Submitting chapters when you don't really have 'chapters'
- Posting Ads
- Question About Author Names.
- Stuck on a location for the main plot scene.
- Is it ok to write your sypnosis from characters POV?
- Query Question
- Methods to help you focus while writing
- What goes into a book proposal?
- Copyright Question
- Story 1 or 2?
- Legal ramifications?
- Question about flashbacks
- Can "cropped" be used in this sentence?
- Opinions on Climax right at the end of a novel
- Writing Contests
- Smoking in books
- World Building?
- Synopsis of my Story
- Children's story and re-publishing
- Is it possible to improve description? any success stories?
- 3rd omniscient--the less favorite child?
- How many antagonist?
- Copyrite Registration
- Keeping A Character a Mystery?
- Grammar Guru's Gather - Dumb questions about quotations
- Proper formatting for inserting email and chat conversations into a book?
- First Person, Present Tense
- Another way of saying, "Suddenly,..."
- Mentioning well known people
- I have a problem. (no-show critiques)
- I'm a little confused if I should keep it... (similarity to Harry Potter?)
- Meeting secondary character
- (Agent) Rates and scams
- Viewpoints
- So, I opened my WIP today....
- Word Count loss after rewrite...
- Heros can be nasty!!!
- Make-believe vs Reality
- Question about Italics
- I've Got the Funny Aneurysm Blues
- About how many words should a Young adult Novel/book have in each chapter?
- A POV Question
- How To Make A Character Grow Without Making Him/Her Perfect
- Children or Children's?
- Editing and Revision (print hardcopy, or edit on-screen?)
- Is it a short story or a novelette?
- Compound Contractions
- THAT is exasperating!!!
- Capitalization of Races (sword & sorcery / high fantasy)
- Another third/omniscient POV question... sorry!
- Why did this work?
- Memoir or Narrative Non-Fiction?
- Back story
- Unnecessary Words?
- past tense/present tense question
- 'Show, don't tell' is making my brains hurt
- Importance of beta readers
- Creating conflict: Check! Resolving conflict: Uhh...
- When writing what someone read. How do I put it???
- on style
- Till, 'til or until
- Prologues
- Run on Sentences
- Which Flaws To Keep/Overcome
- (G)goddess
- Why does everyone hate semicolons?
- Creative non fiction question.
- How To Make A Character Come Alive Through Traits
- Memorable Quotes: When To Use Them
- Italics and Underlining
- Similar character names
- How long to follow up on a requested partial?
- Question re: Capitalizing characters' titles
- Question re mixing genres
- Dialogue Tags as Body Language/Actions
- How do you write your plot?
- stuck on 2nd draft
- Period-Specific Dialogue
- Another one of those questions about names starting with the same letter.
- The word 'though'
- Plot Points
- Incorrect speaking on purpose?
- Killing Off A Character
- POV question--Please advise me on this!
- Punctuation for unfinished sentence.
- Using An Outline
- Sending your work when a partial is requested
- Too many revisions?
- Four Questions!
- I need help on reading critiques....
- addressing two editors for an online pub?
- Balancing a Character's Description?
- Foreshadowing
- Another Boring Formatting Question (italics vs. underlines)
- When to follow up with an agent or editor
- Created languages
- Cover Art?
- Correcting Auto-Correct? (switch MS Word options on or off?)
- All Black/White Characters
- Question of Tense
- States and countries
- Half way or halfway?
- What is the best size for a debut novel? (moved to BWQ forum)
- How Many Words Should Be On a Page?
- So long and thanks for accepting my work?
- Too DRAMATIC? (setting the mood w/ or w/o humor)
- Lawsuit targets
- Grammar: Two Questions Together?
- How to format thoughts
- Help needed on a translation
- Biography - questions on legal issues
- Need Help Writing About Detail
- Autonomedia.
- Book Title......
- is alright alright?
- When There's Nothing After Dialogue Quotes
- Multiple First Person POV's
- Name dropping.
- two book deal or one?
- Using the internet.....
- When To Quit?
- A re-query question.
- Get away with more in genre fiction?
- I *think* I'm smarter than MS Word...
- Jungle vs Forest?
- Jokes and Puns
- Two Questions About Italics
- Legality of using place names
- POV and dialogue tags
- Pick a genre, any genre!
- Query Explanation (what to include in a Sci-Fi novel query... pointer to SYW)
- Need special advice (from anyone who has published on Lulu.com)
- Did I say this right?
- Flames are licking around the base of my Query
- Memoirs vs Life writing
- I have a silly question.