- When you decide to write a novel, how do you decide what the story will be about?
- do you know who 'he' is?
- Head hopping, not sure about this one
- I need classification help!!!
- Question about paragraphs running into next page
- Time references in a travel memoir
- Synopsis question: To caps, or not to caps?
- Nicknames in a synopsis
- Anyone use a service like this before?
- Using Em Dash with a question
- ...genre? Travel narrative vs. travel memoir
- Dialogues with more than two characters
- Genre Identification Help
- Would a story with three MCs find a ready market?
- so many questions
- Question of genre
- Desperate Query Help
- When Should I Expect My Acceptance Letter?
- I'm worried about cliches... Help!
- Do you worry your idea will be stolen?
- THE TIME HAS COME TO LEARN TO EDIT CORRECTLY
- When first converting one’s thoughts to writing . . .
- Writing in public?
- Do you ever worry that when you're writing a book...
- Should I send it back???
- Questions about POV
- How to become a GOOD writer.
- Bettering my flow?
- What is "voice"
- Getting the most out of this forum
- Opening with Dialogue?
- Dialogue Tags Other Than "Said"
- Good book on writing for beginners?
- Can someone please help me with self-publishing?
- Making of a Great Villain
- I am not sure on how to write an outline for my novel?
- Stick-tui-tiveness
- Writing a major event: How soon is too soon?
- Recommend a writing book
- Redundant words.
- Phase Outline?
- Cheesy genre for practice novel, good idea?
- Creating a Unique Character
- ISBN Info
- Do I really need to leave it alone for a week?
- How do Kids/Preteens/Teens/Adults talk?
- Character Voice, Novel Voice, Writer Voice?
- Showing thoughts...basic basic question
- lyrics for chapter titles
- help me please.....
- God vs. G-d
- Front cover and illustrations for books?
- Persevering and knowing how to skip through time
- Time Gaps in Plot; Adding Backstory or Problem?
- Ever Had This Happen to You?
- Is writing hard for you?
- What does it say about you as a writer when you prefer to write as opposite sex?
- Writing Conversations
- Help for a young author
- Writing Two Novels at Once....
- That Hurried First Draft...
- Query Letter, More or Less.
- Do 1 and 2 Dimensional Characters Have Any Use?
- From Good to Great
- Help me catalogue overused modifiers
- Passive writing?
- Where do your ideas come from?
- What would you say?
- Setting - generic or name that city?
- What other characters could I fit in?
- Q: Where to get a new brain & how to learn from mistakes
- It was a Dark and Stormy Night...
- boarding school
- Less than 2% of manuscripts published.
- Characterization
- Can anyone help with understanding what POV to use?
- How can I make up a language while keeping it believable??
- Writing dialogue for characters based on real people?
- Does bad writing get published?
- Unreliable narrator versus unreliable writer (and Wuthering Heights love)
- Unique Flashback Dilemme
- This may sound really stupid... (wordcount question)
- Internal dialogue
- Keeping the Audience in Mind...
- Writing Dislikeable Main Characters
- Teach 'em proper when they're young, I says.
- emotional incongruency between narrator and reader?
- What genre would my novels fit into?
- Basic format for a manuscript?
- work schedules and re-writing/editing
- 1st person pov question
- Free Indirect Speech
- Fictional Worlds
- Themes In Genres
- Im pretty new to writing, and taking a couple courses (one with Michael Knost)
- the "self" dilemma (MS Word not recognizing words)
- Query Suggestions/Is this typical
- Can't seem to rewrite...
- For those who helped me with 1st person POV
- Making a story a novel
- Killing the Self-Conscious
- Does this work?
- How can I do this without making it seem melodramatic/offensive?
- Critique group, yes or no
- Cross-gender writing (male authors writing female characters and vice versa)
- H.G. Higgenbottom --Or Nom De Plumes
- Question (good place to look for agents?)
- Receiving Reply from Editor
- Real Names in Fiction
- Looking for a word
- Agent, Publisher, Book? Oh my!
- Need help immediately please!
- Do you feel happy when you torture your readers?
- "can anyone help?" He asked.
- speech and thought/action--same line or next?
- How to write out multiple point-of-views?
- Question (how many words in chapter?)
- How does one make a memorable character?
- Past, Present, and Future Tense
- Simultaneous Submissions
- Not sure how to write this?
- Subject and Predicates
- When the sentence starts with "The question is"
- Numbers and capitalization
- Which is better in this sentence?
- Submission Crisis: Advice needed
- First Person, present tense in summary?
- Cookie-Cutter Query and Cover Letters
- chapter numbering?
- How much should you listen to beta readers?
- Do agents reject more on a Monday?
- Can someone recommend a great book on Pacing?
- How to respond? (to editor's reply)
- Help on phrases that mean 'Complete' or 'Whole Package'
- Do people ever try to "help" you write your story?
- How long for a magazine to reply?
- Synopsis horror!!!
- What would you do?
- Character Growth/Character Development What's the Difference
- How to Recognize A 2d/1d character
- Publishing Rights and Copyright
- how do start out with rough drafts with new manuscript
- Writing Bootcamps/Retreats
- Paragraph problems.
- Pen name problem?
- Motivating your characters/personalized rejection
- Clumping a sentence all together in dialogue...
- Developing and Growing Characters Without Making Them Perfect
- Public Domain
- Interview Essay Help... Anyone???
- Distractions, distractions
- When a minor character becomes a major character...
- Footnotes
- Total Verb Elimination?
- When a market asks for "biographical information" in a query...
- What Do You Do When Your Confidence Is Low?
- Great article for new writers (or writers who think they've nailed it but haven't)
- Interrupting the narrative
- Adverbs: How many is too many?
- Similies and Metaphors
- Intellectual property, rights to other media?
- Drama and Melodrama: What's the Difference?
- Fiction: Essays vs. Stories
- Yelling Said...
- How many MCs is too many?
- A meditation CD where sentences go on and on and on...
- What To Describe When Showing?
- Passive form...why everybody hates it?
- Why is there not a forum for Essays?
- How often do you skip lines with dialogue?
- Is it ok if my main character only comes in later in my story?
- Novel word counts .....
- Crossover Characters?
- Publications in Print vs. Online Question
- What vs. Whatever
- What type of main character do you like better?
- How do I show that my character's special?
- Choosing my POV character
- Disaster or Business as Usual? (submission delay at P.O. box)
- Beta reader?
- New writer, stuck. Any advice?
- First-person past tense, possible logic error
- 5 books by 35
- Picture books?
- How Do You Know...
- Describing characters
- Stupid q re telling instead of showing...
- Regarding word count, I seem to have the opposite problem
- Starting A Story With Telling
- Bad English Speakers
- How to write a proper Chapter Outline?
- Verb tense consistency? Hard/fast rule?
- Editing: Complete re-write or not
- Openings
- Just realized I don't understand this...
- How to submit prose poetry?
- Prologue or Preface
- Starting sentences with "I" or "we"
- When you get an idea for a book
- Vocabulary Learning Program?
- Dot Dot Dot (ellipses vs. em-dashes)
- Dialogue Question
- Scenes, Sequels and MRU:s
- Flashback? Prologue? Sprinkles of background?
- When your main character is...
- What's that Format Called?
- conversations without attributes
- Use Real Town Names?
- Content over Quality?
- Do you ever?
- Tips on Characterisation.
- How can I write this without making it seem offensive?
- How do you treat direct quotes on narration/dialogue?
- Estimating novel length?
- Revealing names
- Help! Brain fried and can't find a thesis statement
- Am I writing in 3rd Person Omni??
- Do you hyphenate your book?
- Giving action to a car
- Chapter titles for sub question
- Quick cuts - how much to specify...?
- Dreaded synopsis – how often do agents request the longer version?
- Is there somewhere on this site a list of reputable agents (okay I heard all those de
- How many spaces after a colon?
- How do you feel after you have read through your MS for the millionth time?
- The use of WAS!
- Can you mention names?
- Linking verbs/auxiliary verbs in narrative fiction
- All Caps In The Title?
- Descriptions clashing with rhythm
- Death Scenes
- Original Characters
- Three Dimensional Characters
- How long did you take to finish this manuscript (revamped, edited and satisfied)?
- Two first person points of view?
- Learning to Plot
- How important is title?
- How To Make A Character Real And Interesting If They Don't Make Important Decisions?
- Do you have a writing routine?
- What kind of writing is this called?
- When can you get away with infodumping?
- Time
- What do you consider a good title?
- Question about indenting the first paragraph of a chapter.
- fast track my character
- Editing the epistolary novel
- Formatting the title page/chapter titles
- Quoting other authors...
- Question about POV with a phone conversation
- Chapter titles using locations