- When narrator talks to you
- Stories that span long periods of Time
- Keeping your POV straight
- A really dumb question - how many words per page
- Please help me describe this part of the scene
- Using Real Secret Orders names?
- Separating each chapter into a different file?
- Different Languages?
- MC Isolation - Published Examples?
- prologue vs preface.
- how many pages do you write per day?
- Is this length too short...
- My developing writing style is clippish, should I be worried?
- 'Search' Box
- Pen name question
- rules from the submitting and formatting book
- What is a "cop-out" ending?
- Re-writing Rutt
- What exactly makes a piece creative nonfiction?
- Synopses?
- First vs. third limited POV
- He/she said v. he/she asked
- Infodump?
- Predictability
- Point of View
- Software
- Quotation punctuation... a question of you saying tomaytoes?
- Is it just me?-Query with many POVs?
- Endings
- character's names
- 1st Person Descriptions
- Do you have to be eighteen years or older to submit a manuscript for publishing?
- I have a writing problem. If it's happened to you too, maybe you can suggest a fix...
- Stand-alone with possibility of a series...
- Ms Format Question
- Starting the beginning with a...
- a punctuation question (semicolons)
- MS setup?
- "Don't give it to your Mom."
- Remedy for the struggling synopsis
- Problem - synopsis with plot twist
- Tourist Attractions?
- Magical Realism - will it ever get published?
- Change in Narrator
- Characters Who Appear Flawless
- One Dimensional Characters and Plots
- need help. Format guide for indenting
- 3d,2d, or 1d. Which Should Certain Characters Be?
- I misdescribed a writing problem in another thread. Sorry. Here’s the real problem.
- The Word "However"
- Your favorite story development "systems"?
- Synopsis question
- I'm arguing with this sentence. HELP!
- Starting with a dream sequence?
- I. can't. write.
- Framing Question
- I'm Confused (telling vs. showing)
- preface in third person, rest of the book in first person.
- Disaster/Setback in the Action Scene (Swain/Bickham Method)
- Quivered like a....?
- Help breaking a nasty habit. 'Filtering"
- Really stupid question about formatting
- Dealing with unrelated ideas
- Query Letter Question
- help with changing pov style
- About agents... (OK to submit query for another novel?)
- Outlines?
- Problem with character?
- learning a new style
- Involvement of animals and/or babies
- Question about 1st/past POV
- Writing (handwritten or keyboard?)
- What's the proper way to do this...
- Citing in a Non Fiction Book
- Coming up with a title
- Pen name?? =0
- free word processors?
- Editing a novel on the computer screen...smart idea?
- Is first/ 3rd and 1st/omni the same thing?
- Anybody write metafiction?
- Using Dreams To Show Character
- The "I love you" moment
- Writing movement from A to B
- Thoughts on "that that"?
- Examples of using email / IM as part of a plot?
- Quoting Public Domain
- Writing Step by Step
- Character Recap
- Overuse of "Had"
- Cover letter question
- Reality Show - submitting ideas
- Character Dev - Neutral to Bad
- 3rd Person Omniscient & Limited: Confusion over thoughts/feelings.
- Rights of series in public domain?
- Cliffhanger Chapters
- These might seem like a dumb questions..
- Novel based on Shakespeare
- subjunctive mood
- About Fantasy
- Question About Revising
- How can I pull this off?
- Does anyone have a sure-fire way of switching off the Inner Editor?
- Writing conversations
- using real company name in fiction
- Please tell me about these "How to write" books
- Grammar. Really?
- question about line breaks/short stories
- Synopsis of your WIP on blog: Yes or No?
- Agent Follow-up
- Interesting thing
- Voice
- Lost Momentum
- Query Question
- ~ A question about another facet of writing ~
- Question about writing format? (character telling a story)
- Why Do Female Characters Get More Admiration Than Male Characters
- The Vibe Isn't There
- Release forms?
- Story is finished, now what?
- Format Question: How to Properly Notate Your Novel's Part/Section?
- Too few characters?
- Intense dialogue in first-person?
- What's the rule of quoting?
- You know, this isn't so bad (revision)
- Depth of Point of View in 3rd Limited.
- Characters with Nothing to Love\Hate About Them
- Does the 'translation' rule carry over for other cultural objects.
- Word Count in TNR is 50,000 for novel when I look at Word's line count feature, but..
- Having trouble classifying my story
- Show don't tell dialogue.
- Where to go from here?
- Sounds
- Relaxing Dialog
- Your favorite book about plotting?
- Same book title as say..a movie?
- Using real places and names
- Format for Synopsis and Author bio?
- Finding cliches
- When do you revise, and when do you schlep on?
- Outlines/plotting
- Too much detail
- Format of the 5 to 10 first pages of the MS
- Help with Title?
- Editing & Grammar Software Recommendations
- Book recommendations for PLOT?
- Where to Find: How to Format a Partial?
- Query Letters
- Doing more than one project at a time?
- OKAY! There has to be a better way to do dailies!
- Identifying Genre
- Fictional streets in real cities? Fictional schools?
- Is there a place for embedded sentences in fiction?
- What does stand-alone mean?
- definitions
- Length of Chapters
- Non-standard "plot?"
- Metaphor/simile as adjective?
- Dawn of the Dead Query Letter Exercise
- Using Narrative to Discuss Character Pasts
- Looking, glancing, gazing, staring...
- The sound in your head
- Write what you know?
- Legally naming an Installation
- Art Question
- Reference to Famous Works in Query
- Let me get this straight, if it's a great story, it can be written poorly?
- Betrayal.
- Format Advice
- Copyright/Trademark Question -- Wizard of Oz
- Where does my book fit?
- How can you tell how long your novel is going to be in print
- Avoiding a predictable linear storyline
- Ms, Mrs or Miss... Contacting Agents
- commercial publisher
- How to know the number of words my book is
- 2 Forwards??
- Newbie Question re writing arguments
- Artistic dialogue?
- Gutenberg Project
- Capturing dialect?
- prologue, prelude, or introduction
- Regarding the "A NOVEL CONTEST: The Elevator Pitch" [congrats to HistorySleuth!]
- A quick punctuation question... (use periods between character initials?)
- Avoiding Repetitive Phrases - Name that Writing Resource?
- writing (how do you feel about fanfic?)
- Writing Survey
- First-Person Past-Tense Question
- Starting novel with dialogue
- Uncle's Chess-as-Plot metaphor
- Help for a newbie
- Plotline vs. Literary Style
- Chapter Length?
- The Elements of Style
- Which Project?
- 3rd person,past tense,from female POV
- Book Writing Software
- Leaving words out -1st person
- Mixing first and third person
- Showing thoughts in third-person limited
- Novel Word Count
- A follow up question?
- Writing Drills
- muses..
- Children's Cover Letter Evaluation
- Etiquette for querying lost(?) submission?
- Company/Web Site Recognition
- I don't have an antagonist
- Software Idea
- On My First Revision
- Amnesia
- How do I know if I’m a good writer?
- First person narration or third person omniscient?
- A question about indenting?
- ideas..
- Third person and first person............
- Formatting Business Cards in a Manuscript
- Characters named after other characters
- What to do with this character? Lawful good, beautiful and boring...
- Intro lengths?
- Dumb mistake (publisher insists on SASE)
- Advice needed please (using song lyrics/titles)
- music.. (finding lists of popular songs)
- Question about chapter breaks
- Best Writing Technique?
- Writing True-Life novels
- Scents, smells and aromas
- Indian grammar
- Using italics in a long telepathic conversation (moved from Newbie)
- Where would I put these stories?
- Story series problem
- Another story series question..
- Overwrite vs. Underwrite
- boring book
- Copyrights and such. Does anyone know?
- Hitting the Wall
- characters voice
- Help on writing the alert sound, for text messaging
- First person-with schizoprenia
- Synopsis vs. Query: A question
- First Line Importance
- Questions: Courier, Justified, Genre
- Flaws and Negative Traits : What's the Difference
- Not telling enough
- Editing Insecurities?
- tenses question..
- How do I punctuate a character's thoughts?
- How do I get rid of eye movements?
- Writing a book in two different time periods
- Does anyone else feel like...
- Manuscript Submissions