- Publisher Loyalty
- smaller markets
- A couple of query questions
- What would you refuse to do for money?
- too much dialog?
- For those who've cut their first three chapters
- Formatting--a slightly alternative view
- Stand alone/Sequel
- Starting a story
- Taglines...
- More question on back story
- To all the other "hookers" out there.
- Question About Number of Pages In Manuscript
- Synopsis question
- A question of headers
- Relevance
- Researching Modern-day Japan
- writing what you know vs imagination
- Whew!
- Email vs Snail-Mail Queries
- Need help
- Which one to write?
- How would I do this?
- Avoiding the dreaded infodump
- New Query/Requery
- Requested Material?
- 4000 words, gone.
- Fedex/UPS/DHL ?
- Best Extra?
- Chapter Question
- Copyediting Question
- Bad guys that aren't
- Your longest and shortest books
- How long is a "short synopsis"?
- Your Name
- Homosexuality in a novel
- Post Submission Stress Disorder
- Nitpicky question
- Never Start with Dialogue
- First and last....
- Do you name your chapters?
- Foolproof method to back-up your writing?
- titlez - A great way to track books
- Cover letter
- Is this illegal?
- How many novels did you write before you got published?
- Starting With A Dream
- Got Sex?
- Meeting bestselling authors without looking like a jerk.
- What should my next move be concerning an editor?
- editors...which way is best?
- Second novel vs. First novel?
- Presently...at this moment...right now...
- DONE!! But can you guys provide some specific ideas about agents?
- First 5 pages
- Addressing a full - problem...
- A BBC article on starting to write a novel...
- What do you accomplish in the first 5 pages?
- Possible Alternate Title
- back in the saddle, sorta
- Do you ask for your full back?
- Including a few pages in the proposal package
- Falling in between two stools, please help!
- Need some romance novel recommendations
- Setting up a chapter
- What Genre would you consider this?
- How to stretch out a novel to fill more pages?
- More addressing woes...
- Suspense/Thriller?
- to copyright or not
- need some advice...
- Writing and drinking
- Picking names
- I need someone to hold my hand!
- Questions on etiquette when submitting a requested partial
- Fiction/NonFiction
- Original ideas?
- Stephen King's NBA acceptance speech
- Crossover Fiction
- On a roll... what do you do?
- Advice on querey
- Question about Editing
- My First Novel, and the Pain of Exposure
- Writing multiple stories at once...good idea?
- Villainy in the pot o' plot
- The End
- Desperately seeking input...or Susan...hell, or Susan's input
- How do you start over?
- Telling/Showing appropriateness
- Use of Brackets
- Would this hook you?
- Advice: Search for the Lost Arc
- Will I get my pants sued off?
- Help me unmix this metaphor
- Expanding Your Novel
- When is the end?
- How would you write this story premise?
- Books for prospective fiction writer?
- character attachment issues!
- Help me pick a title?
- Music to write by
- It's NOT finished YET?!
- MSWord senses my vulnerability
- Pacing
- how do you write a bio?
- A Question of Age
- YA or Children's?
- Professional writing??
- How do you come up with a title for your novel(s)?
- Freudian Slips?
- How do you dislodge words you've read from your head?
- I give up! Is this a cliche?
- looking for some suggestions
- Paring Down a Synopsis
- Similies
- Epilogues in Tragedies
- Prologue vs. 1st Chapter
- BEA/WDB Writers Conference 2007
- Should Christians write sex-scenes?
- The long re-write
- Writing a Novelisation
- New York City vs. Gotham
- Inspired by the "Pacing" thread.
- Obtaining a forward
- What's your preferred POV?
- Narrative Distance!
- Former Ethnicity in Novels
- So I'm working on my acknowledgement page
- too many readers for first draft?
- What to do when your passion and energy to write has died?
- Insecurities About Newness/Fresh Approach?
- Pull of the past
- Writers' Groups and writing
- Finished too early?
- Editing gives me the willies.
- Active vs. Passive
- Advice: Creating Real Characters
- What are your characters' flaws?
- What to do while busy?
- Chapter End??
- Writing exercises for two
- ...it's time!
- Do you use an Agent?
- What's your genre?
- First Novel Format...
- Post the first 3 sentences of your WIP!
- The writer interjects
- The Synopsis
- Stupid line!
- Ever have something you wrote happen in real life?
- Dear Editor
- Titles (needing opinions...)
- Give the opening paragraph of chapter 9
- How long should I wait to send out the second round of queries?
- Agent Vs. Publisher
- My query worked! Now what?
- Incriminating Evidence?
- Getting an agent from another country. . . .
- Asides and soliloquies
- Fictitious Novel Titles
- Not all Small Presses suck!
- Journal entry within a novel
- My book is on the website
- Story Paragraph Trouble
- Cutting off my prose to spite my pace
- Timing issue
- Where Do I Start?
- Measures of writing success
- Writing premonitions
- Opening paragraph feedback?
- Fight Scenes...
- Writing in First Person but the narrator is not the MC
- Give the ending paragraph(s) of a chapter
- Formatting Woes
- What the Protag?
- Creating Excerpts
- Chapter Length?
- Deserted Island Story Variants?
- My first 'romantic' scene and I need feedback
- Favorite word and/or form of punctuation?
- How long did it take you to complete your first novel?
- A stupid question about scene breaks
- I. . .I feel so dirty.
- Is this cheap and dumb?
- When to edit?
- How many drafts?
- What's your least favorite thing about the editing process?
- Reality vs. Preconceptions
- house of cards?
- Practical question - what would you do in my character's situation?
- I still can't believe it...
- Novel Writing Workshop
- sbelin
- A character without a name. Annoying?
- I hate high school
- What novel has changed your life?
- Help me come up with something more believable
- The Myth of Putting Away Your Completed Manuscript
- POV Help Needed
- Querying a specific agent.
- Holy smoke! I just edited one of the major characters right out of my novel.
- Villain's Motives
- Beginning or end? Which is more difficult?
- A Question
- A question on bios
- Advice: Setting: Being Strong, End Strong
- Catching the Present Tense Virus
- I'm beggining to tie my ideas together for a novel
- What would you say to the past if you knew the future?
- Repetition
- As far as titles go, how lame is this one?
- Need help with the begining!
- Are You Ever Surprised When People Describe Your Characters?
- The Easy Way to Write
- S & S Gouge for Writers
- Storylining
- The Multimedia Experience
- 18,000 words - need more
- Question about description
- Radial Outline
- How many people know Jack Frost?
- novels written in omniscient POV?
- What Do You Do When You Have Too Many WIPs?
- To outline or not to outline...
- That Damn Title
- POV Switch
- Looking for a substitute
- Creative Slump
- How do I know I started my WIP in the right place?
- Character POV
- Is this description okay? Or too much?
- Small Publishing Presses
- Miss Snark is gone! Is it true?
- Shades of Grey: Draft 5 start. Is this appropriate? (Language/Violence)
- Advice Please: Plot Problems
- Numbness?
- From hook to plot
- Sent snail mail partial: Should I email agent?
- I have NO idea...
- Mid-book blues compounded by loads of dialogue
- Quick Genre Question
- Suggested Reading for a Concept
- What's the first thing that comes to mind when I say...
- I got a request for a FULL!
- Is your character a Mary Sue/Marty Stu? - Take the test!
- The Novelist-god
- My character's not like me
- Are You Published? In What Genre?
- This sounds so dumb.
- Tell us your Plot in One sentence (merged with writing exercise)