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  1. Just how important is 'that'?
  2. Get Rid of "IT"
  3. Using real names (hotels, restaurants)
  4. Telling
  5. Jerks where I work will appear in my novels.....
  6. The Snowflake Method (merged with Dwight Swain's Techniques)
  7. Starting the second draft...
  8. Problems with a singing MC . . .
  9. Author Biography
  10. Writer's Market
  11. Bransford on openings
  12. Is the novella rising from the ashes?
  13. Top this, if you can...
  14. Are you more factual or creative?
  15. Character Interviews
  16. What is plot? and other discussion questions
  17. Reverse Dictionary and Thesaurus
  18. He said she said, who do I believe?
  19. Anagrams in Character Names
  20. Favorite Revision Process
  21. One line of brilliance, 42 thousand lines of...
  22. Query Letters -- paper and envelopes
  23. A question about the wretched first draft.
  24. To write for gold or for love
  25. Too scared to start editing
  26. Adressing humans of planet earth, on a work of SF.
  27. Can I do it?
  28. Need help with Children's game name
  29. Problem with the appearance of "then"
  30. Request rates on query letters
  31. Finalists are posted!! (Nathan Bransford's First Page Challenge)
  32. Green eyes??
  33. Urgent help needed with reference books
  34. A different kind of Query Question
  35. Mixed Emotions in ONE scene...
  36. Slow Agents: Impatient Me
  37. Getting to the end...
  38. Convention Etiquette
  39. Why can't I come up with a decent pen name!?
  40. When publishers take risks; books that flop
  41. What is 2nd person POV
  42. What's Your Writing Style?
  43. Autographed copies?
  44. Average Word Count?
  45. Opinions please, oh wise AWers...
  46. Character names from spam mail?
  47. Editor or no editor
  48. The traits of addictive prose
  49. Stream of Consciousness Editing
  50. Stupid question
  51. First novel compulete!!!! Now I have a few questions
  52. Is there a term...
  53. what's the worst part of writing a novel?
  54. Tension on every page
  55. Newb.
  56. Back cover paragraph
  57. Delivering backstory in first vs. third person
  58. Help! Need snappy comeback line...
  59. Can't read a book!
  60. What famous novelists wrote as children...
  61. If you think your idea is too far-fetched...
  62. Format w/ 1st person
  63. Things that turn novel readers OFF? (or things to avoid in your own writing)
  64. courier new vs courier dark?
  65. How to format a synopsis...
  66. Perfectionism: When is enough; enough?
  67. First person narrator and killing him...
  68. Is it unethical to query under a pen name?
  69. When enough is enough...
  70. Writing the end first?
  71. wading through the rejection puddle
  72. Am I Boring?
  73. False Starts and New Starts
  74. Unexpected places
  75. Fear of writing?
  76. Would your favorite song be a great novel?
  77. Would this be too cruel?
  78. Question for story.
  79. Brutalize the plot-in-a-line thread
  80. small presses help, please
  81. Plot Holes
  82. How do you start a WIP?
  83. Which comes 1st? Characters or Plot?
  84. What trumps what? Plot more important that good writing?
  85. What's your writing set-up?
  86. Exercises in developing characters
  87. Has anybody written a series of books?
  88. Introducing a character who is not at his best.
  89. Does anyone else have this problem?
  90. What is a good plot?
  91. Omniscient Narrator?
  92. FACT AND FICTION MIXED???
  93. When do you follow up?
  94. Dialogue: Three's a crowd
  95. Drafting, Revising, Editing
  96. Am I the only one who hates writing letters?
  97. All-knowing narrator...
  98. Inspiration is for amateurs
  99. Novel with too much SEX?
  100. What make you care about a character?
  101. Relative Ages
  102. Endings: Happy, Tragic, Ambigous; bittersweet
  103. Quirky characters
  104. Agent wants manuscript ASAP: do I shorten?
  105. Page numbering
  106. Ending on a cliff hanger?
  107. On Writing Great First Lines For Novels
  108. Describing heraldry
  109. Writing Full Time
  110. Is this a good writing style? (actions in fight scenes)
  111. Most fun/Least fun- all aspects of writing and getting published
  112. How much timetabling is too much?
  113. Is it normal to have characters that don't come out the way you want them?
  114. Making Progress
  115. Submissions: First 3 Chapters or 50 pages?
  116. Unreliable Omniscient Narrator
  117. Advantage of Author Assistance
  118. Storyteller vs. writer
  119. Cover letter ?
  120. Ever Get Depressed....
  121. Conflict, but not the main story in first chapters
  122. Mixing fact and fiction
  123. showing versus telling help
  124. To describe or not to describe...
  125. Query to agents or direct to publishers?
  126. When mailing out a query...
  127. Weirdest place where you get "inspiration."
  128. Writing software for novels?
  129. Two books are now one!
  130. Book Contract
  131. Okay I messed up, now what?
  132. Writing that second novel=good for editing?
  133. I don't think i have a genre!
  134. Recommended books?
  135. Another Capitalisation Question
  136. FIRST novel novelists?
  137. Genre Switcheroo
  138. Lawsuits and firing agents.
  139. Writing dialogue for multilingual characters - Advice needed
  140. Some advice for a beginning
  141. First chapter with some foreshadowing...
  142. that time of year
  143. Stories without quotation marks. Love or hate?
  144. What novel - movie most closely resembles your current WIP?
  145. Maintaining the "Fictional Dream"
  146. Odd names - Character names
  147. Second book blues
  148. How much "advice" do you accept and/or reject?
  149. How Do You Edit? Longhand or Computer
  150. Do you finish the scene?
  151. Good way to show backstory?
  152. How to flesh out a culture?
  153. italicizing memories?
  154. Have a quick question??
  155. Laughing. Aaargh!
  156. What do you ask Junior High Students? (HELP!)
  157. How big is a page?
  158. I have an idea for plotting a story
  159. Synopsis- selling point.
  160. This book is dedicated to...
  161. Genre Help and a few other questions
  162. Gay characters
  163. Finding my voice?
  164. Over-obsessing submission quality
  165. Can it help with imagery?
  166. Quick character study help
  167. "Location tags" at the start of chapters.
  168. Favorite lines you've written
  169. What counts as previously published?
  170. The perils of research
  171. Publishing
  172. snare drums and CONUNDRUMS
  173. Setting as a Character
  174. Writing from the POV of the opposite sex.
  175. Internal Dialogue
  176. Too old fashioned?
  177. Cinematic writing in novels
  178. Borrowing a line or plagiarizing?
  179. At what point does description slow down the narrative?
  180. Writer's Digest Writing Competition
  181. Target Audience shift
  182. Language in Fantasy
  183. OK I am finally depressed.
  184. Description: Single-shot or Buckshot?
  185. Help! Now What Do I Do?
  186. Preaching versus Moral in Children's Novels
  187. Poetic v. factual
  188. How/When do you know?
  189. Best Day and Time To Write?
  190. In Your Characters' Heads
  191. Music While You Write?
  192. Do you use a thesaurus?
  193. Stuck on Punk
  194. Consensus on dialects, regional vernacular?
  195. The Writers' Institute
  196. Do we agonize over our words too much? Are we ever "overdoing" it?
  197. Famous Rejections
  198. Who wrote the best battles in fiction/fantasy/historical fantasy?
  199. "20 years later..."
  200. Making time move
  201. Musings in the middle of the night
  202. Finishing a first draft
  203. You broke it, you bought it--when revisions go bad
  204. Do you draw a floor plan?
  205. An Offer...
  206. Make the research come to you, conveniently
  207. Problem with converging plot lines
  208. I think the worst thing about being a writer is...
  209. Oh no!
  210. Villain's POV?
  211. Help me with my plot twist?
  212. How does your technique change and evolve throughout WIP?
  213. wow - coincidence
  214. Another "foreign word" question - hijack vs. carjack
  215. Help rewriting the pledge of allegiance
  216. What would you do?
  217. It's about the missing Muse!
  218. "Show vs. Tell..."
  219. Gender Guesser
  220. Index cards: How to use them
  221. When is it oK to kill your protag??
  222. 1 down, who knows how many more to go...
  223. Book discounts
  224. A question for published novelists regarding taxes.
  225. Series but...
  226. What do you want to do better?
  227. I guess I need some Motivation
  228. Getting Back Into a Writing Pattern
  229. queen or no?
  230. How long to wait before re-reading your draft?
  231. I have this right...right?
  232. Assumption is the mother of all f-ups
  233. Town names
  234. Ah!! I just got my first request for a partial...Now what?
  235. Which opening are you more apt to pick up? Part Deux
  236. How often do you use directional words?
  237. Need Help and Suggestions
  238. "Walk up to" vs "Walk over to" discussion
  239. Pre-Writing?
  240. "I wrote WHAT!"
  241. Look at this!
  242. What happens when the good stuff starts in chapter 4?
  243. Can this manuscript be saved?
  244. State of the Speculative Fiction Novel
  245. How much time and effort do you put into your work? Do you worry about failure?
  246. Slush Pile question
  247. Metered Mail?
  248. SMS - Saggy Middle Syndrome
  249. Names
  250. Any 'more each time' novels/stories?