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- Trouble starting new novel
- How do you fold a SASE?
- What's the longest you've worked on perfecting a single page?
- Dialogue in Prologue Question
- Writing talent or just plain stubborn?
- Query moron needs help with belly flop letters
- Shortest, longest chapters
- Yay, the scene is done! Wait, no it's not...
- Questions about setting a novel in a real town
- Need Help With Adding A Famous Person In My Novel
- Cheating on your novel
- It's Always the Puppies...
- Your Novel's Page Length
- How to write horror
- Fiction and modal realism?
- Character creation
- What book tugged at your heartstrings?
- Need to study subtext, but how?
- Spider-like?
- Page Count?
- Thoughts/Internal Conflict
- Oh God I'm too stupid for copyedits
- Hey, Toothpaste
- First chapter question
- Chopping novels into bits
- Help me outline a character driven book? I'm sort of freaking out.
- Rewrite misery (aka: at least she liked my zombie)
- Violence
- zimbo fiction contest
- Suddenly Depressed
- Novel idea - what do you think?
- Am I crazy? Is this normal?
- A Few Kinds of All Over The Place
- Trying to write - Finding it hard
- Box or envelope for 50 pages?
- Question on titles
- Google Settlement
- Are dialogue-driven novels a bad idea?
- Are you linear writers or just random scene writers
- Fanfiction to Novel?
- Suffering Market?
- Prologue Question
- Dumb question thats concerning me.
- Help with "casting" a character
- My MC has baulked
- online synopsis / back cover highlights advice
- Military/Espionage Question
- Don't give up!
- The 'driving force' of my story that I seem to lack
- Expessing a moral view?
- Storytelling
- Do you know the end of your novel?
- Serialization
- Displaced hate
- Switching from plot to plot within one chapter
- 180º main characters
- How long does it take to get paid once a publisher offers you a contract?
- Recovery Time
- first person narrative with third person dialogue?
- Creative Writing
- Createspace as a valid credit
- Who makes the best beta readers?
- several MCs: weaving...or chunking?
- chapter breaks?
- Adding some zip to a sequel?
- Hotness?
- Do we try too hard?
- Need Help
- Advice needed or suggestions
- 'Borrowing' a Novel's Structure
- Must we stop reading?!
- that f-ing hook
- Is starting with a secondary character ever a good idea?
- my bumpy middle
- I'm NOT doing NaNo 2008 and I've written...
- Outlining After the Fact
- Advice on when to feed in backstory.
- Novel written in "Transcript Form" - Is this OK?
- How well do you handle the rejections?
- How do I do Characterization?
- Question about reading
- Where is the sun when you write?
- How long should it be.....
- Chapter Length
- Online storage, people!
- First Draft
- Synopsis Question
- Question to ask when you're stuck
- Talk about murdering your darlings . . .
- Kill it or let it grow?
- query question
- What do you do if your novel is too short?
- characters and their physical descriptions
- The "wise woman": cliché or not?
- When is Deus ex Machina OK?
- Characters Speaking in Contractions
- When writing about dark, deeply flawed characters...
- It's Been Done.
- Have you "scene" it?
- antagonists
- Too Gimicky?
- Of politics and science
- Use of Racist Terminology
- Racism
- Absolute Software
- Voice
- Word Count question
- Is this realistic?
- Not knowing what the story is about?
- THEY can’t judge a book without its cover.
- What is a novel?
- Working It In
- The number of characters in a story?
- Similies and their avoidance
- Submitting by email - title page & synopsis
- I'm not sure about this..
- i'm new to absolutewrite....
- Three ready to go, and not a clue in site
- plagarism pays
- Putting shorts on your website once you're pub'ed...
- Agent Question
- Can I use his first and last name?
- Perspective Advice
- Shifting Narrative Voice
- Final Chapter/Epilogue
- TAROT Reading for characters
- Short story to Novel
- How to disappear a pesky sidekick
- Losing Confidence
- Novel in montage
- Which Should I Choose?
- Unlucky
- secondary character narration
- The last time you were excited about writing...
- Any books would help? Something that can help me write.
- Tell me about your male characters
- Designating internal dialogue?
- Can this manuscript be saved?
- Do's and Don'ts
- What genre is my novel in?
- Heavy Issues in YA
- Somebody dies in the end...
- Nothing explodes in chapter one.
- Writing a book under a deadline
- How important are chapters?
- Cursed to rewrite...forever
- Does it matter if everything is coming out like drivel?
- Do You Have a Writing Mantra
- when you know the novel must end ...
- oh for the love of....
- New story type?
- How much time did it take from the first word to the day you signed your contract?
- need a bit of editing?
- How many (k) do you hack out in your edit?
- Hurting the ones you love - Character Injury
- Would this annoy you when reading a novel?
- Have I made the right decision?
- Copyright process
- Profanity question....
- How long are your chapters?
- Time skips + changing POV?
- Giving the Bad Guy Appeal?
- Writing in a fictional city
- Tense and Point of View of your favorite authors/Genre
- Characters Talking to Themselves
- Query Letter Etiquette
- Experimenting with the synopsis and query letter?
- Internal thought
- Multiple parts in a novel
- "First draft" taking too long?
- Question about the label 'YA'...
- Starting a new novel...again
- AHHHH
- Italicize internal thoughts or not?
- Plagiarism?
- Foretelling pisses me off...
- Character Descripton
- Oops, named two characters after The Brady Bunch!
- First-person solution needed
- Please help with my collaboration h*ll!!!!
- Prologue v. Query v. Heart of Story
- Novel Surprises
- Outline or No? Or...
- Nathan Bransford holding another contest!
- Funny mistakes authors make
- putting puzzles to solve inside a novel
- Chapter one not related to the rest of the story
- I Need a Red Shirt Character
- WHY do you dislike Self/POD Publishing?
- The Law of Averages ...
- 70 word sentence. Too long or do I have control?
- What does your literary frustration sound like?
- helh help quick
- Posting a Chapter to a Web Site
- second novel
- How finished...
- Starting My First Novel
- Quota
- My spy novel stinks
- Could use some help please, with a similie
- The critical hump stall
- How do you keep your WIP fresh?
- Outlining: Am I doing it right?
- For the Seeming Few Who Tire at the End...
- Question on Middle Grade Word Count
- Would this be okay?
- What's the longest WIP you have abandoned?
- Suggestions please...I've made a real mess.
- The Right to Write
- A certain protagonist goes genre-hopping?
- Blocked
- Yikes! Do I have the strength for this story idea?
- Multiple 1st person interaction
- Thoughts on audiences- YA vs Adult
- Novel Length
- question about internal conflict vs. external conflict
- Hate
- AAAHHH! *Bangs Head Against Wall*
- Talk abour your WIP(s) problems!
- First Person Narration & Tenses
- Ever found a title in a dream?
- What if sex were boring?
- How NOT to start your novel
- Have you ever gotten a novel idea from a dream?
- Need Advice from Young Authors (on editing and publishing my book)
- Backstory problems.
- Sex, Death, Booze, Drugs, "Virgins," Disease, Sick Puppies...
- Said bookisms: what if the character really whispers the line?
- Novel writing books you recommend
- Text Stats (books on Amazon)
- I Hate Doing It, But...
- Writing on subjects other than your forte?
- Merry Christmas
- Anti-First Person POV?
- No short-story credits? Why not?
- From Real-life Person to Fictional MC...
- Completely paralyzed
- Poor description problems
- How Did You Choose a Title?
- Anyone ever feel that they love their story but they're no longer in love with it?
- Defining Moment
- How did you know?
- How Many Commas?
- Any Advice?
- Two opinions (how do you know your novel is good enough?)
- Novel Playlist
- Slidey POV
- Mom and Dad?
- New Years' in Novels
- Another question regarding multiple POVs
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