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- I am trying to find my voice
- How do you show "being freaked out?"
- ten year gap to fill
- Benjamin Button POV
- Staying within my tense...
- Staying within my tense...
- Judging your own work
- Are Writing Exercises Useful?
- The trend?
- WhiteSmoke?
- Need name for...
- Lazy Writing.(What exactly is it?)
- Protecting Your Work
- What does "bloated" mean?
- Blasting through writer's block... with an outline? Your experiences?
- Has anyone tried Storybase software?
- Bootstrapping Your way to Success
- non-sequential writing
- MC in every scene?
- What did you do with your advanced reading copies?
- RIP Donald Westlake
- query letter that gives it all away
- Finding the Story
- Would a Prologue be Considered a Chapter?
- novels only?
- E-query etiquette?
- Experimental Style
- Prologue & Epilogue?
- How do you know your query is successful?
- NaNoWriMo...Has anyone sold or received positive feedback for their novel?
- Manuscript pages equals how many pages in a novel?
- Being Motivated By Reverse Psychology?
- What all do you do before you actually start writing?
- ...shook his head to clear it.
- Should I kill my MC?
- Male v. Female Characters
- present tense in past tense?
- My writing...
- AW Writing Class - Glynis O'Connell
- Which title do you like better?
- Setting
- Is it okay use telling if it's a memory?
- I think I lost confidence in my own writing. (Comparing yourself to published authors
- Help me pinpoint my theme
- Writing out of order
- question re my novel
- So, what is Theme?
- What are the libel rights of places of business in fiction?
- When is it too late to add a new POV character?
- Star Trek Book
- How crappy are your first drafts?
- Question - kinda confusing?
- HOW does a book get pulled out of its genre?
- Should I expect to get better in time?
- Agents reject my query : main character unattractive
- Query Letter Feedback?
- self referential story
- My dry romance... (sex thread!)
- Character cameo from another book
- Flaws - what endeared you?
- Number of Characters--How many can YOU handle?
- What makes a chapter?
- Basic outline of a query letter?
- Flashbacks
- “Everything is negotiable.” Not!
- Post Modernism - Your Opinion Please
- Learning the truth
- Combining first and third person in the same novel
- How can I classify my novel? Horror? Sci Fi? Speculative?
- How to classify this novel...
- Your favorite one-liners.
- Turning a Fanfic into a Novel?
- How much of a cliche is it...
- Anyone else addicted to revision?
- How to Write A Great Query Letter / Lukeman
- Need someone to spot me
- Tell me your worst
- Two tributes to Patrick O'Brian in my novel
- Surrealism - How to?
- Spin-off: Can you can yourself out on cliches?
- Writing in the Age of Distraction (Cory Doctrow article)
- Describing Clothing Optional?
- Dream inspiration, but not what you might think
- I think....I need...to start...OVER
- Novel to Film
- Does this mean less Sleb Biographies
- Am I a crappy dad...
- Where would this story belong?
- Help me choose my website?
- So how many trademark laws am I violating?
- Is It Possible?
- Confused on how to classify my novel...
- ...Now what?
- What to Do with All These Half-Finished Novels?
- Writing more than one book at a time?
- Which one do you like better? Poll included
- first-person commentary between third-person narration
- Those moments of futility.
- I've lost my objectvity, and I love everything!
- Important Advice
- Pulling Together The Threads
- Bad guys or unpublished?
- How do you feel about MacGuffins?
- Two murders, two perps, one book...does it work?
- Too short?
- Editing Tips
- outline help?
- Youtube credit in query letter?
- Self Doubt
- New Problem: Prologue Deletion?
- Characters and obsessive love
- first person, present tense
- Large font in the beginning on chapters?
- Writing about drugs and alcohol...?
- Where to Begin?
- Adding a little spice???
- I can't cut it down!!!
- Sequels
- Switching First Person POV
- How do divide memories from story
- Relative called me about my book!
- Your Character Interview
- Does the chewing gum lose its flavor . . .
- Edit vs. Salvage
- How do you KNOW?
- My MC's occupation...
- Novel vs. Query
- Switching POV in a new chapter?
- Length of Novel
- How many novels have I written?
- Pictures of your characters
- Characters who know/assume too much
- I need/want opinions on a novel plot I'm writing (feedback greatly appreciated!)
- How Not to Write a Novel
- Old, hilariously bad writing.
- Qualifications
- Tearing it down, starting over...
- "Not taking unsolicited queries."
- Is it my writing, my story, or just my query?
- Adult or YA?
- A story within a story
- anybody else blocked?
- Splitting in Half?
- The Dreaded Re write
- Good Bye, Rabbit: RIP John Updike
- free word count software?
- Background Information
- "Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world ... "
- Genre check
- Your favorite opening lines
- Does this matter?
- Exposition, Flashbacks etc
- Do you work on one novel at a time?
- sex-erotic-porn: is perception everything?
- Writing book manuscript by hand effective or cumbersome?
- Query Letters
- Guys i need some help.
- Cover letter
- e-pub advice
- Have a question about publishing
- The Career Novelist
- Will there be a middle road?
- Commercial and Literary?
- Is this Character A Cliche?
- If you have a non-fiction book published, is it easier to get a novel accepted?
- Grammar in novels
- Dating your scenes?
- The Middle Grade Novel - Language
- Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest
- Advice from Vonnegut
- Some Suggested Reading
- Query Follow-up?
- Teaching Vs Entertainment
- Ready, Set, Discuss!
- I love Google Earth!
- Multiple simultaneous projects
- POV character is listening to a recorded conversation.
- Legal question: using popular culture references
- Best method of designing a novel?
- Changing Location
- WHO are you, in your novel?
- To kill or not to kill?
- Is your Title a Potential Bestseller?
- Fictional Town
- Heads nodding and shaking
- Guilty Secrets
- Personality Traits
- As You Know Bob
- standalone first books and endings that call for sequels
- Intrusive 3rd person intimate narrator?
- What's another word for POOP?
- POV Scramble?
- When your MC isn't much fun to write
- Experimenting with novel layouts
- How Does This First Sentence Grab You?
- Writing career and academic career
- Needing permission???
- Inspiration
- If you have multiple story ideas...
- When do you throw in the towel?
- Finished book 1 of possible series. Should I start on the Book 2?
- Magical Powers
- The ole' bait and switch
- What do you think this line means?
- I'm having trouble with this novel's genre
- The benefits of editing from hard copy
- MC being obscene for good reason--a turn off?
- Was anything if not...
- How many side-plots is too many?
- Two Weeks Are Up... Do I Say Something?
- Multiple Cultural Integration
- How much of an advance can a first time novelist expect?
- Genre question
- Is Purple Prose Hated by Everybody or Just Writers?
- Spinoff: Single vs. multiple book deals
- DONE!
- How do you find a good Publisher
- Need help guys
- Formatting question - Multiple Parts of a Novel?
- In line for consideration??
- Is it realistic for a new writer to get published?
- NEO - Alphasmart
- Is this redundant?
- The relationship between you and your character
- A bit, Kind of, Seemed like
- Two authors for a novel?
- Head Hopping?
- Mystery of NY Times Best Seller List: What qualifies?
- Second Draft
- Query Haiku!
- Writing the sequel
- Schizophrenic Scribes
- Write the Sequel or a New Book?
- Info dump in sequels
- How long is too long?
- What genre sells the most? Wondering what my next project should be..
- First draft quirks?
- First in a Series
- Query Question
- So, my MC is looking down into a valley...
- Conflicting tones?
- Best piece of advice
- How long do you let a novel rest before you continue
- POV question
- Help me decide on a second book - does genre matter?
- Not YA, but main character is a kid. Thoughts?
- Novel Notebook
- What I learned from my first/second/last WIP
- Don't break a sentence.
- What's your MC's flaw?
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