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  1. Things you love in stories
  2. WHY do you choose to write?
  3. Things you hate in stories
  4. With a Twist...
  5. Unusual characters - description issues
  6. Appropriate coincidences?
  7. Things your characters say that stab at your moral compass?
  8. Nice Guys Finish Last
  9. Horrible Things You Do Anyway While Writing
  10. Creating a religion
  11. Slowing the pace.
  12. Do you ever channel your characters?
  13. What's a realistic timeline for completing my current WIP?
  14. I Think I Need a New Title
  15. Submission history of the project?
  16. Are there too many zombie books?
  17. Hitting the Wall
  18. A Final Dilemna
  19. Do you write your story sequentially?
  20. Avoiding the dreaded info-dump
  21. Coincidences
  22. M/M Romance: can anyone shed some light on this genre?
  23. Query re physical descriptions of the MC?
  24. Writing Sex
  25. Subplots
  26. Context of the novel...
  27. Bad Habits
  28. Favorite genre to read and write
  29. Synopsis and backstory
  30. Glorious trash
  31. Chapter 3 epiphanies
  32. the major-ness of minor characters
  33. Protagonist narrating story to unknown character - overused device?
  34. describing a celebrity's looks without giving a name
  35. A Brief Outline ?
  36. may cause offense-not this thread, hopefully
  37. A book of two halves
  38. How did your final draft differ from your first?
  39. Unconventional Manuscript Formatting
  40. Best book for new writer
  41. How Do You Find Books?
  42. Blank Blankery
  43. How do you become obsessed with your WIP?
  44. Trust, or How Do You Protect/Register a WIP?
  45. Need help with a name for a serpent!!
  46. Synopsis length, content
  47. Is this too much MC beating?
  48. Favourite Narrative Perspective?
  49. Homosexual characters (and including irrelevant information)
  50. My characters' reactions vs. yours (real) - Help!
  51. This or that?
  52. Need a reason to get married :D
  53. Is this a pretentious title?
  54. Metric vs. English measure for US fantasy novel
  55. Writing a novel
  56. What kind of responsibility do we have to the public?
  57. YA or Crime or Mainstream?
  58. Seeking Advice On Manuscript Submission
  59. Do they pre-judge by word count?
  60. Header in Query/Synopsis/Sample Chapters
  61. Timelines and Deadlines
  62. Books you re-read often.
  63. Second Person POV: Too jarring?
  64. The Average American Male: Word Count
  65. "What makes your book special?"
  66. Series You're Glad to Keep Up With
  67. What makes a story scary?
  68. What's the readability of your WIP?
  69. To Sequel or not to Sequel?
  70. How Important
  71. How much do I risk alienating female readers?
  72. Starting a novel with dialogue?
  73. What is the deal with Peter Pan & open domain
  74. Answer me this ... Genre confusion
  75. Lower advances, higher royalties
  76. Detailed descriptions of characters and settings
  77. Writer vs. Storyteller
  78. When Do You Rewrite
  79. unlikable characters
  80. Octavia E Butler on writing: thoughts?
  81. Favorite lines you've read
  82. Questions on a prologue
  83. What Do You Write When There's Nothing to Write
  84. Best opening you've ever read
  85. Chapter Heading
  86. How do you refer to characters who change their names a hundred pages into the book?
  87. Wading through shit.
  88. Mystery or motive
  89. Exponential Backstory - where do you stop?
  90. Time to write
  91. Would people be into this type of graphic style?
  92. Genre dilemma for my WIP Snow's Blood
  93. Physical Substitutions
  94. When you write, does it sometimes make you giggle?
  95. Question about view points in novels
  96. Launching all the boats
  97. When was the last time you cried?
  98. Is this too long a first sentence?
  99. Sending novel excerpts to literary journals
  100. A quick question...........
  101. My Main Character Is Not Cooperating!
  102. Creating a world...should I?
  103. Voice vs Story: personal problem
  104. How much dialogue is too much?
  105. The components of a novel
  106. Too jarring?
  107. Tense scenes
  108. usually a screenwriter...
  109. Novel Competition (Need some motivation?)
  110. Multiplatform
  111. Need Help Choosing a Title
  112. How to Tell a Riveting Story
  113. Title? I never have this problem!
  114. Character Names
  115. Three Chapters
  116. When agent revisions go wrong
  117. Is it true deals aren't made in the summer?
  118. Accidental Trends
  119. question about ownership
  120. How important are chaps 4 and 5?
  121. What person?
  122. Can you work on two stories at the same time?
  123. Flashbacks through background characters
  124. Contractions only in dialogue?
  125. Chapterless Querying
  126. This is not the self-publishing question you think it is
  127. The latest trends.
  128. Length of a dialogue, and other dialogue rules
  129. Female Friendship/Coming of Age Movies
  130. Research for Fantasy?
  131. An interesting Magical Realism Audiobook
  132. Chapter length question...
  133. Writing a character thought up by someone else
  134. Professional & Professionalism
  135. Requerying Experiences Good and Bad
  136. How long is too long?
  137. Writing is hard work
  138. Second attempt: Conflict with Betas
  139. CAN'T FIND A GENRE
  140. Thorny plot issue in a scene
  141. Endings
  142. Stopping a first draft midway
  143. Is this a good idea?
  144. Would this sell?
  145. How often do you write short stories?
  146. I promised myself I wouldn't do this... But I have an odd idea about chapter naming.
  147. Dear Reader
  148. Day Jobs and other miserable realities
  149. Finding that special some-when
  150. When you're frustrated...
  151. When submitting...
  152. Quotes in your work
  153. Most Popular Fiction Genres
  154. Is 45,000 words long enough for a novel?
  155. A feeling of general PO'd-ness
  156. Is there a market for novellas?
  157. How much do you write a day?
  158. I'm sorry for posting two new topics in one day... How do you do your second draft?
  159. Novel with Same Name
  160. Paraphrasing song lyrics in fiction...cool or no?
  161. Need Help Comparing My MS to Published Books
  162. I am afraid...of SYNOPSIS!
  163. When writing is no longer the problem
  164. Similar Books Query - YA Dystopian Romance
  165. Tor/Forge
  166. Books where the characters think strangely
  167. Querying WIP2 while WIP1 is on submission with editors?
  168. First person point of view x2 ?
  169. Makes me wonder
  170. Anger, Resentment, Bitterness. Do these work for you?
  171. Do you ever write out of order?
  172. References to popular culture characters/ideas
  173. Why is non-fiction so much easier to write than fiction? x_X
  174. Horrible ideas for novels
  175. POV Changes
  176. Revision Glory!
  177. Critically reading your own work
  178. Quote some good prose here :)
  179. Favorite bits of dialogue
  180. characterization
  181. Trawling the archives - info update required!
  182. First Person v Third Person Limited
  183. Too much introduction at once?
  184. Materialistic People; Spiritual People
  185. What, to you, is a 'draft' of a book?
  186. US Agents for UK Writers?
  187. Using a famous painting on the cover of a book ..
  188. Conversation with your MC
  189. Formatting A.M/P.M. size (small caps in MS Word)
  190. First names for my male protaganist?
  191. Killing characters in the heat of passion
  192. Grrr! I have no life experience and I can't write!
  193. Developing Characters
  194. multiple WIPs - how do you do it?
  195. How early is too early to describe landscape?
  196. The Midway Slump
  197. Pen Names
  198. Keeping Secrets from the Reader
  199. Publication Process Timeframe
  200. What was the last great book series you read?
  201. Grrrr having a block
  202. Reactive and Proactive Characters
  203. Ongoing WIP2 dilemmas while WIP1 is on submission.
  204. Mentioning Product Names
  205. Killing animals in stories.
  206. Reworking MS into YA
  207. Plots that never die- 10,000 Cinderellas
  208. 1st person POV and gender
  209. Frazzled by Amazon: Which books on writing/editing to buy?
  210. A marketing thread
  211. Two questions about character age
  212. a question of periods
  213. The Non-Craft aspect of Novels
  214. The danger of falling in love, e.g. murder
  215. Examples of bad prose in novels
  216. E. Lynn Harris, dead at age 54
  217. I was vs. I am
  218. insecurities and ideas, where to start?
  219. Opening a novel with a teaser that isn't expounded upon until about 1200 words later
  220. How often do you bug your agent?
  221. How difficult is it to sell a novella?
  222. No more than 50 pages with a...query?
  223. Place as a character
  224. Style-shifting? Dialects? People Saying Stuff?
  225. question about Epublishing
  226. Chemistry
  227. Thinking ahead?
  228. when improvement and production destroys confidence
  229. How to inject 'pace' into romance element of book?
  230. Writing third person limited. What constitutes a scene?
  231. Is good prose nothing more than an assload of commas?
  232. Literal Word Choice: A Workable Balance
  233. first person? third person? who are all these people??
  234. Backstory or info dump?
  235. Graceful ways to write the 'big reveals'?
  236. The God Damn Ending
  237. Iowa Writers Workshop
  238. Specifying the year/time difference
  239. What have you learned about the writing process since coming here?
  240. Editors Editing
  241. Trilogy Submission
  242. Out of pure curiosity...
  243. American v English Agents
  244. When your writing becomes so personal it hurts
  245. Yikes . . .
  246. Writing a novel: What's your favorite analogy for the process?
  247. How I learned to stop worrying and love revisions
  248. Stories that don't get old.
  249. Exhibitionists
  250. One Page Outlines