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  1. Ten Most Wanted
  2. Ech. Scenes vs Chapters. Info dump vs roll out
  3. Thinking in third person, past tense
  4. Background advice - long post, sorry!
  5. Skipping ahead in time.
  6. The Gender of your latest MC?
  7. Stubborn, long winded story
  8. PR via lawsuit: unknown sues TWILIGHT author for plagiarism
  9. How to slow down
  10. Need Help w/ Dialogue
  11. Reader Suspense or Just Frustrating?
  12. Summarize or Suck
  13. Knowing Our Characters
  14. prologue?
  15. Writers on writing
  16. ARGH!!! What GENRE AM I!!!!!!!
  17. Cast of Characters
  18. Burroughs Fans? Naked Lunch 50th ANNIVERSARY
  19. summary before query?
  20. Battle of the Sexes
  21. Is it wrong?
  22. Describe your own crap? (that's crap writing, not the other stuff)
  23. When to use Summary in fiction
  24. So, What Would It Take . . . . .
  25. Blocks of time not from your characters POV...
  26. The Importance of POV and Its Consistency?
  27. Unnecessary Characters
  28. How Clean Is Your First Draft?
  29. A couple of Agent Questions
  30. what makes a great twist
  31. Casting Your Novel
  32. Rough sentences
  33. What Sub-Genre Is My Novel?
  34. Describe your current feeling of your WIP
  35. When the Inevitable Happens . . .
  36. A need to do more
  37. One have to die?
  38. Can you Quote another piece of Literature?
  39. When filtering (and other "rule breaks") are appropriate
  40. Can you switch from third person limited to omniscient and back in different chapters
  41. Have you Seen...
  42. How much of an ending do you really need?
  43. How do you people know how many words you want your end product to have?
  44. Authonomy
  45. Query Letter Question
  46. Chapters, Parts / What's The Difference Between Them?
  47. Choreographing Battle Scenes
  48. Small Presses - Your Top 5?
  49. Character Models
  50. Posting free eBook novels online?
  51. Characters with secrets
  52. The 'Author's Note' feature
  53. When to introduce the antagonist
  54. What makes a novel a novel?
  55. Agent Statistics
  56. What is your revision process like?
  57. Too late for a new character?
  58. Stretching out action
  59. Should I edit as I type? (or: Handwritten Novel Woes)
  60. Concept of a series
  61. Beta Readers
  62. Recasting a character
  63. Another word count question
  64. "Mock" Book Trailers
  65. Comic Characters Becoming Serious
  66. Who do you discuss your ideas for novels with?
  67. Character development
  68. Is it better to claim a genre, or be "mainstream" ?
  69. Stealing from yourself and trunking old works as a consequence
  70. Have you ever found something you wrote in another work?
  71. How much dialogue is too much?
  72. Prologues
  73. When Your Baby Becomes A Trunk Novel
  74. Shortest and longest time frames in a book
  75. Writing the Everyman - what if you want the greatest # of folks to identify with MC
  76. How to achieve a sense of time passing
  77. Clothing?
  78. A Novel Contest
  79. Am I being scammed?
  80. Is It Possible For Your Writing Style To Revert?
  81. Why do people love the stuff you didn't think was so great?
  82. Slang
  83. An Issue With Time
  84. introducing a character
  85. Cold Case and Flashbacks
  86. Will the real (insert pen name) please stand up. No, seriously.
  87. What's hard about writing sex?
  88. The Genders of your Fiction MC's?
  89. Chapter word count
  90. MC that's a writer
  91. Help out a newbie!!!
  92. First Person Novel
  93. JUMPING THE GENRE SHIP AND STRUGGLING
  94. How much would a Ghost Writer would make in Canada?
  95. Quoting song lyrics with credit?
  96. Feeling guilty for torturing my character!
  97. starting the first pages with a backstory?
  98. Any such thing as a good adverb?
  99. Timing Troubles
  100. Writing an attack from a different POV.
  101. I have a new muse!
  102. examples of showing not telling please!
  103. "I didn't know that" department
  104. write about what you know or don't know?
  105. Résumé w/ms request
  106. When should you read the classics?
  107. Current taboos...
  108. Song Lyrics/title for Book Title
  109. Rewriting too much?
  110. Assigning the reader a character
  111. good idea or not?
  112. POV Caper-Heist novel
  113. This doesn't feel right. (Passage of time in my story)
  114. How to Format A Partial
  115. Sequel or New Novel?
  116. Dialogue
  117. Online Writing?
  118. Time Stamps on E-mail Queries
  119. Epilogue or no epilogue?
  120. How to do "tell" well?
  121. Comedy or drama or dramedy?
  122. Genre Identity Crisis, Anyone?
  123. What's a good word-count for a chapter?
  124. Still fighting the slump... An idea to get back at it..
  125. How long to wait?
  126. Do you write to write or write to publish?
  127. appropriate title
  128. Revision process with an agent
  129. Which way would you rather read this?
  130. Showing instead of telling with facial expressions
  131. Querying the first book of a prospective series
  132. Selling different language rights?
  133. so long, fare well...
  134. Acknowledging the Dysfunction
  135. WIP, "Angels/Ecstacy"
  136. when autographing your book. . .
  137. Would this be a bad idea?
  138. First Person + Third, or Third Person with multiple perspectives?
  139. Voice recognition software.
  140. Have you ever seen "to be continued" at the end of a novel?
  141. Have a story but don't know how to lay it out!
  142. Milestones
  143. Chapters...
  144. Bummed out.
  145. Does anyone write long hand anymore?
  146. How do you know you have talent as a writer?
  147. did I just plagiarize a novel?
  148. Changing tense near end of book?
  149. Which famous authors have you only recently read?
  150. How does one make an effective unreliable narrator?
  151. Writing in Spanish, publishing in English
  152. Exclusivity?
  153. PROBLEM!
  154. Proofreading Query Letter
  155. Close 3rd person
  156. No time to write...
  157. sequel dilemma
  158. The Dreaded Author Bio
  159. The Odious Synopsis!
  160. Bad Writing - or Bad Editing?
  161. What are "post-modern storytelling techniques"?
  162. Miracle cure?
  163. Has this ever happen to you?
  164. Whta's the name of this book?
  165. Dreams: A source of creation or destruction?
  166. I ... I think I need to jettison the 40+K words I've already written..
  167. Is using an abstract plot device from something else still plagiarism?
  168. Has anyone used the Snowflake Method?
  169. If it is going to be a form rejection letter -- it better be a nice one!
  170. Exclusive Read?
  171. Books you've read twice or more
  172. Things You Want To Write, But Never Will
  173. Line Break
  174. You're the Agent - Round 1 (Queries)
  175. Are two (or more) minds better than one?
  176. Pondering The Gunslinger, by Stephen King...
  177. Putting a project to death
  178. Stupid copyright question.
  179. Most useful writing publication/website
  180. when false starts find their way to the finish...
  181. The good, the bad and the mudbubbly
  182. Is changing the names enough?
  183. Probably a stupid question
  184. Good form?
  185. To quote or not to quote...
  186. Alternative jobs for characters
  187. Dialog as Exposition
  188. Experimenting with narrative voice?
  189. If your MC commits suicide at the end of the story, does it make sense to...
  190. The Hobbit. Can you believe this bad story was a hit?
  191. so how do YOU write novels?
  192. Religious fanaticism
  193. To swear or not to swear
  194. My line?
  195. Significant Others (and their undying support)
  196. News from the southern front
  197. Will a foot in the door help sell old projects?
  198. Anyone have trouble finishing a novel?
  199. how do you build a character?
  200. Characters and Viewpoint - ORS
  201. What are you reading right now?
  202. Main character is comic book character?
  203. Editing, how do you do it?
  204. Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers -- What genre?
  205. Anyone used Authonomy.com?
  206. Traumatizing your hero
  207. How much planning do you do?
  208. Literary turn-off's
  209. How do you decide where to put the first sex scene?
  210. What DO you like to read in a book?
  211. How to Prevent Dragging Middle
  212. WHY do you read what you read?
  213. Is this like paralax or something?
  214. Didn't see it coming!
  215. Cross-gender MCs
  216. Categorizing a novel in a query: good or bad?
  217. Read what you write and write what you read?
  218. Kicking out crutches
  219. What is the most painful part of creating a novel for you?
  220. Once a novel gets picked up by a publisher, editing?
  221. How far is TOO far for sex scenes?
  222. Spin off of building char thread - Fleshing out chars in rewrite.
  223. Coming up short on word count
  224. What's the worst thing you've done to your characters?
  225. Boosting Confidence
  226. Novels=trading books?
  227. Novel Approach: Inside Out or Outside In?
  228. Next in the Series
  229. "Trunk manuscript" into Published Novel?
  230. Head hopping in first person?
  231. Quick Reads
  232. Setting a novel somewhere you've never been
  233. What to do when the back story is more interesting than the main plot?
  234. Selective audience?
  235. Introducing a key character really late in the story. Okay or not?
  236. What genre(s) do you like to write in?
  237. Whose vision is it?
  238. Novel 4 published first?
  239. Any (climax) ideas on what to write a short story/novel about?
  240. book format software?
  241. Things that will date your work?
  242. What's an editor anyway?
  243. So, I have this friend...
  244. Fantasy Market: Is it really that hard to get into?
  245. Reader Expectations v. Character Motivations
  246. Writing
  247. Tense
  248. How does your writing sound?
  249. Indistinct gender
  250. Novels, messge to Cathy C and friends