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- Is this dating?
- Debut Authors-path to publication survey results
- Don't send that query
- I'm assuming most of you, fine people, have other jobs?
- Writing A Tape Recording?
- Things NOT to do in the opening paragraph(s)?
- Dramatic beginnings nah or yah!!!!!!
- Bouncing an idea off you (POV)
- problem...but how big?
- Author's Message: what's yours? how do you approach it?
- Multiple protagonists and prologues
- Would this fly?
- Giving your characters virtues?
- Tips on writing a good dialogue?
- How much do you expect your readers to know?
- Too Much or Not Enough Imagery?
- Showing the passage of time
- The Dead Writer Society just got a new member...
- Format Question: Multiple Fonts
- MC thinks too much?
- An interview with Jonathon Galassi
- Sabotaging your story for a good ending
- Paperback or Hard, as writer
- Do you know how your novel is going to end?
- Knowing The Plot, But Characters Don't Want To Play . . .
- Which is better- if the publisher takes longer or shorter to answer?
- AUSSIE SLANG (STRINE)
- The chapter that wouldn't end
- Genre question...
- help with telephone dialog?
- overusing a person's name?
- The Secret to Geek Devotion
- What books inspire your work?
- Writing techniques
- another word for 'quotes'
- Not a Prologue, but...
- When do the editors come in?
- Hooks from your favorite novels
- "Journal" Novels
- The book you wanted to love, but couldn't.
- Writing then reading books...
- beyond chapters - dividing by "parts"
- How do you know your storyline is any good?
- How to tell if it's worth rewriting a manuscript
- Ever dreamed your plot into focus?
- Learning new words
- Free copies
- Please help with my adverbitis...
- POV and Reliability
- Publicity?
- Thanks for the editing advice!
- what is the general path taken for an aspiring writer/novelist academically?
- Second thoughts?
- Character Doubts
- Entering contests
- Book Trailers...
- The book you wish you could write, but can't...
- Waiting feels like the Twilight Zone
- How much happens in your 1st 50 pages/3 chapters?
- How many characters is too much in your novel?
- What's the word?
- James Patterson: Success Story
- Liza Dawson Associates
- Writerus interruptus
- Woe is me! It's all my fault!
- Novel length
- Stupidest reasons you won't read a book.
- What genres would you represent if you were a literary agent?
- Entering ABNA?
- Publishing is doomed?
- Crutch Words
- Help me cure my gerund addiction
- Which do you prefer, critical success or commercial success?
- Two POVs
- Does being a parent influence your writing?
- Examples Of A Forum Discussion In A Novel?
- On Point of View and Number of Characters
- When does editing become too much?
- Something I have noticed...
- Cutting/Adding Progress Thread
- Ghostwriter To Use or Not To Use
- Overwhelmed...
- IS MANUSCRIPT ASSESSMENTS MONEY WELL SPENT?
- Fellow strugglers.
- Describing the action as it happens, how it feels. How do you do it?
- What happened to the guy who started this story?
- Analyzing the end of Les Miserables
- Do you think a novel can be good without an insight into the characters' minds?
- Your novel genre
- Prologues
- Selling sequels.
- A question about arrangement
- How similar exactly can a tribute be?
- A Question on Third Person Limited...
- A legal question
- The growing pains...
- Just getting started...and writer's groups?
- Great cover art
- What music do you listen to while writing?
- The Pen Name
- The villain in your story.
- What Your Characters Look Like
- Sale records
- Bold and/or all CAPITALS - how to format?
- Setting the time and location in scenes and chapters
- Varied length and numbered scenes
- Answering important questions in your plot...
- Interior monologue for disgusting language (contains offensive language)
- Poll - Wing it or Outline?
- Defining Basic Terms
- Text messaging dialogue
- Now what?[outline]
- Interior monologue annoying?
- Deus Ex Machina?
- Recommended Reading
- Would publication in a foreign language count towards the UK/US market?
- When do you choose your title, before or after?
- Conflict on Every Page
- Taking my manuscript to...
- Ready for publication?
- Conferences?
- How important is....
- The growth of a character.
- Novellas?
- I heart Smiley Faces
- I'm so humbled...
- How important are writers?
- IPad-Amazon and what's going on
- Novels that can't beat their movies.
- Where would you like to go to research your novel?
- Format question
- "And then he filled her in on all that had happened..."
- Adding new character(s) when you are almost done?
- First chapter and major story conflict
- Dream Sequences in Novels
- Writing Gimmicks
- Losing steam midway
- Novels' Suggestion Box
- Starting a novel with the name of the protagonist
- Too late to start using a pen name?
- How is your main character unusual?
- How Long Are Your Novels?
- stuck on introducing the plot, which option would be more appealing?
- Next Novel Contest: A Hint
- Writing in third person past? Any Tips?
- 3-Day Novel Contest
- E-Rights & The Open Market
- Mary Sue
- Listening to your work...
- Sample Chapters and the like
- The evil protagonist
- Betas Who Absolutely Hate Your Book
- What's going on with Crime/Thriller books?
- Bondage for Beginners or What's in a Title?
- Struggling to write to plan....
- Prologue with Sample Chapters?
- Consistent voice in 3rd person limited novels
- Why do you write what you write?
- Brilliant article on novel writing
- Multi-genre novelists
- When do you write
- Who here do you think will write a break out novel?
- Describing Fictional Animals
- A NOVEL CONTEST: The Elevator Pitch
- The best compliment you've ever received
- What would you sacrifice to be a full-time novelist?
- Puzzle pieces at the midpoint
- Writing out of order
- Point of View? What's Preferred?
- Outlining/Storyboard software?
- Famous organizations and famous people
- Hung up on flashbacks
- Re-writing prior to publication?
- Questions about resubmitting
- When time passes by
- "Political Fiction" as a Genre?
- Had the most unusual writers dream last night...
- so tell me I'm not the only one...
- The Poisonwood Bible & the how come?
- How Many Queries Did it Take?
- First person vs third person
- When characters read/write/type
- New genre "heading?"
- Writing about paedophiles
- Just a pleasant thought....
- A novel idea: Cell phone books
- A Good - "Bad" - Opening
- Skeptical about Stephen King's advice
- 1st person mixed w/ 3rd person
- Funding & Writing
- How to make a "bad" opening good?
- Merged "Murder your darlings" discussion
- unholy of unholies?
- "Mixing" or Plagiarism?
- Should I Persue Writing?
- sense of loss...
- What do you do when you lose your work?
- Resources on Characters
- Dark Romance?
- Agents For Who?
- Conference recommendations?
- [Pause For Breath]
- What's my Genre?
- Any tips for first time real novel? (with the beginning)
- so, my beta can't read my novel...
- I've found my perfect title and it's taken
- word length
- Looking for some Advice
- Way to go James Patterson!
- Making a short story into a novel?
- Charisma
- Whats in a cover letter?
- Question
- Can I title a novel "Memoirs of...?"
- You know who I hate?
- multiple project
- Carrot On the End of the Stick
- Tips on becoming a better writer?
- Bestsellers
- Need Moral Support
- Advanced topics: Openings - Lightbreaker, by Mark Teppo
- Big problems with prologue.
- Clumsy Fight Scene?
- Novel Idea Notebook?
- Query first
- Using a real self-improvement plan in a novel
- Dreams made into Novels?
- To rewrite or not, and what does it mean.
- 'Ten rules for writing fiction' (The Guardian newspaper)
- First (Professional) Novel Survey
- What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
- Ways to tell stories - HELP?
- Rhythm - a discussion
- Debut Novelists
- OVER-EDITING
- Town Names
- Double-Querying an agency
- Contradictions -- Pacing or Hook?
- What makes a book a classic?
- Things to Watch Out for While Editing
- All in the same universe.
- What's the difference between query letter and synopsis
- Climax
- So you're writing a sequel
- In Synopsis Hell
- Foreign rights and translations
- Reminder to Canadian Authors
- Website help??
- Openings: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- Who do you write for?
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