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  1. Are authors way too critical of other authors?
  2. OPENINGS: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
  3. What Tops Your List?
  4. Anyone else get stuck...
  5. Bulwer-Lytton Contest Results
  6. How much time do you think it takes to gain noticeable popularity?
  7. "20 Surefire Tips to Get Your Book Published"
  8. Writing a Blockbuster - The Formula!
  9. How books are made
  10. OPENINGS: More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
  11. Planning a novel-Follow any method?
  12. Article re Article about Writing Advice
  13. Openings: GRR Martin's A Game of Thrones
  14. Revising Your Novel
  15. Will big name novelists defect more?
  16. Rewrites, Critiques & Substantive Editing
  17. Is this considered a 'novel'?
  18. Can a good novel loiter?
  19. Outlining
  20. Etiquette Question about Submissions
  21. The Interlude
  22. Is the Comic (Humor) Novel Dead?
  23. Crisis of POV.
  24. Shifting Gears
  25. Writing Death
  26. Countries = Villains?
  27. Outlines For Publishers
  28. Tense
  29. Addicted to reading?
  30. Should I Take Revenge?
  31. Idiotic Spelling Errors :D
  32. Use of person(s), living or dead. Fictionland.
  33. Fictionalize a real place?
  34. Book Recommendations
  35. Writing software you like.
  36. Format Q - location and time headings
  37. Multiple Book Deals
  38. A Story Within A Story
  39. Would this Work?
  40. A critical look at novel openings
  41. Killing Your Darlings
  42. Need help - Trends?
  43. Not reading what doesn't interest you - and the purpose of the blurb
  44. Having trouble getting past the planning stages...
  45. What he didn't yet know . . .
  46. If you're a U.S citizen with a foreign publisher how do taxes work?
  47. writing a war novel without having battles become repetitive?
  48. Too Complex?
  49. Time gaps between scenes
  50. Anyone Else Ever Experience This?
  51. normalcy?
  52. Directing the Plot away from Taboos
  53. A creativity fix.
  54. Novel Disaster!!!!
  55. The Sickness
  56. What (inside a book) will make you put down a book?
  57. Male Name for a Female Character. Good or Bad?
  58. I Hate Titles!
  59. Dream Sequence to Reveal Character
  60. General Help
  61. The SP, tt42, and whoever else feels like participating amocking thread
  62. 2 boys + 2 girls
  63. Third person limited POV for different characters
  64. Uh, just something in my eye...
  65. Question about (non) foreshadowing.
  66. What is the best way to save your work?
  67. Good hard-boiled dick novel
  68. What separates a Science Fiction Novel from Standard Fiction?
  69. Bad Novel = Bad Agent?
  70. Transcribing time
  71. From journalist to novelist
  72. the want to write VS the want to be read
  73. Not sure where to start my story
  74. Endings
  75. Fiction Series?
  76. What to do when your Beta's suggest a sequel?
  77. How long is too long for a Novel
  78. I do want it to be a series. So how do I write it?
  79. Having Issues With Research
  80. I Can't Write Endings!
  81. Question on different POV
  82. Editor or Agent
  83. Descriptions - how much is too much?
  84. Braeking Teh Rulez
  85. Writing and Parenting
  86. I finished my first novel...
  87. Are maps a dumb idea?
  88. I queried too early...what now?
  89. How Long Does It Usually Take You To Finish One Novel?
  90. Article on Writer-Editor Relationship
  91. Is it normal to become discouraged by a critique?
  92. Bouncing ideas off agent
  93. Writer's voice - the eleventh option
  94. Help with definitions
  95. Changing POV
  96. Am I the only one who freaks out over agents and getting published?
  97. Has a character ever surprised you while writing?
  98. Hardcover or Paperback?
  99. The problem with a future book
  100. Writing in multiple POV
  101. Slushpile Success
  102. To cut or not to cut?
  103. When does a novel become un-salvageable?
  104. Cliches
  105. Are there parts of your novel that you haven't put as much effort into as others?
  106. Prologues , yes or no
  107. Your Most Random Searches
  108. Describing skin tones and ethnicities...
  109. Line between YA and mainstream?
  110. Internet Novels (w/ video?)
  111. Motivation, Difficulty, and the Rashomon.
  112. Novel Survey Results
  113. A question to published AWers
  114. Tips on Rewrites?
  115. What Genre am I writing?
  116. Agencies and submission
  117. Loneliness and writing
  118. Hilarious and pretty sad...
  119. Traveling sequences, character development, and...
  120. Epic
  121. Question for published authors....
  122. Self-censorship
  123. Time Jumping, Does it Annoy You?
  124. Do the editors and agents want to know how it ends?
  125. Do I need to market?
  126. Differences between first and subsequent novels
  127. why did these agents say this?
  128. Influential Books....
  129. How's 2010 working out for you so far?
  130. What's The Best Book You've Ever Read?
  131. any tips on showing-not-telling and how not to rush while writing?
  132. Rules on Quoting
  133. Plagiarism vs Inspiration
  134. Published novelists: platform yes or no?
  135. Sending in Sample Pages to Agents
  136. The Dreaded Recap
  137. Does Voice Translate Well?
  138. need an opinion please!
  139. How good does your writing have to be to be publishable?
  140. Flashback tenses
  141. Kill em ,or write em out?
  142. Tricky question. Application of race in 1955.
  143. Quick opinion on Chapter word count
  144. Possible to have too much conflict?
  145. Stephen Leather's writing guide
  146. Question about re-querying same agent with different project?
  147. Opinion, please. Did I Do The Right Thing By...?
  148. Lyrics in a manuscript?
  149. inspiration.
  150. help (writers conference / overcoming nerves)
  151. I love it when the pieces fall into place.
  152. Proposal for a novel
  153. Time Issues
  154. revisions for one agent, what if another offers?
  155. Chapter arrangement - character setup
  156. Second Book Curse
  157. Argh. Staring at 200 pages, considering rewrite...
  158. Story arc problems
  159. Male vs. Female MCs
  160. Melding two novels together
  161. Feedback from partial rejection
  162. Synopsis logistics
  163. novel set in a small town--authenticity vs fiction
  164. Link to Jerome T. Burrows interview
  165. Need a password
  166. Do you write lineally?
  167. Believability
  168. Where are the Anecdotes?
  169. Writing cross-gender
  170. Do you go through withdrawal when you don't write?
  171. Larger-Than-Life Characters
  172. Threads removed
  173. Why Don't Writers Snap?
  174. Some help with my new novel?=)
  175. WHICH IS HARDER
  176. Preparing months ahead to make sure nothing will interrupt the new WIP??
  177. Were you prepared for your first book deal?
  178. novels with criminal underground?
  179. What is the best novel-writing software?
  180. CURIOUS
  181. Stupid mistakes you've made when querying and submitting
  182. Okay. Has novel writing software made the difference for anyone here?
  183. need help picking between two endings
  184. Submitting Book After Agent Passes
  185. My main character has had a sex change operation
  186. Bumping Off Redshirts
  187. Am I the only one whose novel comes to them in dialog?
  188. Am I the only weirdo out there that does this?
  189. Bumping off a Million Red Shirts
  190. The Significance of Insignificance
  191. The Epilogue
  192. Cold Open Intro
  193. Rogue Warrior & Indianpolis
  194. Agents want writers that are internet savvy
  195. If you believe human nature is fundamentally flawed...
  196. second novel blues--preoccupied with "significance"
  197. Wonderful Resource: Google Books
  198. Music
  199. The Great My-Debut-Book-Is-Out Freakout
  200. Do you always describe your MC?
  201. How do you consciously immerse yourself in your writing?
  202. Not being able to finish a novel
  203. Inspiration
  204. Writing in first person
  205. Make My Novel Longer
  206. Is it worth it? Why bother?
  207. What genre is this book?
  208. The Way To Write Novels. A Question.
  209. Writing a novel around all that silly "life" crap.
  210. Don't you just LOVE it when...
  211. Community which tracks newly published writing theory books?
  212. writing the main character as different ethnic group than self?
  213. how do you choose chapter breaks?
  214. POV for debut novel
  215. Breaking the rules
  216. The 200-250 words thread!
  217. Rewriting, reframing, and woe is me
  218. "Showing" emotions without being ridiculous
  219. Title Question
  220. Query VS Cover Letter
  221. Melodrama
  222. Good name for a super weapon and which super weapon idea do you prefer?
  223. Relocating your misplaced inspiration. How?
  224. 3rd person limited advice
  225. Just some overall career advice I suppose?
  226. Good exposition
  227. Advice on interior dialogue
  228. Query Queasy
  229. Your Opinion on Multiple Characters in First-Person...
  230. Keeping track, H-E-L-P !!!!!!!!!!
  231. scene transitions
  232. Top historian review kerfuffle leads to legal threats....
  233. First person concerns
  234. Voice concerns
  235. A where to start quandry...
  236. How THE RULES Came Into Being - A Fairy Tale
  237. Characters sounding the same
  238. Is anyone else as lackadaisical about names as me?
  239. Writing from two POVs
  240. Game Proposal
  241. Is a romance expected?
  242. Does This Sound Like A Good Idea?
  243. Posting work: Trouble with publication?
  244. quoting & artwork
  245. An Exercise in Voice
  246. writing on the fly - tips?
  247. Symbolism
  248. POV breakdown question
  249. Omniscient POV; the Pratchett way.
  250. Anyone up for a (civil) gender war?