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- Can I use a Anne Boleyn's execution speech in my new play?
- Sci-Fantasy?!
- planning a story ahead
- Introducing multiple characters
- Fictional characters writing about fishing
- Do you consider the market before you write?
- Are the golden oldies still top favourite bestsellers?
- Fear of failure!
- How to write a physical transformation?
- Musical Script too Cliche?
- what to do when you are just done writing a novel?:P
- Space Empire help
- Is this a story idea that would interest you?
- Breaks? What, why, and for how long?
- Using a language other than English in your novel.. good idea?
- Is typing mindless things creativity?
- Editing help?
- Saturation of thoughts ?
- Scripts - Describing action
- How do you keep going?
- Chapter size
- How can you describe the emotion of a man on his death bed?
- Formatting dialogue
- Looking for another word
- I need advice on writing dialogue
- Anybody had a go at Sci-fi?
- Language
- Using One Tense Only
- 'Not my thing' kind of a feeling??
- Where to list other language
- How to describe weapon-fighting
- Short stories vs Novels
- What pace would you use for a short story?
- How do people feel about using flashbacks?
- African culture
- Which attracts the readers the most?
- Scared of Starting....
- A British Character?
- Boring Starts... on purpose?
- How to get going??
- Scene and Sequels
- Would this style be ripping off of Jeff Shaara?
- Planning out the content of a piece of writing.
- How would you feel?
- short story to a novel
- Problem with Backstory
- A question about the use of 'nor.'
- Dealing with people who think your dreams of writing are unrealistic.
- Fight terminology
- New to writing.... But I have an idea...
- Interesting travel deserves interesting writing
- Any tips on writing short stories?
- Stole Writings
- Reasonable Asking Salary for a Small Company?
- Writing a Plot Line for a Mystery
- Fiction vs non-fiction?
- Importance of "Sense of Place" to you
- Changing characters in the 3RD person?
- Rough character ideas, but lack plot or setting
- English Information / American Information Exchange.
- A Writing Revelation / Musing / Rants / Goals
- Sudden Jolts
- Spazms
- Multiple characters in one body. Thoughts? Examples?
- Need short story advice
- How to deal with long information dumps
- What's in a name? - A dilemma.
- Character power too powerful?
- How to Write about Characters Past Lives?
- Torn between three topics
- What does your rough draft look like?
- Chapter length variation
- what is a prologue?
- I think I'm a shitty writer...
- How to Write a Repeating Scene that Changes Slightly?
- To the novel writers....
- Sad Ending or Happy Ending?
- What is the best way to seamlessly write a characters appearance?
- Need discipline and structure to churn this book out.
- The Wall?
- Revise as you go? Or wait till end of 1st draft?
- Naming your book
- Present Tense in 3rd Person?
- Is it necessary to let the reader know exactly where the story takes place?
- Conundrum
- Log line for a story
- Need some advice with a single phrase
- What tense do you write in best?
- Help I lost a chunk of story need help retreiving
- Help! essay advice neede!
- Can over-editing render your story bland?
- I Am New Here And I Really Need Some Help
- Can I shapel online profiles for a novel, using some info found on the internet
- How should I construct the chapters? Would it be bad if I did it this way?
- Want to write another book....but where to begin?? :S
- Nazi Soldiers?
- The flashback: How much is too much?
- Need help with a fight scene
- writing about a place you've never been to?
- What defines a psychological thriller?
- Writing Programs
- I have trouble as a new writer, can anyone help?
- Writing out of order
- I'm struggling with the prologue to my new novel
- Pop culture references
- Hit a wall
- Can someone list me the adj. of speaking like he said sacastically, etc.
- What is plain ole fiction called?
- How do you organize your notes?
- Advice please on writing style.
- Downhill slide after the first draft high...
- Presentation of Diary entries: Dare I ask for more advice?
- Cookbook ethics: what constitutes plagiarism when publishing recipes?
- Writing my first short story. How long should it be?
- Radio interview
- How long to wait before introducing conflict?
- How soon do I introduce the love interest?
- Dialogue punctuation help?
- Book of Short Stories
- What's it like in a public high school?
- How to receive input?
- Question on Plagiarism
- describing smiles and frowns
- Terrible first drafts
- Reading while writing a novel
- The Details of Historical Fiction
- Initial conflict
- How Many Words In A Decent Fiction Chapter?
- Formatting Manuscripts
- First Timer
- Books on Creative Writing
- Humor Essay Formatting
- Struggling with POV
- POV Choices, Which One is most effective?
- How Side-Tracked Do You Get? (if Writing Is Not Your Primary Job)
- Descriptiveness
- Star Trek Fan Fiction (STA)
- Animal Research - Who would they be?
- Screen Writing for outlining?
- Need help replacing a word.
- showing character changing
- How do you back up your files?
- Chapters
- New Story Topic Idea
- Tired of Rewriting
- Do you foreshadow, or completely surprise the reader?
- Sci-fi fantasy writing first person POV or 3rd person?
- Help naming sci-fi weapons platform
- The Anti-Writers Career...lol
- Farmboy to Hero (Cliche or No?)
- Creative writing classes
- Help with this dialogue
- Art vs Marketability
- Which Narrative is Better
- writing too much dialogue
- The Art of Storytelling, where did it go?
- would 8 mcs be too many?
- Reading while building writing
- Vulgarity?
- Doing inner monologues
- How does one become a guardian angel?
- A question about using pop culture references in a book
- Traditional Fantasy
- Exercises in subtetly
- How much do you write every day?
- citing sources in a letter
- An ongoing issue I can't shake...
- Creating dialogs and funny moments
- What are your thoughts on Mixing History and Fantasy?
- A sudden occurence
- Which book helped your writing the most?
- Finding the right tone for a fantasy novel
- Avoiding cliche and predictibility?
- Just Starting Out
- Can your characters speak TOO realistically?
- Do you "Night Write"
- I need a very advanced sci-fi antagonist. . .
- Short story v/s Novel: The Approach ?
- New to writing - I need help with a single flashback narrative
- presentation advice needed..
- Improving my editing skills
- does editing damage your natural prose?
- Does anyone else lose confidence when they see a good movie/book/game?
- Giving up a story
- Not sure if I should write a short story or a novel
- Does everything you write have to be genius or compelling?
- What about second person?
- Does time and experience improve your first drafts?
- Writing a Novel from Beginning to End
- Thriller problem...
- Trying to find that right word
- Is the audience a priority?
- Tone and Mood
- Only and Idea
- Finished Rough Draft, Starting Novel #2?
- How do you properly balance a bitter MC?
- Point of View Shifts
- The Extent of Plagiarism?
- I have writer's block, not in the normal way, and would like some advice?
- How do you motivate yourself to write?
- How to edit
- Really, really stressed...Any tips?
- Need help using bracketing commas with Parenthetical elemets
- What POV to use
- How to imply a passage of time
- Free Verse vs. prose. what's the difference?
- Writing a book based on your situation?
- What do you find to be THE MOST IMPORTANT thing for YOUR stories?
- Placing email in fiction
- The importance of HOW in a short story?
- Using Brand Names in novels
- Serial novel or not?
- Has this been done? (it probably has but point me towards it...)
- A weird case of writers block?
- What constitutes a short story.
- how would one make the death of the main character REALLY sad?
- Kerouac List of Essentials
- Drive to Write
- Okay, randomness question.
- Freelance writing classes? Anyone know of reputable ones?
- Is it worth it to join a writers' association?
- Problem moving a scene forward
- I'm at a bit of a loss.
- Looking to Develop a Series
- A Story About Cats- Best Audience?
- Feedback in order
- Finding motivation
- First Reader/Editing partner's
- Feedback wanted for a charity book project
- organizing and revising large quantities of free writing
- Can my story be too complex ?
- Unsure if I am approaching the format for my story the right way?
- Writing stories like others writers.
- What was this euphoria?
- Writing long stories
- Copyright Infringement
- Embarrassed?
- Showing others your work.
- Is this a common/overused format?
- Novel Writing Courses (Distance or London)
- Contents page
- I keep using the same words when writing about the movement of a character.
- Images & Writing - I am interested & need help.
- Outlining in your head before or just going with the flow for a free write?
- copywriting
- Ending a novel but opening it up for the next book
- Your relationship with your characters?
- How do you come up with good subplots?
- Is Complexity, and a lot of small Detail in the descriptions in a Novel a good thing?
- How do you squeeze in writing when you have a lot of work to do?
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