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- what to put in, what to keep out?
- Word usage
- Do you talk to yourself
- Nightmare!
- When an idea goes stale...
- Is research necessary, no matter what?
- POV's
- Not Being Another 'Lord Of The Rings'
- Writing Long Dialogue
- on how to aviod plagiarism when rewritting articles to use in a book?
- Stating the emotion or suggesting it?
- Metaphors
- Ahhhhh! Too many ideas swimming around, why can't I write faster!
- Interweaving dialogue and exposition/description into a story
- Help?!?!?
- Sentence length and content.
- Showing vs. Telling. How times have changed.
- Fantasy terms...
- Finding A Title
- Character in the narrative
- How much should I focus on main character
- The three laws of engineering
- Structure and logic as enemies.
- Leaving some for the readers' imagination
- Hooking an Audience
- Books to help your writing...
- the use of a real event in a story
- Would this be a bad idea?
- What makes a literary work interesting?
- Rhetorical Questions
- Overcoming the Writing
- Weird paragraph
- Omnipotent Narrative - Pros and Cons
- Well if this isn't annoying...
- Moving from one scene to another
- Using a song title for a book
- No inspiration after first novel...
- More "magical" sounding name
- a small question
- Argument Writing
- Case Studies
- How to improve your paragraphs/sentences
- please help
- MS Word Printing Technique
- 20,000 word hump.
- A question for the thinkers: how/where do you learn creativity?
- Plagiarism
- Inhibition and fiction
- about showing and telling
- Map for Fantasy World
- Do you put all other interests aside to write?
- Help getting past chapter 1
- Suspension of Disbelief is a &#$#!
- Should fiction be exciting?
- Fantasy, and making the story feel less modern
- a gift for a new writer
- what is a "good" idea?
- The Pogo Stick novel – Boingg! Boingg! Boingg! Boingg!
- backwards puncuation
- Should the reader know?
- Real addresses
- Can I get some input?
- Writing without using introspection
- organization
- Just started revising
- A New Beginning
- You need to be passionate about your writing?? What a load of rubbish!
- First Publication Rights
- Another question on POV. Multiple ones.
- Orson Scott Card on wordcounts
- Are Character Last Names Mandatory?
- My biggest problem is action...
- The Difference a Laptop Makes...
- Balancing Chapters
- I want to write articles. What to study?
- Suggestions Needed
- Feel-good endings vs mixed endings
- when to write the subplot
- Ok, here’s a bit more on the passion thing.
- Indecision about quality
- The most important part of a genre
- History of life in your science fiction story.
- Word count for fiction novels
- Looking for Ideas
- Using a copyrighted name in a book
- What is an "advance"?
- Weak ways to start a novel
- Romancing Character Issues
- Fantasy - Intro to races
- Questions about POV
- Will you help me edit and improve my essay?
- Crime Thriller
- Every single thing...
- Perspective change
- Dramatica or Power Writer?
- Cheating with POV
- How long do you put your draft aside for before a rewrite?
- Conflict in a novel.
- I'm all tense about tense.
- LaTeX?
- Deliberate Backtracking?
- Memorable
- A Personal Revelation! Does it apply to you, too?
- Theme
- Using the Chapter Name to name a Location
- A couple of issues
- First person vs third person limited
- Is telling really so bad?
- Epicness
- Info dump?
- changing perspectives within a story
- How do you write foreign words in plural?
- Finding an editor for short stories or contest entries
- Delaying Naming a Character
- Narrator Unknown!
- Which Bibliographic Style - APS, MLA, or Chicago?
- Story naming question
- Conflicts with "shy" main character
- Politically Incorrect Terms in a Children's Novel
- How not to be philosopher
- Leaving and Going Back
- Chick-Lit. The good, the bad, and the downright awful.
- Awkward question :/
- First novel
- Font changes - acceptable in short bursts or not?
- how do you get out of the box?
- Charactersitics of dress
- Writing Longhand....and then typing it up.
- Help finding information
- boys and girls
- Microsoft word guide
- Finding and Creating Names for Characters
- Why third person omniscient isn't common
- Would this count as mind reading?
- Eye Colour
- Automatic backup/versioning
- A Spider Web Plot?
- Comedy Writing
- Unable To Define A Genre...
- I can't make decent fantasy names.
- Unresolved threads
- Descriptive writing
- Is this an info dump?
- Distracted by depression
- Imageries using things the protagonist doesn't know
- First and Second Drafts
- Brainstorming.
- novel brainstorming questions
- Third person limited means to start from inside out
- Lmc's Believe it or NOT!
- lost inspiration
- Blogging your work
- A Hero
- Writing/Research alternation difficulty
- Quit my job and gonna write!
- Poetry Line Breaks
- What is YOUR genre?
- Third Act Bores Me
- Editing as you go or completing a first draft, then editing
- Scanning to Reduce Home Office Paper
- Short "Story" Structure
- Using Phrases from Other Books/Movies. Plagerism?
- Roger!
- Avoiding copyright infringement
- The Fear Of Manuscript Length
- Major difficulty writing in First Person
- Coming Up With Names
- How to answer: "What is your story about?"
- I can never FINISH anything
- Critique groups
- Dissappointed reaction to my ideas once put on paper. Anyone else?
- Breaking the Hiatus
- Excessive Length?
- Descriptive Realism
- How to forge an ending?
- Fundamentalist Technique?
- Using anecdotes in fiction?
- If not He/She/It then what?
- looking for tips on fanfic writing
- I'm so lost and don't know where to turn...
- How to properly focus... need advice!
- Do flashbacks work or are they always cheesy?
- When does necessity become repetitive?
- How do you do character bios?
- A query request from a writing agency?
- Title?
- Short stories; what happens when the short story turns out too long?
- Tips on writing scenery
- Rules for Writing
- Proper number count?
- Starting a Novel
- Intuition in Mystery/Detective Novels
- Story style
- A sequel series many years later...
- Changing detail halfway through
- A question
- Prompts for Short Stories and Essays
- Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll
- Popcorn POV?
- Romantic drama...
- Dual Writing?
- Why is TV no good?
- Special styles for special situations
- Using songs and television programs?
- Have you worked backwards?
- Hotel name
- Horror and Point of View
- A story that spans centuries
- Tracking Down Past Periodical Articles
- Mob Story
- Plagiarism!! Have your say...
- Writing Styles
- work published on a forum
- TimeTravel
- Male POV
- Animal's POV
- Trouble Writing
- A mystery story where your MC is blind.
- A collection of thoughts?
- Should I even bother with backstory?
- Naming a Collection
- verb choice for a sixth sense
- A first novels word count
- Has this ever happened to you?
- Exotic POVs
- are saidisms a form of bad writing?
- Psychology Question
- Novel organisers
- The "Drop this book right now!" routine
- Can you finish a story with multiple endings?
- Yankees IS or Yankees ARE?
- Writing from personal loss
- Book on Point view
- Collaborative Project
- Writing for Teens and YA
- Am I Being Ridiculous?
- Taking an English Major...
- Deadlines and Word Limits
- A first person question
- writing with multiple POVs
- When does a short story become a novel?
- POV Doubts
- Humor in poetry
- Copyright question
- "Free-writing"
- Massive plot ideas, but bored with writing.
- Opening Scene
- Help with plot
- Third Person Narrative
- syllable counting
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