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- First Person Omniscient
- First or Third
- How long have you been writing seriously?
- Writer’s Block is another name for laziness.
- My Lady, milady, what is correct?
- Narrator & viewpoint character
- How would you go about having your novel reviewed?
- Why do fantasy- and sci-fi stories "require" fantasy and sci-fi names?
- The Ol' Traditional Publishers
- setting of your story
- Do you make correct use of punctuation, especially commas?
- Quotes Opening Chapters . . .
- Need Help With Inspiration
- Microsoft Word 2007 problem.
- Ideas on the shelf?
- Paragraphs in a spoken sentence
- So how many main characters are too many?
- Post-It notes re scenes
- More than one?
- 41,000 Words in--How about you all?!?
- Do You Script to Scene
- How long are your chapters?
- Burying Your Novel's Message
- When did you publish your first novel?
- believability in horror question
- Good names
- Self Binding Q Also Q's about Microsoft Word (Help?)
- Writers' quotes from noted philosopher
- Should I Force it or Skip it?
- Can't see the trees for the forest...
- Question about Audio Books
- Adultery, or the possibility thereof. Yes or No, in a short story?
- Some Basics From Vonnegut
- "Kept"
- Getting a short story published
- Editing One Page at a Time
- At what point are you satisfied?
- Research another Hurdle
- The write word
- Language Advice
- Ways You Deviate From the Norm
- How Much Story Should I have Outlined?
- writing a short story
- Advice for the New and Uninitiated
- THE HORROR OF "SPEEDBUMPS"
- Introducing your character
- Why rush your story?
- Year number in dialogue
- Plagiarism?
- M.F.A. in Writing?
- Setting up the characters
- a question about chapters
- Do you have to show your characters race?
- Simple?
- grammer query
- How Long? Someone please anwer this
- Does anyone else recognise this syndrome or is it only me?
- microsoft works word processor help
- How to create an interesting story
- Multiple Projects?
- Why do you have to have an antagonist?
- Authenticity in historical fiction
- Is anyone writing stories for kids or teens?
- Musical background to story
- Too many characters?
- If the reader knows the ending, can I still use it to create a story?
- Are you a world traveller as a tourist?
- Are there any general principles for ending a story?
- I'm so confused
- The need for discriptive words
- How reliable is a critique?
- Is this a proper word?
- Is it ok to change tense within a paragraph?
- Is this what I should be doing?
- The Best Advise For A Talented Teen To Get Published!!!
- Diving in after the Exposition
- Writer's Block
- Will someone please put me out of my misery?
- Style
- Knit one purl two miss a stitch. At end of row knit stitch through the back loop.....
- Don't know where I put it ---
- Need to establish a storyline?
- Question about publishing rights
- Having trouble with your Query or Syniopsis?
- Funny stuff
- Whining and Whinging
- Do female authors need to conceal their gender?
- I’m backkkkkk.
- Is it Cliche?
- Help Please?? New To Writing
- Pod Cast from the New Editor of the Southern Review
- Oh my gosh!
- how to turn idea into an outline??
- Punctuations use them properly
- Barbara Rogan
- Write the outline first, they say.
- Evil protagonist
- The Elevator Pitch: How to Sell Yourself in Seconds
- It can be done #2
- Oh my....
- Third Person
- Writing a Synopsis
- Greengrocer’s apostrophe (Sorry if it's been asked before)
- Ah,Breaker one-nine, this here’s th’ Ox, you got a copy on me Dubill-ya-Eff, come on?
- Near Enough Is Not Good Enough
- is – was. A question of grammar. No guessing aloud.
- What to do with a critique.
- About chapters
- A Short…..Write unplanned opening, no idea what’s next, finish successfully? Yes/No
- Where do you get your inspiration?????
- How do you pick a pen name?
- Friendly Advice
- POV - Viewpoint character. Wtf?
- Do The Sums (Do The Math, for US readers) or, How to Write a Novel.
- How to describe Large Scale Events
- Narrator & Writer
- The First Novel
- A great lesson in drama
- Analytical Fiction?
- Forcing myself to write
- How Do I Tell Someone His Book Sucks?
- In Favor of Perseverance
- Making a Synopsis Interesting?
- Irrelavant details
- Editing your "little darling"
- A question for the ladies, about SEX
- Writing for pay sites...
- Joint Stories; How to write them.
- Help on College Project
- Script for a PC game cutscene
- AP Style Guide
- Need some advice on....
- Internet
- How do you get inside a character's head?
- I don't know what I'm doing. Help.
- My most challenging book EVER
- Language in my alternative history story and using english and dialects
- “Whistle while you work”
- How Much Planning Do You Do?
- writer block
- Am I The Only One
- Who Here Has Had A Novel Published?
- Expanding my writing???
- Tense..
- Names, the forbidden enemy.. evil things
- 26 Reasons Why You Will Never Be Published
- A question of tense.
- Hey, I Just wrote a literary analysis and i was wonderingwhat youthought (10th grade)
- question for people who don't use outlines
- What do the readers want?
- Short stories still a viable means to eventual novel publication
- are chapter titles too babyish to bother with?
- how many pages in your li'l writing project?
- royalties from sales to libraries
- Nonfiction/Opinion and Real Organzations
- Using email lists - are you or aren't you?
- a high-tech method for creative writing
- Publication is impossible.
- Writing about something you know nothing about.
- Still puzzled. Nb – published authors may leave the room.
- Verbosity and flat out "too-long-ness"
- Description:Don't Obsess
- Just Finish It
- Do you plan a story this way, or are you writing’s Jackson Pollock?
- Character Name
- Are jokes free to use?
- Passive sentences
- Keeping Organized
- Creative writing at university?
- Copywrite??
- 'an' establishment vs 'the' establishment
- Is there such a thing as a "timeline novel"
- How many chapters?
- A bit of advice from a professional
- To get published
- Religion in An Alternate World in a Fantasy Novel?
- Making Your Characters Different From Each Other
- Large Posts
- Describing a major race for my story...
- How Do You Start?
- It's all been done right?
- Dialogue question
- Posting/Publishing On The Internet
- Drawn from life.
- Hey, good people, I’m back.
- Need help quick with writing a bio when I'm not even published.
- Protagonist and Antagonist: Definition
- Is a short story always fiction?
- Stress
- quick question on tense
- Any help would be greatly appreciated
- Teen main character in adult story. Can I make this work?
- Editing Question
- Cradled?
- How many POVs are too many?
- Was/Were
- What are Alternatives to a Prologue?
- Character names?
- Is it acceptable to write dialogue this way?
- Plural Possessives
- Please, help.
- TV and movies--bad influence on writers?
- Writer's Block
- All You Grammar Dung Beetles
- Fare Thee Well
- Block
- Is this allowed in a short story?
- Advice about agents, by an agent.
- multi-personality Dialogue Question
- A map perhaps?
- hi and 1st question
- Give away your books for free to sell more?
- Journal entries in 1820
- Advice on how to do this dialogue
- Ok, you’re writing a novel. At what point do you involve others, and how?
- Is this enough plot?
- Questions about Copyright
- Censorship - where are we going?
- Common errors
- "Just start writing"
- Spelling and Gramer Nazis
- Questions from Lin
- Understanding genera.
- Voice Recognition - the future?
- How to make sure I get paid?
- MFA PROGRAMS
- More than one author's website?
- How is a story planned?
- Have you ever uprooted your life to research your story?
- What to do now?
- Query Letter
- How to get over Writer's Block
- Individual Scenes In A Story
- 30,000 Words--finished with beginning ark--need help/advice for the middle.
- English Grammar 101: Provide contractions of the following . . .
- Why all the obsession about grammar in the "Critique and Advice" forum?
- Writing Fiction: The first few paragraphs
- 1) Innovative transport idea needed. 2) Military question.
- Posting a novel
- Novel readers. How often do you read book you never heard about?
- Help! I don't know how to end my novel!
- Look at the structure of this sentence . . .
- How do you plan your major stories?
- Interview for Master's in English teaching coming up - Help greatly appreciated!
- I need help with my narration.
- Common Faults in Short Stories
- Too Much Research?
- Guiltless Editing
- Humour submissions
- Rewriting rough drafts into a novel?