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- what does it take to be a screenwriter?
- (logs in) How to set out and/or draft your story. How to get started.
- Tips
- Quick question about quotation marks!
- Poll - without the poll bit
- All male and all female cast - good or bad?
- Critique
- Adverbs
- Tips on Finishing?
- Logical problems
- Essay Writer's Market. (help!)
- procrastination writing death of main characters
- Info dumping
- 10 Great Things About Rejections
- Quotation marks in combination with other punctuation marks?
- Ellipsis in combination with other punctuation marks?
- Give me a description of how mothers talk to babies
- don't forget newspapers
- Got the characters...where's the story?
- What's the advantage of second person writing?
- Creating characters
- Writing templates for MS Word
- An intellectual exercise on the subject of “including background”, or, Is It Just Me?
- Writing with music
- An idea worth writing?
- How often do you submit?
- Melodrama vs. drama, sentimentality vs. over-sentimentality
- Writing in the first person
- An idea for a story, but i'm unsure how to go about it..
- Reasearch Paper of Marijuana
- How much of a novel should be description?
- How do you write three quotations within quotations?
- Animals with reasoning skills?
- Quick question: How much story is "required"?
- How do you describe laughing in a novel?
- How do you use abbreviation and punctuation together?
- Short Stories
- Character Control
- How long does it take to publish a book?
- Title length - how long is too long?
- Exposition - do any novels come to mind? And what other forms of writing use telling?
- my book is tumbling into darkness...
- Dialect
- Sectionalized Novels (Help needed!)
- Other names for sexual intercourse?
- ADVICE NEEDED NOW....PLEASE
- Prologues?
- simultaneous submissions
- Agencies and Fees
- Chapters
- Novel writers only . . .
- book on basic grammar and sentance structure
- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ... Pretentious?
- Hi! Biggest Question?
- Copywrights
- Ahoy there. Sailors wanted.
- Memoir or Narrative Nonfiction?
- Readers of romantic classics, and Scrabble players.
- Drinking and writing
- Adventure – Literary Fiction. A paradox?
- Who has actually been published?
- Ideas that just won't transfer
- When do you revise/ how do you revise?
- Do you know of a web-site providing 19th Century British (& maybe Irish) slang?
- Question about third omni
- How likely is it?
- Legal Question
- How many is to many?
- Editor's Checklists
- First person or third person? Which do you prefer?
- Shades of meaning
- Wikipedia? Bah!
- Being in a characters head
- Cardboard Characters
- Writing, not talking
- Cigar smokers?
- Should you write by pen or with keyboard?
- Useing words nobody uses in real life
- I did it! First draft complete!
- Looking for an agent?
- Exchange words for wheat
- Losing the "feel" of your story...
- Extra curricular activities
- Expert needed, to referee argument about POV
- Two-month session, or two-months session?
- stuck
- On Pirates and persistence...
- A Warning for SF Writers
- This has possibly never happened to you -
- Evil Overlord list
- What's the best way to get a novella published?
- Help me write like I come from post-Revoultionary America!
- Lost all hope, I need help!!!
- How to plot your Novel
- Highway Robbery
- Heroic death vs Happy ending
- Writing with a Drunk Narrator
- Mentioning Reservations When Work is up for Critique
- How do you write romance without making it cheesy?
- Losing my goddamn mind
- Why only single books or trilogies?
- How Do You Build Your Worlds?
- Trucks and Buses. Expert mechanical advice needed (Transmissions)
- AVOID this evil villain cliche
- Help with writing a synopsis!!
- Is this common?
- Can YOU teach grammar and syntax and sentence structure?
- Modernizing the Godfather
- Putting a song in my book.
- Do you have an “inner editor”? How do you switch it off?
- Electronic submissions (format question)
- Quoting others peoples writing in your novel
- Technological Advances
- Any good editors out there? What are the signs a writer has gone stale?
- What happens if you're caught plaigarizing?
- Hunter Thompsons style
- Deus Ex Machina
- Character Developement Issues
- So You Want To Be Funny, Eh?
- Copyright Literature
- Which of these ways should I write my novel?
- How do you write a short story?
- Burn Notice
- Afraid of plagiarism
- What motivates you to write?
- Is it better to have an agent or no...
- Death Question
- format question
- is this acceptable or just plain Blah
- so sorry to bother you guys again...
- just a small question....plz help
- Two questions to economize space
- What are the steps to publication?
- Help?
- Do I write "Young"?
- Umm...
- my question :D
- Seeking advice on chapters.
- why am I unable to finish this DARNED novel?
- PUBLISHER'S example of good, successful synopses
- Question concerning a Query Letter to an Agent
- Feedback and critique from friends
- What Genre is my book?
- The robot vs. humans genre
- 2 word count questions
- writing exercises anyone?
- what do you usually do when you lose your motivation?
- Some qs.
- No Ambition?
- What do you know about developing a “creative imagination”?
- showing characters
- What is a 'good' payday for poetry/prose from an unknown?
- Plot question
- 2 questions in 1 post
- Chapters?
- looking for a name
- Is this a hard and fast rule?
- First person question: Pertains to character perspective deaths
- The Perfect Query Letter
- Great Writing Exercise
- What's the most important part: The main plot or the page-fillers?
- Could anecdotes, memoirs, etc be converted into page-turning fiction?
- How many main characters are too few?
- Getting Rid of the Prequel?
- Using other literature in your novel?
- You have many different ideas, so how do you choose just one for a novel?
- 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?