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  1. Adding to your story to make it better - Good or bad?
  2. Reading Like a Reader v. Writer
  3. Writing in the Present Tense
  4. Flexing Your Metaphors - The Rant
  5. Formatting monologs
  6. What defines horror/dark fantasy, and where is that line?
  7. Switching POV
  8. Sub-genres
  9. Stashing my darlings
  10. I've a little background-tale that introduces a Saga: How to handle it?
  11. Book Character Themes
  12. Explaining a rubber band effect to a character who may never have seen rubber
  13. Story vs Plot
  14. How much action is too much action?
  15. For those dislike prologues
  16. The worst reason to start a war?
  17. Beginning Strong
  18. The Best Advice
  19. Adapting Mythology
  20. Clashing Personalities
  21. Have you ever had your writing stolen?
  22. Have you ever made a RPG character that you wanted to write a story about?
  23. Continuing to write while planning a novel...how do I do this?
  24. Feeling Kinda Stuck. Help?
  25. When should you not show your work?
  26. [Novel]The Importance of the Opening Sentence?
  27. How to describe the Hierarchy of Divine Power (fancy for "who has higher pay grade")
  28. What to do if your novel keeps getting rejected, but those that read it love it?
  29. Potency of Prologues
  30. The other POV
  31. Overly influenced by RPGs
  32. How to have characters with distinctive personalities
  33. What to do when grammar gets you down.
  34. when the 'bad guy' does the homework
  35. Too many ideas
  36. Providing Background info
  37. Hero Badly wounded in battle unsure of what to do next
  38. Time Leaps
  39. Your Goal
  40. Killing Everyone Off
  41. How do you deal with criticism?
  42. How fast is too fast?
  43. POV Question...
  44. Let me tell you about exposition...
  45. My Biggest Obstacle...
  46. Any good modern epics?
  47. Chapter name
  48. How does one approach writing a Children's story?
  49. Stormtrooper Accuracy and other things to dodge
  50. Poem for the Dead
  51. The Mechanics of Short Story Writing (The Ending)
  52. How many trilogies?
  53. Dying in a dream
  54. Fantasy birth control talk
  55. Cool characters, no plot worth squat
  56. Why the Third Person? By Joe Abercrombie
  57. Jim Butcher Reveals Secret to Being a Professional Writer
  58. Fleshing Out the Antagonist
  59. Deeper POV
  60. I need some help with this...
  61. Electricity manipulation
  62. Describing facial expressions
  63. So...it might not be Fantasy
  64. How many themes can you fit in a story?
  65. HELP ME choose names for main characters!!! SUPER important, thanks :D
  66. How do you write your novels?
  67. Sad endings?
  68. Cross-species romance
  69. Having a hard time describing actions/motions
  70. Why I Quit Writing (and am Seeking Help to Un-Quit...)
  71. How to write a closeted gay elf
  72. Kicking it off with a battle.
  73. A few punctuation questions
  74. Having the same ideas?
  75. Maid and the Butler
  76. Writting in 3rd POV
  77. Synonyms for a War Band
  78. Help with a trans* character?
  79. Help! Where should my novel start?
  80. Philosophies In Your Writing
  81. How much detail is too much?
  82. Interpreter's POV?
  83. The Problem of Karsa Orlong
  84. Diversifying similar characters
  85. Is it a boy or a girl?
  86. Where Can I Find Some Good Criticism?
  87. Brainstorming
  88. Historical Fantasy
  89. Steal, steal, and then steal some more
  90. Fritz Leiber on HP Lovecraft
  91. The Perfect Enemy
  92. Too much information, or not enough information - that is the quesiton
  93. Puzzling Puzzles
  94. good to be bad
  95. Transitioning from light to dark
  96. To be (the royal we) or...you get the point.
  97. POV, Names and Descriptors
  98. A Question of (Too) Graphic?
  99. Humorous scene
  100. Why do we care? Is it really that important?
  101. Writing two stories at once?
  102. 10 People You Don't Want to Meet at a Writer's Group
  103. Explain how to differentiate between fantasy & paranormal...
  104. How to write a later connecting novel
  105. Busting Beginnings
  106. How to write a gay character
  107. A question on switching POV
  108. Dissatisfaction in my work
  109. Novel vs Screenplay?
  110. Reader's age VS Character age
  111. My faceless antagonist
  112. My beginning is bugging me.
  113. Movies, a bad influence?
  114. What themes or motifs do you see popping up in your writing a lot?
  115. Opinion on a character
  116. Dream Sequences / Memories
  117. Exposition vs. Infodump
  118. Is a sub-genre needed?
  119. Is it really done?
  120. Redshirts?
  121. Rules for beta readers?
  122. Character and Family
  123. My Beginnings are Begging for me.
  124. Having a plot that flows
  125. Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone
  126. What's the verdict on theme naming?
  127. Passive/Active Voice
  128. Paragraphs...
  129. Outline vs Discovery?
  130. One of my MCs is a jerk
  131. Mother to Daughter explanation
  132. Unusual speech patterns: how much is too much?
  133. Describing characters
  134. Ghostwriters/Collaborations
  135. Why is Fire (Magic) Always Purely Destructive?
  136. G rated stories?
  137. Wouldn't you want to make a short story to see if you have the right stuff?
  138. book titles and copyright
  139. Capitalization of names of species
  140. Developing A Character Readers Will Root For?
  141. How do you ease into the adventure?
  142. How to plot/ get ideas?
  143. Separation of characters...suggestions welcome! :)
  144. How Do You Study Writing?
  145. That hardcore warrior feel.
  146. Male Vs Female
  147. Paragraphs, point-counterpoint, and more than two speakers
  148. How To Avoid Writing ADD?
  149. How Many Fantasy Plots are There Really?
  150. When and what to describe
  151. Lone Hero or a Party?
  152. Adverbs, the thing that helped me most.
  153. Is Futuristic Too Weird For Post-Apocalyptic?
  154. How to Develop Any Idea Into a Great Story
  155. Too many errors in Word
  156. Death approaches...
  157. Passive Voice, need tips
  158. Writing and Form Factors
  159. Language barriers: yea or nay?
  160. Going to vs. Gonna, Etc.
  161. Advice for writing multiple first person
  162. What do you guys think of multiple points of view/main characters in stories?
  163. Language advice + Nicknames
  164. Avoiding Racist Implications
  165. Is it common to post lengthy stories?
  166. What are the rules of Naming?
  167. Sex?
  168. Schizophrenia
  169. Are Elves, Orcs, Etc. Dead?
  170. Titling a Book
  171. How to Know When Your MC Works
  172. How to Write an Enemy without revealing it?
  173. Rooting For The Wrong Team
  174. My chapters aren't long enough.
  175. writers and responsibility -- my apology for closing the thread down
  176. Do you need to know where you are going?
  177. Grammar Questions.
  178. Giving Yourself Deadlines
  179. The Epic and shades of grey
  180. What Makes Your Writing Different?
  181. Impact and responsibility (TRIGGER WARNING)
  182. Writing- A lonely profession?
  183. Writing for Tabletop RPGs
  184. Seven Steps to a Perfect Story
  185. Need help with naming.
  186. Fight Scenes
  187. What exactly do publishers look for?
  188. Don't you hate it when you realize....
  189. Who Should She Choose?
  190. How many words should a fantasy book have?
  191. 1,000,000 words
  192. Plot first?
  193. Writing a Choose-your-ending novel?
  194. Need some help with a location breaking a person
  195. Main Character Dies in the End: OK?
  196. First Draft Finished: Now What?
  197. Which sounds better?
  198. On grammar: is a story's atmosphere more tense in the past thanit is in the present?
  199. Plot Holes
  200. Writing too Fast? Anyone else having this issue?
  201. Advice on Upcoming Scene
  202. War of the Gods: a story idea.
  203. A lesson learned? Trademarks.
  204. Women in fantasy
  205. Swapping tense mid-story?
  206. Bechdel: Round Two
  207. How original is this story idea?
  208. How do you make your characters?
  209. Secrets to Becoming Prolific
  210. Rule of Cool?
  211. Addressing Titled Characters
  212. Fantasy vs Being Realistic
  213. Concerning a seige...
  214. The main character is Me!
  215. Infodumping
  216. Chapter Titles?
  217. What do you do when you write?
  218. Question for a character
  219. I always feel like there isn't enough...
  220. How long should i take to plan a Novel?
  221. Ruts in Revising
  222. Thesis Sentences
  223. How many POVs is too many?
  224. Does anyone else mostly lose interest after building a world?
  225. When is the right time to start?
  226. The Value of Grit
  227. Finishing a Long Novel
  228. Brainstorming methods?
  229. Height Problem
  230. Style Choices... So many...
  231. Unlikable protagonists
  232. Stoic and Quiet Characters
  233. The Bechdel Test
  234. How do you make a Timeline?
  235. The tear jerker
  236. Need ideas on how to show passage of time.
  237. Writing a Battle Scene
  238. Finding the "one"
  239. Writing in Past or Present tense.
  240. Third gender pronouns
  241. Sales from Friends & Family
  242. Write what you want to write or write what you think is a better idea?
  243. Handling depressed characters?
  244. Help Me with this Dialogue/Scene, Please?
  245. Characterization Through Prose Style
  246. How I can I not alienate younger readers whilst using adult themes?
  247. Is it harder to write the opposite sex?
  248. In the beginning..... There was Chapter 15
  249. How do you go about consolidating a plot?
  250. Editing lows and writing highs