- Adding to your story to make it better - Good or bad?
- Reading Like a Reader v. Writer
- Writing in the Present Tense
- Flexing Your Metaphors - The Rant
- Formatting monologs
- What defines horror/dark fantasy, and where is that line?
- Switching POV
- Sub-genres
- Stashing my darlings
- I've a little background-tale that introduces a Saga: How to handle it?
- Book Character Themes
- Explaining a rubber band effect to a character who may never have seen rubber
- Story vs Plot
- How much action is too much action?
- For those dislike prologues
- The worst reason to start a war?
- Beginning Strong
- The Best Advice
- Adapting Mythology
- Clashing Personalities
- Have you ever had your writing stolen?
- Have you ever made a RPG character that you wanted to write a story about?
- Continuing to write while planning a novel...how do I do this?
- Feeling Kinda Stuck. Help?
- When should you not show your work?
- [Novel]The Importance of the Opening Sentence?
- How to describe the Hierarchy of Divine Power (fancy for "who has higher pay grade")
- What to do if your novel keeps getting rejected, but those that read it love it?
- Potency of Prologues
- The other POV
- Overly influenced by RPGs
- How to have characters with distinctive personalities
- What to do when grammar gets you down.
- when the 'bad guy' does the homework
- Too many ideas
- Providing Background info
- Hero Badly wounded in battle unsure of what to do next
- Time Leaps
- Your Goal
- Killing Everyone Off
- How do you deal with criticism?
- How fast is too fast?
- POV Question...
- Let me tell you about exposition...
- My Biggest Obstacle...
- Any good modern epics?
- Chapter name
- How does one approach writing a Children's story?
- Stormtrooper Accuracy and other things to dodge
- Poem for the Dead
- The Mechanics of Short Story Writing (The Ending)
- How many trilogies?
- Dying in a dream
- Fantasy birth control talk
- Cool characters, no plot worth squat
- Why the Third Person? By Joe Abercrombie
- Jim Butcher Reveals Secret to Being a Professional Writer
- Fleshing Out the Antagonist
- Deeper POV
- I need some help with this...
- Electricity manipulation
- Describing facial expressions
- So...it might not be Fantasy
- How many themes can you fit in a story?
- HELP ME choose names for main characters!!! SUPER important, thanks :D
- How do you write your novels?
- Sad endings?
- Cross-species romance
- Having a hard time describing actions/motions
- Why I Quit Writing (and am Seeking Help to Un-Quit...)
- How to write a closeted gay elf
- Kicking it off with a battle.
- A few punctuation questions
- Having the same ideas?
- Maid and the Butler
- Writting in 3rd POV
- Synonyms for a War Band
- Help with a trans* character?
- Help! Where should my novel start?
- Philosophies In Your Writing
- How much detail is too much?
- Interpreter's POV?
- The Problem of Karsa Orlong
- Diversifying similar characters
- Is it a boy or a girl?
- Where Can I Find Some Good Criticism?
- Brainstorming
- Historical Fantasy
- Steal, steal, and then steal some more
- Fritz Leiber on HP Lovecraft
- The Perfect Enemy
- Too much information, or not enough information - that is the quesiton
- Puzzling Puzzles
- good to be bad
- Transitioning from light to dark
- To be (the royal we) or...you get the point.
- POV, Names and Descriptors
- A Question of (Too) Graphic?
- Humorous scene
- Why do we care? Is it really that important?
- Writing two stories at once?
- 10 People You Don't Want to Meet at a Writer's Group
- Explain how to differentiate between fantasy & paranormal...
- How to write a later connecting novel
- Busting Beginnings
- How to write a gay character
- A question on switching POV
- Dissatisfaction in my work
- Novel vs Screenplay?
- Reader's age VS Character age
- My faceless antagonist
- My beginning is bugging me.
- Movies, a bad influence?
- What themes or motifs do you see popping up in your writing a lot?
- Opinion on a character
- Dream Sequences / Memories
- Exposition vs. Infodump
- Is a sub-genre needed?
- Is it really done?
- Redshirts?
- Rules for beta readers?
- Character and Family
- My Beginnings are Begging for me.
- Having a plot that flows
- Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone
- What's the verdict on theme naming?
- Passive/Active Voice
- Paragraphs...
- Outline vs Discovery?
- One of my MCs is a jerk
- Mother to Daughter explanation
- Unusual speech patterns: how much is too much?
- Describing characters
- Ghostwriters/Collaborations
- Why is Fire (Magic) Always Purely Destructive?
- G rated stories?
- Wouldn't you want to make a short story to see if you have the right stuff?
- book titles and copyright
- Capitalization of names of species
- Developing A Character Readers Will Root For?
- How do you ease into the adventure?
- How to plot/ get ideas?
- Separation of characters...suggestions welcome! :)
- How Do You Study Writing?
- That hardcore warrior feel.
- Male Vs Female
- Paragraphs, point-counterpoint, and more than two speakers
- How To Avoid Writing ADD?
- How Many Fantasy Plots are There Really?
- When and what to describe
- Lone Hero or a Party?
- Adverbs, the thing that helped me most.
- Is Futuristic Too Weird For Post-Apocalyptic?
- How to Develop Any Idea Into a Great Story
- Too many errors in Word
- Death approaches...
- Passive Voice, need tips
- Writing and Form Factors
- Language barriers: yea or nay?
- Going to vs. Gonna, Etc.
- Advice for writing multiple first person
- What do you guys think of multiple points of view/main characters in stories?
- Language advice + Nicknames
- Avoiding Racist Implications
- Is it common to post lengthy stories?
- What are the rules of Naming?
- Sex?
- Schizophrenia
- Are Elves, Orcs, Etc. Dead?
- Titling a Book
- How to Know When Your MC Works
- How to Write an Enemy without revealing it?
- Rooting For The Wrong Team
- My chapters aren't long enough.
- writers and responsibility -- my apology for closing the thread down
- Do you need to know where you are going?
- Grammar Questions.
- Giving Yourself Deadlines
- The Epic and shades of grey
- What Makes Your Writing Different?
- Impact and responsibility (TRIGGER WARNING)
- Writing- A lonely profession?
- Writing for Tabletop RPGs
- Seven Steps to a Perfect Story
- Need help with naming.
- Fight Scenes
- What exactly do publishers look for?
- Don't you hate it when you realize....
- Who Should She Choose?
- How many words should a fantasy book have?
- 1,000,000 words
- Plot first?
- Writing a Choose-your-ending novel?
- Need some help with a location breaking a person
- Main Character Dies in the End: OK?
- First Draft Finished: Now What?
- Which sounds better?
- On grammar: is a story's atmosphere more tense in the past thanit is in the present?
- Plot Holes
- Writing too Fast? Anyone else having this issue?
- Advice on Upcoming Scene
- War of the Gods: a story idea.
- A lesson learned? Trademarks.
- Women in fantasy
- Swapping tense mid-story?
- Bechdel: Round Two
- How original is this story idea?
- How do you make your characters?
- Secrets to Becoming Prolific
- Rule of Cool?
- Addressing Titled Characters
- Fantasy vs Being Realistic
- Concerning a seige...
- The main character is Me!
- Infodumping
- Chapter Titles?
- What do you do when you write?
- Question for a character
- I always feel like there isn't enough...
- How long should i take to plan a Novel?
- Ruts in Revising
- Thesis Sentences
- How many POVs is too many?
- Does anyone else mostly lose interest after building a world?
- When is the right time to start?
- The Value of Grit
- Finishing a Long Novel
- Brainstorming methods?
- Height Problem
- Style Choices... So many...
- Unlikable protagonists
- Stoic and Quiet Characters
- The Bechdel Test
- How do you make a Timeline?
- The tear jerker
- Need ideas on how to show passage of time.
- Writing a Battle Scene
- Finding the "one"
- Writing in Past or Present tense.
- Third gender pronouns
- Sales from Friends & Family
- Write what you want to write or write what you think is a better idea?
- Handling depressed characters?
- Help Me with this Dialogue/Scene, Please?
- Characterization Through Prose Style
- How I can I not alienate younger readers whilst using adult themes?
- Is it harder to write the opposite sex?
- In the beginning..... There was Chapter 15
- How do you go about consolidating a plot?
- Editing lows and writing highs