How Do You Create Flawed Characters?

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How do you handle passing characters in your writing?
How do you organize your developing manuscript?
How do you publish an illustrated book with illustrations you commissioned yourself?
How do you revise your drafts?
How do you think famous authors can handle this problem?
How does "Firemoon" sound as a title?
How does a query to a publisher differ from a query to an agent?
How does one express 2 ending punctuations at once?
How Does the Draft Work?
How early (or late) does dialogue appear in your work?
How important are the processor and storage?
How important is a fax machine?
How long did it take you to finish writing your first novel?
How long does it take for an agent to sell your work?
How long does it take you to write a chapter?
How long should a 'brief series synopsis' be?
How long should I wait for a response
How long to give an exclusive?
How long to travel to Pluto?
How long to wait before submitting again to a market that just accepted
How long will my work remain in SYW?
How many agents should I have on my list?
How many memoirs do people have in them?
How many memoirs does a person have in them?
How many rejections until i get worried?!
How many times does a word have to appear before it's "over used"
How many words per hour do you write?
How many words should a middle grade novel be?
How Much Do You Know About World Poverty?
How much help should I ask of you?
How much more for two kittens?
How much should a part-timer charge?
How much storage space do I need on an XBox 360
How much to reveal on social media about your unpublished novel?
How Should Authors Research Potential Publishers?
How should I go about discussing the books I'm reading?
How small is TOO small of a niche market to query an agent?
How soon should a love interested be introduced in YA fantasy?
How Tacky is too Tacky?
How the boy who could not cry became a man - a graphic novel
How to address cultural misinformation in query letter?
How to create a religion with a Arabian themed race/faction?
How to Decide to Self Pub or Trade?
How to describe natural hair?
How to explain why I'm not a Christian
How to go about publishing a book from a private blog
How to handle tweaking your book?
How to keep the romance going for sequel?
How to learn more about genres?
How to make exposition better?
How to Punctuate the Name of a Business
how to use your inspiration?
How to write a prophecy scene
How/where do you save
Howdy folks!
Howdy...
Hullo
Humanity Clustered in Port Cities?
Humorous stories?
I am looking for a book that even Google can't find. Please help me.
I am new!
I am not an erotica or romance writer but...
I am Pilgrim - First Person Omniscient. What?!
I AM SO EXCITED!!! (Get to pull off a surprise!)
I am unsure about what genre my book is?
I can't find the query letter boards. Help!
I get to call myself 'award winning author' with a straight face...
I got a Goodreads. What does it do?
I guess if you going to do that
I had a bit of an epiphany today.
I hate Sigil with the fiery passion of a thousand suns
I have a bestseller on Kobo...am I kind of a big deal?
I have a grammar issue
I have a question about submitting the first three chapters. So confused help!
I have heard of 'Buy American!'
I hope I am not a suspect?!
I just joined a new writing group in Salem
I just joined twitter.....what the hell am I supposed to do with it?
I just joined...
I just want someone to hold me and tell me everything's going to be okay...
I keep seeing this book advert in quotes in threads
I love animals - volunteering writing services to a cause
I Need a Book on Dragons - Help Me Out?
I need a British beta reader
I need a luxury hotel in San Francisco
I Need Some Help on a Project I'm Working in this month.
I never have Writer's Block
I swear it was you
I want to be a literary writer
I want to make sure the reader doesn't get confused in one of my scenes...
I was wondering if any of you guys could recommend a graphic novel series similar to Charmed?
I will soon be plummeting towards the Earth...
I Winned! I Winned!
I'm a "mama" again.
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover and I'm a sinner
I'm a noob. I write YA & new adult contemporary fantasy & drama novels
I'm a picker
I'm brand new!
I'm Hannah
I'm in!
I'm looking for some people with interesting opinions to answer a survey for me!
I'm looking for someone to write a fantasy novel with.
I'm Nathan. I like turtles.
I'm new here
I'm new here and I already need help XD
I'm Patrick (got a question about BackSpace Conferences)
I'm pleased to announce... (new book deal!)
I'm scared of querying for my novel
I'm seriously thinking of quitting my job
I'm thinking of getting a cat
I'm writing a young adult/new adult (14-19) literary/indie drama novel
I've stopped getting sales
Ideas for promoting ebooks in the flesh?
Identifying the Important Plot Points in Joss Whedon's "Serenity"
If an agent hasn't responded withing a week
if any
If I'm allowed to post this - what is your dream life that you hope writing will eventually provide?
If mermaids were real and using real science in fantasy
If Two Agents Ask To See the Complete Novel What Are The Protocols?
If you were following the William Meikle Facebook page...
Illinois Bans Gay Conversion Therapy for Minors
Illinois here!
In search of a mentor
In the Tempest Behind My Eyes
in the window
In your opinion
Independent Authors Network
Independent publishers - Military/Thriller/Espionage
Indie authors - how do you classify your Urban Fantasy novel on Amazon?
Indonesia anyone ?
Infinitives and placement
Inish Carraig - launch day!
Injures: Sutures vs Glue
Inkshares
Inner Child Press
Insurance Life Claims Officer or HO Attorney
Interesting celestial event tonight visible in eastern North America
Internal police structure and bypasses to the chain of command.
International Week of the Deaf '15
Introducing Mr. Michael --- The Professional Companion
Introduction
Is 'Portal Fantasy' still a swear word in the publishing world?
Is Author101 University Conference Legit?
Is commercial fiction a genre on its own?
Is dialogue showing or telling?
Is everything you write funny or humorous?
is it
Is it a bad idea to lie in your query letter?
Is it a cred or is it not a cred?
Is it bad to compare your book to a TV show?
Is it hard to find an audience for a story about an elderly person?
Is it OK to re-send a partial?
Is it okay to compare a character's appearance to a celebrity?
Is It Okay To Introduce The MC Via A McGyver?
Is it possible to retroactively trace a cell phone location?
Is it really a bad idea to submit to agents in October?
is it safe to assume they are not interested?
Is it so bad...
Is it writers block if you can still write?
Is liquid metal cliche?
Is my MC heroic? Is yours?
Is my query letter okay?
Is October wrong time to submit to UK agents?
is or 's
Is the French word for "badger" something French-speaking Swiss children shouldn't read?
Is the opening paragraph of my novel boring? (Very short)
Is there a place to share blurbs on Absolute Write somewhere?
Is there anything majorly wrong with my query letter?
Is this 3rd Person Ominiscient or Head Hopping Mess?
Is this considered plagiarism?
Is this even legal? (online free book website with books I'm not sure are supposed to be there)
is this repetitive
Is writing more exciting when you're published?
ISIS executes 82-year-old archaeologist who refused to reveal location of antiquities
Isn't it cool when...?
ISO Beta Readers for 64K Urban Fantasy
It's 2015
It's NaNoWriMo season!
It's not a pre-cog. It's a computer.
It's not Hispanics abusing "birthright" citizenship; it's Asians
It's not often that I want to cheer for violence...
It's official: The Republican Party has gone batshit insane
It's VOTE_BOT's Spectacular Poetry Contest Poll!
James Harrison says NO on participation trophies.
James Holmes sentenced to 3
Jeb Bush Mailer Mistake
Jeopardy!
Jewish Epithets and Slurs In the 19th Century American West
John Green YA Novel Plot Generator
John Oliver / Prosperity Gospel and related topics
John Oliver Exposes Himself-- To Sex Education
John Saul
Johnstone
Jon Stewart Leaves Daily Show
Journaling as your characters
Judge rules House Republicans "have standing" to continue forward with lawsuit against Whitehouse
Judge sentences man to marriage
Just Another Newbie
Just heard the first 36 minutes of my book that's being made into an audiobook for Audible & iTunes
Just One Woof - Dog Watches Over Trapped Friend
just published NF author from NYC here!
just published NF writer from NYC here!
Just Saying Hi
Just saying Hi !
Just sit there for a set period of time
just stop talking!
Just throwing this idea out there
Just typed "the end"
Just wanted to say HELLO THERE!
Just when you thought the GOP Presidental race couldn't get more funner:
Juveniles in police custody
K_C_Associates/KC&A Literary Agency/Lisa Abellera
Keep OpenOffice or Switch to LibreOffice?
keep track...
Keeping the Angst in Check
Ken Burns-The Civil War
Kentucky Clerk Refuses to Issue Marriage Licenses
Kentucky Republicans Switch from Primary to Caucus
Kidnapping/Harboring Runaway Laws and Process
Killing off a POV
Killing someone quickly with a knife
Kindle doesn't update when I revise my book.
Kindle publishing contract with royalties
Kobo
Korean Name and Culture Check
La Muse Short and Sweat Retreat Contest
Lag
Lakewater Press
LampLight Magazine
laptop question
Late 1800s medical treatment for broken hand from fistfight?
Latin translation?
laughin' and cryin' -- the GOP debates
Launch! Storm Warning eBook and Storm Rising paperback
Law Enforcement Agency question
Lawyer petitions court for trial by combat
Leaves Only To Get Help From Dense Humans.
Led Zeppelin fans have to see this
Left turns on Schumer over position on Iran deal
Legacy of Hunger now available for pre-order!
Legacy of Hunger: Now available for Pre-Order
Legal question regarding non-fictional writing
Legal Questions - narcotics sentencing
Leica Camera Used After Dark
Let's Talk About Movies
Let's talk about word count
Letter from a ghost...
Libre Office newbie needs help.
Like Icarus
Likeable Character = Success Stories only?
linked short story collection or novel?
Listening to music while writing and particularly editing
Literary agent and film literary agent? Do I need both?
Load limits and sizes on wooden and hemp rope A-frame lifting gear
Location
location - going real versus making it up for contemporary romance
Lock Publishing
Longing
look! Another newbie!
Lookee my new book
Looking for a Beta for a completed 69K Urban Fantasy
Looking for a beta for a romance novel
Looking for a beta reader for a ~5k chapter of a novel
Looking for a Beta Reader for a 62K YA Mystery (80's Pop Culture included)
Looking for a Beta Reader for a Adult Fantasy Novel- 167
Looking for a mentor!!
Looking for a writing buddy
Looking for beta for a 7000 word short story
Looking for Beta for a short story
Looking for Beta for Urban Fantasy ~ Sister Blades
Looking for beta reader/or swap for upper MG
Looking for Beta Readers for a 49k YA Fantasy!
Looking for cozy beta reader
Looking for Diverse Beta Readers for Contemporary Middle Grade
Looking for places to submit: Packing up and leaving for Uruguay
Looking for Reviewers ($10 per review or roughly 2 cents per word)
Looking for Sc-Fi Beta Reader/Beta Swap
Looking for Writing Buddies
Loss of Energy
Loss of Enery
LOtR fan? Check this out.....
Love alligators yet scared of adult alligator sounds?
Low self-esteem
Loweecey
Lucky me
Lurker Delurking
Mafia
Magic's Stealing - Now Available for Pre-order!
Make Mine to Go (M/M erotic romance) new release discount
make the reboots stop.
Making Learning Magic Challenging for YA MC
MAN-BOOKER SHORTLIST 2015 - Who're in? Place your bets!
Managed to create a buzz this week by beating Stephen King
Maps and time lines
Mara Lynn
Married women's property rights in 1890s America (Alaska)?
Mars Mystery Monday
Mascot Books - Self Publishing company
Maslanka
Mass shooting at Oregon community college
Massive Influx of Poetry Votes Brings Down AW
May I beta read your first chapter?
Maybe God's Trying to tell me something...
Maybe I need a kick in the pants
MC hit on head with rolling pin. Please advise.
MC hit on head with rolling pins. Questions.
Meaning of sentence? (Vonnegut
Meanwhile
Medicine in Medieval Times
Memoir or self-help
Men from Iowa arrested in Boston for threatening Pokemon convention
Mentally Writing the Book
Mentioning Former Client in Query
Meow...Catnip3: Revolution is on its way
Metal Gear
Metaphorosis magazine - science fiction and fantasy - [$.01/word]
MG fantasy released 8/29/15
Microsoft surface 3 question
middle grade & YA fict
Military rank
Militias in early 1770s Colonial Boston
Minor Manifesto of a Lesser Human Being
Minority Report (series)
Missouri . . .
Missouri asks judge to toss Satanist's lawsuit on abortion requirements
MLA style
Mmmm
Modern ocean sailing questions - 36' motorsail with only mildly experienced crew
Modern terms in a synopsis
Monday Should Be Interesting
montag press
More (great) photos trickling down from New Horizons
More & More New Authors Only Receiving an Ebook Deal?
Motivational Posters and Captions
Moving music from an iPod to your computer?
MS Word Page Layout
MSTs
MTV's Shannara Chronicles Gets Its PG-13 Game of Thrones On in a Massive New Trailer
Multiple POV / Weeding Out Unnecessary Scenes
Muse... do you have one?
Muslim teen Ahmed Mohamed creates clock
Must-read horror shorts?
Mustangs
My Blog is My Baby (a rant)
My book is out in paperback!
My computer can't download anything.
My cover designer didn't measure design properly
My dream
My first notice for jury duty!
My first post on PBS parents!
My goal
My iPad is disabled.
My Iron Drips Oil--Help!
My Kindle 2 is Breaking My Heart
My Life is Strange fan theory
My Name is Leanne
My outlines? Fantastic. My execution? A mess.
My own plagiarism inspiration quandary.
Mycology fans?
NaNoWriMo Usernames and Profile links 2015
National Park Service bans electronic cigarettes
Need a beta reader.
Need a website redesign! Anyone have an reasonably priced recommendations?
Need an IRL comparison
Need Beta for 1st Ch. of Memoir (3
Need grammar help! Connecting independent and dependent clauses...
need help
need help building complex intriguing characters.
NEED HELP: How do you write middles and ends?
need help.
Need some help deciding on a back cover blurb
Never had Writer's Block
Never written before
New
New Anthology: The Best Small Fictions 2015
New Author - Just starting out.
NEW BLOG FOR INDIE NOVELISTS!
New blog for the indie novelist!
New experiment verifies quantum spookiness
NEW FALL SHOWS (Fall 2015)
New fantasy writer here. Authonomy refugee. Where's Hungary again?
New girl from LA!
new here
New interior layout for my eBook series
New Member "Jules"
New member introduction
New Old Member
New Person
New price on an old medication
New pseudonym Query Letter
New Release: Finding Courage
New screenwriting article - Podcasts
New Site For Writers And Readers
New to this forum...Hello!
New Writer - trying to decide between contracts. Need advice!
New Zealand book ban
Newbie
Newbie alert
Newbie the Neophyte here!
Next up: Brain in a jar
NFL 2015 season
NHL 2015-2016
Nightchaser Ink Publishing
Nobel in medicine goes to parasites
Non-dystopian books with kid-only societies?
Non-Sexist female descriptive
Nonhuman protagonists: yea or nay?
Noob Alert :)
North Carolina Teens Charge in Child Porn Case
Not 1915
Not a Joke: Saudi Arabia Named Head of UN Human Rights Panel
Not Adapted Into Film?
Not clear on Kindle - a few KENPC questions
Not really new but missing in action
Not so much writer's block as writing stagnation
Not sure what to blog about
not the TV series)
Novel successful
Novels about artists and artisans?
Novels that use two main characters and POVs?
Novels with supernatural protagonist who doesn't know what s/he is?
now on Pre-order and Netgalley!
now...)
Nuclear Iran?
NYC (and beyond) paramedics/EMTs - you've just been called out to a serious vehicle collision!
NYU ACM: No Ex-Angels For Us
Obsessed Lover?
Obstreperous October - 500 words/day or editing - all genres welcome
OctNoWriNo 2015
Ode to...
Of Unknown Origin
Officer Acquitted Because He Wasn't Charged With A Serious Enough Crime
Oh
Oh Canada!
Oklahoma postpones executing innocent man (but only because they ordered the wrong f*cking drug)
Olive Kitteridge
Omens
On a lighter note: You break
On Cursing and Cultural Translation
On Hiring a Designer
Ona Mission!
one part abomination
One part wondrous
Online editing and critique tools and their usefulness
OOPS
open mikes
OpenOffice now underlines everything as errors
or also AmE ??
or am I just defective?
or How to Unfuzz a Brain
or not to remove?
or other websites like it
or otherwise.
or shaped by random events?
or throat?
or turn to a more "fun" writing endeavor?
or where the magic happens?
Original Kiss
Orphan Black anyone?
Out Skerries?
Outland currently on freebie
Pacific Rim 2 is delayed indefinitely and Transformers 5 is green-lit?
Page breaks in a novel
Paid beta readers
Pantsers
Paragraph help and advice
Paranormal and Amnesia
part seven million...
Partitions
Pascal's Wager and The Sure Thing
Passive voice or Active Voice?
Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind to Be a Movie and a TV Show
pay reading fee to magazine for short story
Pay to play? Reading fees--grrr.
Paying to copy edit my MS
pays 1 cent per word for socially-conscious horror
Pennsylvania judge rejects parents' move to stop gender change surgery
People Who Write All Books in their Series Simultaneously.
Permission for epigraphs
Petition to Keep Chelsea Manning Out of Indefinite Solitary Confinement
Pez Movie?
Phrases to Avoid
Phrases to portray crying that don't include neck
Physics/Maths Programs Discussion
Piano experience
Picking and choosing from the Bible - but are they?
Picture (Im)perfect
Pirated ebook
PITFALL launches today!
Placement of inciting incident
Plane Crashes--Any Pilots or aviation experts?
Planetary Research Nuggets
Planetary scientist at yer service
Planned Parenthood Head Cecile Richards Testifies In Front Of Congress
Please
Please allow me to introduce myself....
Please give me your erotica May-December recs
Please Help Me Find Free Early Brazilian Newspapers Online.
Please help me with votes in SYTYCW15 on Wattpad!
PLEASE help us with some research?
Please recommend a wall oven
Please Suggest More Ways In Which To Use Random Articles In My Setting
please.
Plot-in 2015
Plotting Poetry?
Pluralizing Possesive Proper Nouns
plus search warrant
Poc romance heroes and... Er... Size relations.
Poetic Translations; worth pursuing?
Poetry and Identity Politics
Poetry forum reunions
Poetry Sale
Poetry SYW malfunction?
Pokémon GO
Police Brutality In Stockton
Police execute search warrant at home of Gene Simmons.
Police Giving Evidence Back
Police Notifying Possible Minor of Parent's Arrest & questioning
Police work - Finding a cell phone account without the phone
Political Correctnes Vs Period Plots
Poll: help me decide where to travel this autumn!
Polywick Studio - Art for your Book and Novel
Pope Francis and the Changing Catholic Church.
Post a free book on Amazon?
Posting sample chapters on Good Reads before full book is released
Potentially offensive genre question.
POV Change in Series
POV problems
POV Question
Pre-Release announcment - Storm Warning (A Kelli Storm Novel 2)
Preparing for Pregnancy
Present Tense ??
Presidential Train
PRESS START TO PLAY: Out NOW on Vintage/Random House.
pretty please!
Preview
Print Is Not Dead Yet
Print journals with some stories online
prisons and Belfast
Problem: Quotes
Problematic?
Programs That Don't Work in Windows 10
Prologue vs First Chapters if years pass before the main story
Promoting Kindle with paid advertisement?
pronoun antecedents
Proof reading techniques
Proper amount of complexity in fantasy plots
proteins...
Protest Anthems?
psychic distance
Pub cred in cover letter to same market?
Publishers requiring you to buy thousands of copies of your own book
Publishing a YA novella.Not sure what i'm doing.
Pumpkin!
punctuation problems I should probably know the answer for but...
Punk or gothic heroines in paranormal romance novels
Putin and Obama...Together? Against Islamic State?
Q about clause in agent contract
QUANTICO (May contain SPOILERS)
Quark-Gluon surprise
Query for novel with multiple protagonists
Query question
Query question: How do you include comps/what comps are appropriate to include?
Querying agents who read full MS last time around
Querying an incredibly well-respected agent who treated me 'badly' as
Querying the Same Agents with Different Novels
Querying to publishers for children's books vs on-demand print
Question about a certain e-book self publishing company
Question About Announcements
Question about epublished works
Question about Formatting when Trading with Beta
Question about KDP Free Days
Question about standard book size for fiction paperback
Question about vaccine storage temperatures and effects?
Question for Agents: Double-spaced courier? Really? In 2015?
Question on Paragraph Indents and Formatting
Questions about adding font to an image
Questions about unconsciousness/passing out
Questions on draft horse teams pulling waggons over long distance for a fantasy
Questions To Ask This Magazine...
Quetions on simultaneous submissions
R.I.P. Frank Gifford
R.I.P. Oliver Sacks
R.I.P. Yogi Berra
Races and Racism
Rank of Regency Era Officer at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812?
Rate a Poet: Fernando Pessoa
Re-entering the Absolutewrite world
Re-introing myself
Re: Can't see pm's here.
Re: Vopying a picture on a lenovo laptop
Reached an impasse: sleep or writing. HALP.
react
Read AFTER coffee! Duh.
Reader Fatigue
Reading novels influences current writing project--anyone have this issue?
reading...
Readings
Ready to give up? Read Chip MacGregor today.
Real US Schools vs. TV Tropes
Realistic Poetry Publishing International
Really getting frustrated by my attempts to write erotica.
Really quick response time. Is the Maria Carvainis literary agency legit?
Really? You Named Your Child What?
Recommendations for Sentence Style Workbook?
Recommended book marketing sites?
Red Dwarf (the star
Red Roxy Studios
Redundancy
Reintroduction
Rejection after sending query
Rejection email— Anything to take from it?
Rejection letters have left me believing my MS won't be picked up.....
related questions
Replacing a washing machine drain hose?
Republicans threaten (another) government shutdown--Planned Parenthood edition
Requerying an agent
Requirements for civilised life
Researching Credible Sci-Fi
Resizing font in AW quotations
Resources and Feedback?
Return of the PXL!
Revenge of the Unwritten Words
Review my Blog please? :)
Revise & Resubmit with Exclusive. When to notify other pubs?
Rick Perry Suspends Campaign
Riddle Poems
Right of First Refusal and pen names
Right? Female Reporters Barred From Locker Room By AN Usher.
Right? Female Reporters Barred From Locker Room By Usher.
RIP Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey
RIP Jackie Collins
RIP Jerry Parr
RIP Julian Bond
RIP Yvonne Craig.
Robin Hood sp... a killer!
Rock On
romance betas - where are they?
Room for Transgenders in Urban Fantasy
Rubiks World Chapter 10
Rue/Street - (French) - Paris Q
Rugby Word Cup - spoilers!
Rules for Writing a Novel
Russian Air Strikes in Syria
RWA/WF chapter ?
Sage Ink Group (Agency)
Saigon
Salutiferous September - 500 words/day or editing - all genres welcome
Salve! My Newbie Introduction
San Diego
Sanders shouted down
SATS and stress?
Saying hi!
says Stephen Hawking
Scalzi on critiquing unfinished work
Scenes and conflict - in need of expert revision advice
School Shooting too much for YA?
Schrödinger’s Immigrant
Science Thrillers Media
Scott Walker blames Obama for increase in Police Deaths
scrivener - moved on?
Scrivener and printing notes
Scrivener transition (after free trial)
Sea lettuce
Searching for a CP/YA horror-thrillers
Second Chance books
Section breaks in MS-Word
Sedoka Mondo
Seeking "final" beta for 103k fantasy.
Seeking a New Beta Reader for New Project
Seeking beta for completed 107k sci-fi action/adventure novel
Seeking Beta Reader for 40
Seeking Betas for 75k YA High Fantasy
Seeking Betas for Two 3kish word Fantasy Short Stories. Willing to Beta in exchange.
Seeking Critique Partner--Literary Fiction
Seeking Mexican-American Critique Partner for Erotic Romance
Seeking Recommendations: Formatter for Creatspace
Seeking Writing Buddy for Support/Butt Kicking
Self-publishing an adult colouring book
Self-Publishing for Personal Reasons
Self-Publishing previously published work?
Selling a book with QUILTBAG characters - but that's not the conflict?
Selling an idea to a game company
Semper Press
Senior Cat Stuff
SepNoWriMo 2015!
September 2015 - CNN GOP Debate
Serial Novel Cowachunga - Expansion Pathways
Serials?
setting and character development
Seventieth Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
Sex & Self Pleasure in YA/Teen
Shane Carruth's Upstream Color and Primer
Sharkpunk mystery "Silent Water" free!
Sharp erosion in Clinton support among Democratic women
Sheepzilla
Shepherd's Crown - Spoilers allowed! Don't look at this thread if you haven't read it.
Sherman Alexie and the BAP 2015
Sherman Alexie Apologizes and Agonizes
Shieldcrest Publishing
Short Mysteries Wanted 1000-8000 words [.5 cents/word]
Short Story Question Please
Should names of businesses be in inverted commas or italics?
Should you still try to finish and sell your work if you’re not that great a writer?
Show Me A Hero
Showers at Auschwitz
shows teachers
Shrimp Fra Diavolo
Signs and Portents
Silent Screams anthology
Simple question
Skylab and Mir: Anyone Here Remember Seeing them?
Slaughterhouse V)
SLJ's SummerTeen Conference tomorrow for us YA readers
Smallest pre-industrial ship that can cross a 20-mile channel in good time?
Smashwords Premium Catalog Question
Smokejumper published at Eunoia Review
Smooths versus Smoothes????
smut/dystopia
So
So confused about the genres agents represent.
So confused about writing is first person POV
So excited! Sold kids' book on friendship!
so here's me promising WW3 with Russia over Syria"
So I got married yesterday...
So is it correct to call this fiction?
So let's say you queried...
So many ebook programs..
So Much for Judicial Temperament
So what do we think of the impending - Peeple? (It's basically Yelp for rating the people you know.)
Socialism!
Solar system display in the southwest U.S.
Sold 2 pro stories... and purchased another. :)
Sold My First Story!!!
some adivice?
Someone stole my credit card information online
Song Writers: What motivates and inspires you?
Soon to publish my second ebook. Advice?
Sounds in a novel. Do they just happen or are they heard from the POV of a character?
South Carolina
space lettuce!
Spacing in emailed sample pages
Spark
Spec fiction release - EZEMBE
Specific Printing Service?
Spectacular futuristic ship idea
Spoon bread
St. Martin's
Stand-up comic gigs - what's the average pay rate?
Standing While Black
Start of 2nd novel. Will it affect editing of existing rough draft.
Starting a freelance career through content sites
starting again
steal his puppy
Steamworks Ink (Publisher)
Steelers Linebacker Returns Sons' Participation Trophies
Stephen King's Derry Maine.
Stepping away from a project. What's your experience?
Steve Jobs
STOP. Collaborate and listen! (Newbie here)
Stories about Teeth
Stories Are About People
storing uranium in a steampunk/dieselpunk setting
Storm Rising A Kelli Storm Novel out now from Three Worlds Press
Storm Warning (A Kelli Storm Novel 2) avialble for pre-order 9/22
Story Start Over-itis
Straddling two genres - where should I apply?
Straight Outta Compton
Strange Book Launch - Request for help
Stream of Consciousness (?) Writing
Submission call: Lesbian "book people" anthology [$40 per short story]
Submission Package Critique for YA Fantasy (Query
Submission: 2 questions
Submitted a short story. Still no response after a year...
Suggestions for researchers who want to contact the experts?
Sup.
Super Amari Universe
Supercessionism
Supermassive black holes found spiralling in at seven percent light speed
Supervisor for an English translation and maybe even more (desert fantasy novel)
Surprise Flash Contest $50
Surprising cheetah vs lioness encounters
Survey on Afrocentric Books
Swamped Agents: Try again later
Sweeping Changes is a real book now! Woohoo!
Sweet spot: After submission
Synonym for Starburst?
Synonyms for roar
Synopsis Length
Synopsize Me
t&a
Take a ride past Pluto
Target to remove Pink/Blue signage - People lose their minds
tattoos!~
Teacher tells a student he's looking "way too ISIS"...
Ted Cruz - Pro Polio?
Teen on trial for goading and urging her boyfriend to commit suicide
Teen shot by police in drug sting
Teen villains in YA... Your personal thought/experiences?
Teen villains in YA... Your personal thoughts/experiences?
tell me about your process
Ten important novels every aspiring SF writer should read
Tennessee County Wants To Opt Out of God's Wrath
Tennessee judge refuses to grant divorce
Tenses in flashbacks within past-tense stories
Texas Deputy Gunned Down Execution Style
Texas students protesting lax campus gun laws by carrying
Texas. School District Plans Lessons in Career Choice for Boys
Texas' new initiative to promote STEM fields.
Thank You
That is the age range for a main character in women's fiction
That Pope Again (forgiving abortions
That that thing
That's a wrap! First draft of Call of the Morrigu DONE!
that's it--Devin's book is officially queried.
The (Submission) Grinder is free and a great way to track flash fiction submissions
The Bear's Wife Omnibus Countdown Deal
The Beginning is My Death
The Best Science Fiction Films of the 21st Century
The Biden Scandal. Sort of. Maybe. I don't know
The Blind and Sexuality
The Case for Complex Dark Matter
The continuing migrant/refugee crisis in the EU
The Curse on Long Autumn Valley - Out Now!
The Daily Show With . . . Trevor Noah?
The Doll with The Tiger Teeth - A Noir Comic
The Dream Sequence: Beaten to death or still interesting?
The Fall Guy
The first three chapters are boring? What to do?
The Forgotten Flapper is out now!
The Girl in the Golden Hour
The Great American Songbook according to Youtube (and
The Iron Druid Chronicles. (Kevin Hearne)
The Last Poem Ever Written
The last short story to make you cry =
THE LILITU - new from Permuted Press!
THE LILITU available for pre-order from Permuted Press!
THE LILITU available for pre-order!
THE LILITU only .99 cents on Amazon!
The Mutant Genes Behind the Black Death
The new Vitruvian Man
The pernicious myth of the hollow woman
The premiere issue of Flash Bang Mysteries is here!
The Queen of Free's USB Windows Repair Kit
The Question Never Asked
The required formality of submission emails to agents?
The Scorch Trials
The Secret Life of Winnie Cox -- SALE! Now only 99p/99c
The sheer brilliance of apparent spammer stupidity
The Splat: New Network from Nickelodeon for 90s Cartoons
the state of short fantasy / sci-fi
the Swiss Army knife of internet trolling
The Tianjin Explosion
The Top 200 Fantasy Characters
The Wolves of Langabhat
Thematic prize cryptic crossword in the NADFAS Review
Theme
then suddenly dead in the water - help!
There should be a word for...
there was a problem starting
There's a Word For This...
there's tiny sandwiches
thesis freakout
Thin Air Magazine Call for Submissions and Call for Readers
THINGS I HATE ABOUT OCTOBER...
THINGS I HATE ABOUT SEPTEMBER...
Things you'd like to see brought back to fantasy
Think Outisde the Tortilla
This is what I'd look like if I were a muppet
This may in fact be poetry
This Prophet Speaks the Rhythm
This space for rent
This Teacher Is Sinister
Those IRL creepy moments.
Thoughtless Remarks
thoughts?
Thrasamund haila qiþiþ
Thread won't load if I am logged in
Three First Person POVS Too Much?
Three Rules for Writing a Novel
Three things not to use in fiction?
Thriller Betas needed
throat cut - missed voice box?`
Time to introduce myself!
Time To Make A Website!...With No Content?
Tiny House Publishers?
Tips on gradual loss of emotions?
To Blog or Not To Blog
to drink
To Everyone Here! You Are Such An Awesome Inspiration!
To hyphenate or not to hyphenate
To Pen Name or Not To Pen Name
To the LGBTQ Community: I'm sorry
To win a writing contest
Too many simple sentences?
too!" says Pluto
Top tips for aspiring and debut authors
Topics for a Horror Blog
Totally lost
Toxic spill
Training Troops in Ireland
transitions have me stuck
Translations of (Chinese) Poems -- A Linguistic Flavour
Translations through Babelcube
Trapped in the System: A Sick Doctor’s Story
Travelling Between Dimensions
Treating a crossbow wound: to remove
Trials
tribulations and travails of a toilet.
Triplicity Publishing
Tropes and Clichés
Trouble Starting at All
Trouble with AW mobile site
Trump vs Sanders - Who will win?
Trying to get read
Trying to remember the name of a submission database site
Trying to Start with a Campaign
Trying To Understand If There Is A Conscious Reason Behind This?
Twelve-year-olds in "Slenderman" attack to be tried as adults.
Twenty7 Books
Twitch at it again...
Twitter Picture Book Pitch Party
Two HS Football Players Could Face Charges for Tackling Referee
Two main characters in a novel summary
Two More Competitions Left $$$
Two spaces or one after periods?
TX!
U.S. bombs Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan
UGH!!!!! I just want to get pass this damn chapter!!!!
uh...
UK: When politics go mad. Jeremy Corbyn's very likely win
Um
Uncanny Magazine (editors-in-chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas)
Undertale
Unnatural Selection: 'Mother Robot' Builds Evolving Baby Bots
Unstuck
Update your Firefox
Updating Excerpts/Previews & Links
Urban Literary Agency
US Agents for International Writers
US electoral system explained
US Soldiers told to ignore child sexual abuse in Afghanistan
US-Mexico Border Crossing in 2007?
use multiple devices
Use of brand names
Using noncopyrighted images during blogathons
Various kinds of money
Vatican made of Legos
VCFA Student Literary Journal -- Synezoma
VEHEMENT
Venomous animals
VERY IMPORTANT DISCOVERY: Lava Cake @ home
Vicious on PBS
Video Game Hobbyist Game Development
Violent Hungarian camera woman apologizes...
Virus/Malware Protection
VLC and WMP vids no longer working
Volkswagen -- What Have You Done To Us?
Want to be part of a national epic poem?
Want to Buy a Piano Keyboard
Want to know how NOT to do it?
Wanted: Beta for approx. 3200 words
Wanted: Guest Posts for Halloween Event!
Wanting to try alligator
Wanting to write a novel based on some eras.
was the reason given. My second intro
Washington Post Reporter
Watching the sunset.
Water
Waterstones to stop selling Kindles
Wattpad experience?
Waves!
WDBJ7 Reporter Killed On Air
Web places for legally free books
Webcomics
Wed
Weirdest Way to Cover Up An Affair Ever?
Well
Well good evening everyone!
well me.)
Well this is something I didn't think through...
Wes Craven passes at 76
Wesley Lowery
Western/Horror
Westminster Abbey archeology
What are real estate bonds?
What are some different ways you'd like to see characters with mental disorders portrayed in MG
What are the best ways to improve your writing?
What are the Classics of Asian Literature
What are the short stories that everyone writes?
What can you do with a short(ish) play?
What constitutes one of those fifty cent words?
What do these sentences mean?
What do you call a ms that has been rewritten 10+ times
What do you call this type of character?
What do you do?
What do you guys think about short stories that take place over the phone?
What do you prefer to call your blog?
What does a sports manager do
What Does an Author Do for a Blog Tour?
What does this rejection mean?
What does voice driven mean?
What Hollywood star would you like to see star in an adaption of your book?
What if I get a publisher BEFORE an agent?
What if we're alone?
What is "Appropriate"?
What is "Dark Fantasy"?
What Is Proper Dialogue Spacing In Convo
What is the ideal size and format for a novel summary in the UK/USA/Canada
What is Wrong With School Choice?
What is your editing technique?
What is your favorite Archetype for YA books?
What is your primary use of Twitter as a writer?
What is your writing ritual or schedule?
What kind of advance marketing do publishers do when they give a book a million dollar advance?
What Made You Laugh Today?
What makes a human?
what makes a YA fantasy novel boring?
What makes for good prose?
What qualifies as adult content?
What should I make of this rejection?
What Song Makes You Physically Sick?
What to do when nobody will say why a story was rejected?
What To Do When You Are Being Racially Trolled?
What to do when you think all your stories and ideas are bad
what to do with lack of chapters
What to make of form Rs on fulls?
What word should I use?
What words trip up your fingers?
What Would you Do? - The Just-below-midlist-blues
What would YOU do? (YA murder mystery question)
What would your advice have been?
What writers
What's on your mind?
What's the best writing exercise you've ever done?
What's the Key to Good Writing Flow?
What's up with 1de0mancer?
What's your guilty pleasure when it comes to clichés?
What's your next step?
When a potentially bad scene is blocking you
When exactly is life supposed to get easier?
When is a character too powerful?
When is it okay to use an ellipsis?
When something isn't worth saving
when submitting
When the First is the Greatest
When to get a beta?
When To Hyphenate MadeUp Words & Terms (for SciFi & Fantasy)
When to query
When to reveal/explain speculative elements?
When you CAN'T WRITE: Work on your writing anyway
When you start a new one
Where are all the ace AWers?
Where Can I Sell This? The NYC MTA Rejected It For Subway Use...
Where can I submit my story?
Where do you sell your erotica ebooks?
Where do you start?
Where does M-Grades end and YA begin?
Where does my stuff belong?
Where guns don't work but 'cars' do...
Where is the disconnect?
Where is the line between giving advice and re-writing the story for them?
Where the hell is my mail? (yes
which do you prefer?
Which drawing program do you use for your digital art?
Which is the best book for lists of angents/publishers in UK and US?
Which social media site to go with?
Which YA authors inspire your own writing the most?
Who gets shot by the police?
Who has spent three or more years on writing one novel?
Who is that actor? What was that movie?
Who Needs Grammar?
Who Was Amelia Boynton Robinson? RIP
Who's on Goodreads? ("1 book
Who's Online request
Who's the best company to use to Produce the e-book or physical book
Why Am I So Fascinated By The Obscenely Rich?
Why do agents switch agencies?
Why do I sabotage my work?
Why do we like to be high?
Why do/don't you use WriMos?
Why is all weather now considered horrifying?
Why is there so much poetry in YA/teen lit?
Why Pearl Harbor failed while Titanic succeeded
Why romance is classed as „women`s fiction” ?
Why there are criminals
Why Was Eoin Colfer's YA Title
Why would a perfectly good novel be rejected by so many agents?
Why would you kill?
Windows 10 + Boot Camp = Clean Install (and that's where things get weird)
Wine soup?
Winter Contest?
Wise Marketing
withholding info from the reading and when to fill them in
Woman runs a marathon without a tampon to prove a point
Women in m/m
Won 1st place for my non-fiction story in the Oregon Writers Colony Contest!!
WordPress Malware Campaign: Now What?
Words
Words for courtyard garden that works in both US and UK
Working From Home Gets Better and Better :)
Working in Theme
Working with Publisher's Marketing Department? Any TIPS?
World ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus
World Topless Day - Equality for Men & Women?
Would it still be a romance novel if the main character doesn't fall in love?
Would you keep reading if...
Would you Rather? – Political Edition
Write something everyday. Maybe have a novel by the end of the year.
Writer looking for help with Query Letter and Synoopsis
writer's handbook - publisher list resources
Writer's Relief
Writers block or is it something else?
Writing a story set in a school
Writing a successful Goodreads ad?
Writing a trans girl in a Young Adult Fantasy - language issues?
Writing about a culture not your own
Writing again! Got a blogging position and sold a reprint. (Largely about depression)
Writing an epic fantasy story
Writing buddies?
Writing Buddy (if anyone still needs one)!
Writing buddy for Fantasy
Writing chapters vs. writing scenes
Writing Conference suggestions & opinions needed please
Writing Conferences in Midwest?
Writing enhancement software?
Writing for anthologies - or is it me?
Writing for money
Writing more than one story at a time
Writing rituals
Writing Styles as Great Clans from Legend of the Five Rings milieu
Writing two novels at the same time
Writing with a Scottish Accent
WWII romance idea
Xanax
YA banned books week
YA fantasy versus adult fantasy
yeah. So it turns out i can write well...
yes
Yesterday I walked through this door...
Yet Another "Is This YA or NA?" Thread
Yet Another Presidential Candidate - and Party
Yet one more reason not to shop at Whole Foods:
Yoruba
You Can No Longer Climb Mt. McKinley...
you decide.
You know you're back in Australia when...
you may as well join millions like you.
you pay?
You'd better watch out! You'd better not cry! KRAMPUS IS COMING TO STEAL YOUR VERY SOUL!
Young man takes down hate preacher in the most Scottish way possible
your fairy tales...
Your Opinion: The Future of Publishing
your parables
Your worst gig?
You’re in the 1 Percent
Youtube and Vimeo related question
Zero Sum Game is on sale for 99 cents WHEEEEE! Read what AWers say about it!
Zoboomafoo episode I just don't understand
Zombie spiders
행쇼- Be happy

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