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Craft Discussion topics

• Question about a Police Officer (1 2)
• Can A Romance Work Without a Conclusion?
• Smart Characters
• The answer to all your questions
• RWA update (1 2)
• Contracting on Proposal (1 2)
• Characters You Hate
• Words of Wisdom (1 2 3 4 5 6)
• Time Elapsed (1 2)
• What Are You Working On (1 2)
• What Keeps You Reading? (1 2)
• On Writing
• Reader's Rant
• e-books (1 2 3 4)
• Blogging about a WIP
• What comes first?
• Characterization
• Age of Characters
• Writing Workshops and Seminars (1 2)
• What Are You Writing? (1 2 3)
• Characters
• Hiring a Freelance Editor
• Cliffhangers
• Fun!
• Amazon Reviews (1 2)
• A heartfelt thanks to forumites (1 2 3)
• A Writer's Website (1 2 3)
• Getting the description in
• Keyboard Widows
• Kindle Creepiness (1 2)
• To describe or not to describe?
• Editors and editing (1 2 3 4 5)
• Story Arcs and Tension
• Coming out stories?
• A New Phrase about Craft for me.
• new cover painting for my ebook
• Year's Best Lesbian Fiction 2008 (1 2)
• Developing Stories
• so... this supposedly short story...
• writer's block - a twelve-step program (1 2)
• Who's Your Favorite Character
• Storing Pictures
• Workshops etc: what have you learned? (1 2)
• A question about past stories posted on various sites
• 2009 Lambda Literary Award winners
• Taste Threshold
• Lavender Ink is here! (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• Info Dumps
• Blurbs (1 2)
• To Many Characters???
• What Do You Write and Why???
• What is Erotic vs What is Just Wrong??? (1 2 3)
• My MS is too short
• What's Personal and What's Not????
• The Moral Writer (1 2)
• Do You Care About Locale???? (1 2)
• rejections that are something other
• Confident Writers vs. Delusional Writers (1 2)
• Physical responses (1 2)
• Favourite Characters?
• Google vs You-the-Author: You just lost
• Tolkein and eBooks
• Dictionary for Writers
• do straight women read f/f?
• How times have changed writers, maybe
• Capitalizations question(s)
• 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
• Chapter length
• Infodumps (1 2)
• Self-promotion etiquette (1 2 3 4)
• Taxes and the British Writer
• What are the boundaries for YA fiction?
• Writing catch-up
• MS Word or Whatever you use???? (1 2)
• Being passive
• Persistence is the Key
• Recommended reference books (1 2 3)
• Surprising yet inevitable
• Historical Fiction: Humour and Dialogue (1 2 3)
• The First Scene, the First Chapter
• Setting up manuscripts
• Waiting Until I'm a Good Enough Writer
• What Comes First??? (1 2)
• Short Stories
• How Do I Do This???? (1 2)
• Lammies '09
• Extending the length of your MS (1 2)
• Off of v Out of (1 2)
• Fan Fiction--Pros? Cons? (1 2 3 4)
• Plot Outline killed my story
• A Point of View (1 2 3 4)
• English 101
• Dedication and Acknowledgements (1 2 3)
• Perseverence, or HH Is Always Right (1 2)
• Creating tension
• More on Self-Publishing
• The odds of getting accepted (1 2)
• Character Names (1 2)
• Rejection letters
• Xena convention Writer's Workshop
• Writing in the Age of Distraction
• Inspiring images
• Self Editing, or not
• Waiting for a submission response (1 2)
• Getting Your Manuscript Ready for an Editor (1 2 3)
• Would You Flip For Money or Fame?
• Plot driven vs Character driven
• Writing by Cue Card (1 2)
• The right word (1 2)
• What's the Hardest Part
• NaNoWriMo 2008 (1 2 3 4)
• Unusual POVs
• Does Talking Help
• Romance Good vs Evil Opinions
• Characters
• Gotten (1 2)
• What Comes First???
• Disorientated v Disoriented (1 2)
• Has your Beta reader ever told you not to...
• Passionate about writing?
• Getting in the Mood
• Help for a Newbie (1 2)
• Titles (1 2)
• Local Flavour vs Americanis(Z)ation? (1 2)
• 25-50-25 (1 2)
• Word of the day (1 2 3)
• you or your
• Starting sentences (1 2)
• Word Wars!
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10
• Your Ideal Reader?
• Current State of Lesbian Fiction (1 2 3 4)
• Beta Readers
• Holidays
• Fewer and Less
• Affect vs Effect
• Free Rice: Vocab and Grammar games
• The structure of an anthology
• Alright vs All Right
• Writing Habits: Chapter switching
• Idea Stories: How do you develop them?
• RUE: Resist the Urge to Explain
• Dialogue punctuation
• Passed/Past (1 2)
• Covers (1 2)
• The Apostrophe
• The Lesbian Fiction Forum RULES!!! (1 2)
• What's a Kiwi? (was: writing by cue card)
• Foreign Languages and made up words in fiction (1 2)
• Finding Value in Poor Fiction
• Perspective
• Conflict
• Readers pre publishing
• Author/Reader Relationship
• A Question of Style
• Roll the Dice
• Research Resources
• Story, plot, characters, and heroes
• Proof reading.
• How to write good dreams/flashbacks (1 2)
• Character as Setting (1 2)
• What comes first????
• Think or thing? (1 2 3 4)
• when Spell-Check Goes Bad
• I Wish I Wrote Differently (1 2 3)
• Careful, or I'll put you in my novel
• "Don't Be An Asshat." (1 2)
• Cool research tool(s)
• Are We Objective About Our Own Writing??? (1 2 3 4)
• What do you do when you get discouraged? (1 2)
• Breaking into mainstream (1 2)
• What software do you use?
• Writing objective
• Science Fiction vs Fantasy (1 2 3 4)
• What Works
• Comedy in a story??? (1 2 3)
• What Ruins the Mood for you??? (1 2)
• Is She Really Lesbian? (Take N) (1 2 3)
• What's in the box? (1 2 3)
• Reader's Expectations
• Words, words, words, words, words (1 2)
• Defining the Horror genre
• Online Lexicon? (1 2 3)
• Voice. What exactly IS that? (1 2)
• Slogging through the novel
• Saints & Sinners
• The opening hook
• POV (1 2 3)
• When you write, what aspects of it do you think about?
• The Devil's in the Details (1 2)
• Chapter: Title & Length
• Tinkering vs Rewrite (1 2)
• Show me a story! Free-to-read short stories in lesfic (1 2 3 4)
• The book-a-year hamster wheel
• Thoughts on Editing
• Genre vs Genre w/Romance (1 2)
• Lamda Awards announced
• Do Your Characters Talk To You (1 2 3)
• Word count (1 2)
• Want help with Spanish, French, some Italian? (1 2)
• The reader, the writer
• Taking risks in fiction (1 2)
• Madam Authors, Could This Be You??? (1 2 3 4)
• Characterization (1 2)
• Your Work and Your Partner (1 2)
• So What Comes First???? (1 2)
• Position is everything (1 2 3)
• Scenes and Their Content (1 2)
• Grammar correction (1 2 3)
• Help with Homophones (1 2)
• For All The Newbies
• Show vs Tell (1 2)
• POV Point of View (1 2 3)
• Writer's Writing (1 2 3)
• Horror Genre conventions and reader expectations (1 2 3)
• Book Awards
• Characters ...Where do they come from? (1 2 3)
• inspiration
• Questions for Readers (1 2)
• "The Writer's Toolbox"
• Historical or Historical Fiction (1 2 3)
• Question for Editors (1 2)
• Getting Started
• Dream as Muse
• Collaboration
• Building Up the Main Character
• Passage of time.
• Over used phrases and words of the year.
• Virtual Editor
• The Role of Plot (1 2)
• Lesbian vs Straight in Cultures other than American (1 2 3 4 5)
• Open Rejection Letter (1 2)
• read well, write well? (1 2 3 4 5)
• review of Samuel DeLany's "On Writing"
• Why We Read the Ending First (1 2)
• Phrases that make you think
• "Saidisms", she groaned
• On not winning the Nobel Prize
• Lines I wish I'd written
• Short Stories vs. Longer Stories
• We'd Like to Encourage Everyone
• Time Hops (1 2)
• Scenes
• Learning the Craft (1 2)
• Problems Posting On-line stories
• Writing for self vs Writing for Readers (1 2)
• Chapter "prologues" (1 2)
• Categories (1 2)
• Blocked Creative Pipes
• Organization (1 2 3)
• Flashbacks??
• Submissions?
• Recipe for a world (1 2)
• I DARE YOU (1 2)
• Cutting, Trimming, Pruning and all of the rest
• Ghost writing
• "I have just written a piece of crap" (1 2 3 4)
• Writing Horror
• unstoppable force meets immovable objects: plot or character (1 2 3)
• For the Fantasy writers
• Characterisation: Straight vs Lesbian (1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
• Intuition and Creativity (1 2)
• Writing for video games
• Overused Plot Line
• Setting as a character (1 2 3)
• Nicole Brossard on lesbians writing (1 2)
• You Tube ad "Just About Write"
• Personal Knowledge vs Good Writing
• Who needs punctuation and standarised spelling?
• What Makes Really Good Writing Good?
• apostrophe or no apostrophe
• Writing Environment
• Is There Anything You Won't Read (1 2)
• What Do You Hate In Books (1 2 3 4)
• Does publisher matter to the reader? (1 2 3)
• Non-Linear Narratives (1 2 3)
• Epilogues
• So, you have your idea, what next?
• What Have We Learned? (1 2 3)
• Details in the Writing (1 2)
• Depicting Violence = what is too much?
• Characterisation What Does It Entail?
• The What-Not-To-Do's
• Over Writing
• Pacing and Rhythm, Are they the same?
• Call for Help with translations into FRENCH
• Point of View: close 3rd person
• Recognising your limits (1 2 3 4)
• Paperback Writer's Virtual workshop
• writing in first person (1 2)
• words that have to be written
• Why is it... (1 2)
• HHHH: the Homophobic Houston Hyatt Hotel
• Names: Randomly Generating Them (1 2 3)
• What do you like about writing? (1 2)
• Blocks???
• Sequels?
• Short-listed
• Beta reading (1 2)
• HELP, EMOTIONAL PAIN (1 2)
• "Stop Reading and Start Writing"
• Article by Erica Jong about female writers (1 2 3)
• Author Readings
• Characterisation: what works for you? (1 2)
• On Writing Horror: Some Questions (1 2)
• J Russ interview
• Popularity or Critical Acclaim? (1 2 3)
• Deal with the devil. (1 2 3)
• You COULD make it up
• GLBT writers workshop (1 2)
• Complex Writing -- inspired by TVM thread :) (1 2)
• Free online course about fiction writing
• The chicken or the egg?
• Point of View: tight 1st/3rd versus the external narrator (1 2)
• Craft Point--Peeve (1 2 3 4)
• World Building (1 2 3 4 5)
• Speculative Fiction--what makes it work and what doesn't? (1 2 3)
• Copyright: a small rant (1 2)
• Thinking About Writers and Writing
• Points of View: Handling Multiples (1 2 3)
• Blurbs
• More erotica writing comments (1 2)
• Character driven or plot driven?
• Unicows, installment 3
• Setting and description (1 2 3 4)
• Unapegacows, installment 2
• UNIPEGACOWS for HH and DEB (1 2)
• for the SF geeks (1 2 3)