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Writing 101

Moderators: Dragonchilde, fshk

	Subject	Replies	Created	Last reply
	Trademarks, Copyrights, and Pop Culture References in your Novel	173	4 months ago by Dragonchilde	4 days ago by Leonara Declamara
	Am I plagiarizing J.K. Rowling?	127	4 months ago by Dragonchilde	4 days ago by Leonara Declamara
	How to Write an Accent	130	4 months ago by Dragonchilde	25 days ago by Starscream
	How much swearing is too much?	26	3 days ago by Lisa.Vail	about 6 hours ago by Katsuro
	How Do You Construct a Well-Executed Plot Twist?	3	1 day ago by Dennis Dunjinman	about 7 hours ago by Typing Chimp
	Creating Characters: Questionnaires Don't Work!	20	13 days ago by littlewonder	about 16 hours ago by Kimberly Dawn
	Does Anyone Else Write Out of Order?	11	about 1 month ago by doctor confidence	3 days ago by Webgoji
	How to pronounce this name?	11	19 days ago by FireDream	3 days ago by Webgoji
	Transcribing Personality To Paper	2	3 days ago by Fraust	3 days ago by Fraust
	Second Person Perspective	11	5 days ago by Webgoji	3 days ago by Gerd D.
	Including foreign languages?	15	3 months ago by Widom	3 days ago by Webgoji
	Legalities of using song lyrics in a free Kindle book?	2	15 days ago by Lisa.Vail	4 days ago by Leonara Declamara
	Apostrophes and quotation marks	3	9 days ago by onesecondglance	4 days ago by Leonara Declamara
	I made this WRITERS' CHEATSHEET, so I thought I'd share	83	4 months ago by quoll	6 days ago by PlasticSmoothie
	Too much dialogue?	8	19 days ago by jaxxon	8 days ago by Katsuro
	How to Stop Writing With Having A "Wall" Between You and Your Character.	4	about 1 month ago by Silver-Midnight	10 days ago by Earthsick
	How To Write Telepathy	7	16 days ago by ahniemann	10 days ago by Earthsick
	Representing Pride as a Character Flaw	4	18 days ago by firelight_cinderbrick	13 days ago by RobertLent
	Things that all writers should know	227	4 months ago by AlyRuth	15 days ago by Piper the Perfect
	One space or two after a period? + dialogue punctuation question	2	16 days ago by K.V. Briar	16 days ago by Aria617
	Unreliable narrators and POV	4	18 days ago by Chamomile-tea	17 days ago by mackenziebradley
	Pacing yourself	3	23 days ago by Princess_of_Quite-a-lot	18 days ago by lasalle202
	Outlines?	5	20 days ago by Mitsukai-aka	19 days ago by lasalle202
	Repeated words in a sentence you have written!!!	6	3 months ago by saunved	21 days ago by Notkieran
	How do you go about writing texts in a novel?	3	22 days ago by imawesome	21 days ago by Tex2S
	Quotes and punctuation	4	24 days ago by qwertz	23 days ago by qwertz
	Writing interrupted dialogue -vs- trailed off sentence?	10	25 days ago by Delyn	24 days ago by Delyn
	How NOT to create a character	3	about 1 month ago by acover4422	25 days ago by Red Queen
	Avoid overusing character names?	24	3 months ago by Madam_Hooligan	27 days ago by Mhazie
	Hyper-specific details, wonky?	13	2 months ago by Mo®	27 days ago by Earthsick

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