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Swain's formula: Flight path or Clipped wings? |
Michael R Hagan |
52 |
82166 |
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:56 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Do you outline? |
MarieDees |
48 |
50826 |
Friday, June 12, 2015 5:07 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Plotting a Trilogy - advice or links? |
NoellePierce |
26 |
42252 |
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 4:33 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Unhappy Endings and/or When We Aren't the Good Guys |
LilySea |
22 |
62679 |
Friday, February 5, 2016 7:39 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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The Purpose of the Prologue |
Marcie |
22 |
67008 |
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:14 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Loose ends: love 'em or hate 'em |
Marc Poliquin |
21 |
36244 |
Friday, November 23, 2012 6:16 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Calling all Series Writers! Story Development over Multiple Books? |
LilySea |
19 |
37987 |
Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:15 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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'Rules of Story' |
Nicki Hill |
18 |
81307 |
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:36 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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How Much of What you write is carefully planned and How Much is not? |
Tony Colina |
17 |
37109 |
Sunday, September 2, 2012 12:39 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Chapter length really does matter...or does it? |
Tawni Peterson |
15 |
29374 |
Monday, February 13, 2012 10:41 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Inciting Incidents, Catalysts, Premise and Debate |
Herb Mallette |
14 |
42254 |
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 2:14 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Is telling rather than showing ever acceptable? |
Rachel Russell |
14 |
38063 |
Thursday, November 21, 2013 4:14 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Time |
Bradley |
14 |
40678 |
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:42 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Managing Tension: Pulling the Reader Through the Story |
Elizabeth Moon |
13 |
41030 |
Monday, October 14, 2013 4:57 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Narrative Time |
J Boone Dryden |
13 |
25283 |
Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:24 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Titles. They're Hard to Come Up With. |
Nefasti |
12 |
30571 |
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:17 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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How do you deal with going back and forth in time? |
Lucy Silag - Book Country Director |
11 |
40288 |
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 11:31 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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What do you do when your characters rebel? |
Maria Granovsky |
11 |
31809 |
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:53 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Instinct in Plotting |
Amy Sterling |
11 |
33774 |
Thursday, August 4, 2011 7:06 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Origin Story: Where to Include It? |
VA Diaz |
10 |
36356 |
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:02 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Sex, Romance and Relationships in Books that Aren't Romances |
LilySea |
10 |
40175 |
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:27 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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The Significance of Plot without Conflict |
MariAdkins |
9 |
35370 |
Saturday, July 7, 2012 12:38 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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The Writer as the Movie Director |
M Romero Nunn |
9 |
28250 |
Monday, February 20, 2012 2:41 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Making parallels with myths--question! |
NoellePierce |
9 |
42665 |
Sunday, June 22, 2014 1:46 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Structure |
LJA |
7 |
24499 |
Thursday, July 2, 2015 4:47 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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The Dreaded 'Middle' |
Alexandra Hartley |
7 |
50914 |
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 1:31 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Showing Versus Telling |
Danielle Bowers |
7 |
23905 |
Friday, March 9, 2012 10:00 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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The Effectiveness of Chapter Titles |
J Boone Dryden |
7 |
36940 |
Monday, March 23, 2015 4:32 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Exposition... what's not/enough? |
Michael Guarneiri |
7 |
22705 |
Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:01 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Should she say yes or no? |
JFSurvivor |
6 |
29753 |
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 3:03 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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knitting in subplots |
Lucy Basey |
6 |
29283 |
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 2:44 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Chapter length questions |
Wonderdoodle |
6 |
30672 |
Saturday, November 1, 2014 9:47 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Show don't Tell -Your opinions on 2013 Edgar First Book Nominees |
Three Borzoi |
5 |
37611 |
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:02 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Getting past the first chapter... |
Tabetha Waite |
5 |
23348 |
Monday, December 5, 2011 3:59 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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A Decade of Storyline |
ME Chick |
5 |
46740 |
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 4:05 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Climax chapter issue |
Linnea Ren |
4 |
30794 |
Sunday, June 22, 2014 1:59 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Question of the Drama Queens??? |
Mac Bizzo |
4 |
27139 |
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:58 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Point of Telling |
Lucy Silag |
4 |
38980 |
Monday, August 19, 2013 9:25 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Understanding Scenes and Sequels |
momgotshocked |
4 |
27498 |
Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:22 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Summary versus Scene |
InkMuse |
4 |
24712 |
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:52 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Snoozefest? |
JPKippling |
3 |
24963 |
Thursday, June 18, 2015 7:26 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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How IDENTITY THIEF taught me enough is enough |
NoellePierce |
3 |
23120 |
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:50 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Reading a series: The good, the bad, and the ugly. |
Joani Davis |
3 |
23545 |
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:30 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Do misdirection and ambiguity bother readers or keep them engaged? |
Stephen Wechselblatt |
3 |
25797 |
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 11:42 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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What's the point of a Prologue? |
Timothy Maguire |
3 |
31025 |
Monday, November 28, 2011 1:24 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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How To Combat A Sudden Change Of Pace |
A Turcotte |
3 |
38913 |
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 4:09 AM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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the story AFTER the guy gets the girl |
Paroma |
3 |
29176 |
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 1:37 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Serial or Series |
S. T. Collier |
2 |
22223 |
Monday, April 6, 2015 2:48 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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The beauty of a swiftly moving plot! |
Lucy Silag |
2 |
25343 |
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 11:12 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |
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Falling in love |
JFSurvivor |
1 |
31230 |
Thursday, December 17, 2015 9:09 PM ![](/App_Themes/BC-Discussions/icon_latest_reply.gif) |