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Thursday, 11 October 2007

Ask Sally - The Questions So far

I thought I'd put a list here of the questions I've answered as they've come in (I've already got a backlog!) Please read this before sending in your question as there's a chance your question has already been answered. (Perhaps not in these early days, but as the feature grows).

Ask Sally #1 Timing Submissions

Ask Sally #2 Using Brand Names

Ask Sally #3 Response Times

Ask Sally #4 Formatting Work

Ask Sally #5 Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation

Ask Sally #6 Giving Up The Day Job and Celebrity

Ask Sally #7 Getting Paid For Your Writing

Ask Sally #8 Copyright and Ideas

Ask Sally #9 When Do I Get Paid?

Ask Sally #10 Finding the Right Markets

Ask Sally #11 Writing Courses

Ask Sally #12 Putting Your Work Online

Ask Sally #13 Reasons for Rejecting Work

Ask Sally #14 Rules and Advice

Ask Sally #15 Survival Tips for NaNoWriMo

Ask Sally #16 Paying Others to Publish Your Work

Ask #17 Getting Into an Anthology

Ask Sally #18 Etiquette Regarding Feedback from an Editor

Ask Sally #19 Writing Dialogue

Ask Sally #20 Finding an Online Writing Community

Ask Sally #21 Presenting Your Manuscript

Ask Sally #22 Point of View

Ask Sally #23 Plot Ninjas

Ask Sally #24 Small Press/Local Competitions

Ask Sally #25 Romance v Erotica v Pornography

Ask Sally #26 - Writing Well Defined Characters

Ask Sally #27 Using Online Critique Groups and Being Published

Ask Sally #28 Finding the Right Title

Ask Sally #29 US v UK Markets

Ask Sally #30 Finding an Agent or Publisher

Ask Sally #31 - Addressing Editors

Ask Sally #32 - Competition Entry Fees

Ask Sally #33 - Dialogue and Italics

2 Comments - Thank you!:

womagwriter said...

New question for you, Sally.

What's a plot ninja? I've seen the term on writing sites, and you sa you've put some in your nano first chapter. Can you explain what they are, whether they're good or bad, and why you have them.

thanks!

SallyQ said...

Great one, Womagwriter. I will expand on it later :-)