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FAQs Index

• Answers to Questions About How to Write
• Answers to Questions About Publishing
• Answers to Questions About Literary Agents
• Answers to Questions About Editors
• Answers to Questions About Money
• Answers to Questions About the Business of Writing
• Answers to Questions About Going Pro
• Answers to Questions About Worldbuilding
• Answers to Miscellaneous Questions About Writing
• Answers to Questions About the FORWARD MOTION Writers' Pages
• Answers to the BIG THREE Questions (Which are: Will you read something I've written?, Will you collaborate with me?, and Will you introduce me to or recommend me to your agent?)

Quite some years ago now, I spun off the FAQs into a little writing board. Due to a whole lot of hard work by many, many people, it has since turned into a completely free online writers' community that at last check was careening toward five thousand members at something approaching the speed of light. If you don't find your question answered here, go to the Forward Motion Writers' Community and ask the folks there. Responses tend to be friendly, quick, well-thought-out, and varied.

Holly

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