5 Tips For Creating Characters Readers Can’t Wait to Come Back To. Creating unique characters is something every fiction author has to focus on because it can make the difference in writing a book that resonates with the audience, and that means sales. I love the Lee Child Jack Reacher novels because the character stands up for justice in a cruel world in every book, and I am also trying to create a memorable heroine in my own Morgan Sierra in the ARKANE thrillers. But what is it about characters that keep us coming back and how can we achieve the same affect in our novels? Today, guest author Jen Blood shares some tips. From television to movie franchises to fiction in every genre imaginable, the world loves a good series. But why? Plot is certainly part of it, but, with rare exceptions, we can just as easily see the same story played out in a standalone feature.
Not so fast. (1) Know Your Character. Before you publish that first book, I think it’s always a good idea to know your main character(s) inside and out. . (2) No One Lives in a Vacuum. What Defines Writing Success? Everyone defines success a little differently. Some define it as owning a giant house. Others define it as reaching a goal. In the writing community there are countless ways to measure success—completing a first draft, landing an agent, winning a writing competition, receiving that first royalty check, writing a hilarious tweet that gets retweeted several times, etc. So what does it mean to be a successful writer? Personally I think writers struggle to define success because there’s always another hill to climb.
The first time I ever experienced a taste of success was not after I started writing my Questions & Quandaries column in Writer’s Digest, but when I received my first piece of fan mail. So here’s my Q to you: Will you ever consider yourself successful as a writer? Man-booker-prize-what-lessons-can-aspiring-writers-draw-from-alison-moores-progress-8209241.
Take Alison Moore, whose first novel The Lighthouse (Salt Publishing) is a strong contender for the award (to be announced on 16 October). Her route to publication feels very current, reflecting a time of huge change within the literary landscape. As she explains, "My dad was a maths lecturer and my mum was an administrator and they were both big readers – there were a lot of books in the house. We used the local library and the mobile library. Each of us three children had our own books in our rooms too. I read a lot of Enid Blyton and I liked [Astrid Lindgren's] Pippi Longstocking. I also remember my dad reading [LM Montgomery's] Anne of Green Gables to me and my sister – I went on to read all the Anne books myself. I sometimes started a diary although I always tailed off, but I still like to keep one when I'm abroad.
" For Moore, "Everyone writes at school, of course. As we talked, I tried to isolate the patterns of behaviour likely to benefit the would-be published author. 1. 2. 3. Writer Beware ® Blogs! Writing Tips to Make You a Better Writer. 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer. When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult.
Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” Today, writing well is more important than ever. Far from being the province of a select few as it was in Hemingway’s day, writing is a daily occupation for all of us — in email, on blogs, and through social media. It is also a primary means for documenting, communicating, and refining our ideas.
So what can we do to improve our writing short of hanging ourselves? 1. Don’t just plan to write—write. 2. [The] Resistance knows that the longer we noodle around “getting ready,” the more time and opportunity we’ll have to sabotage ourselves. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 10 Writing Tips from the Masters. As the world becomes increasingly digital, writing becomes more important. This is especially true for non-writers.
If you work in an office, the majority of your communications are made with text by email or IM.Whether you like it or not, your ability to exchange ideas, collaborate with others, and ultimately succeed, hinges on the ability to write effectively.Earlier this week, K. Stone laid out a process to help you write faster, better, and easier. To follow up, here are 10 timeless tips to help you improve style and substance, straight from the pens of humanity’s finest authors. 1. Cut the boring parts I try to leave out the parts that people skip. Unless you’re writing for personal reasons alone, you need to consider the attention of your readers. Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very;” your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
I used to feel that using words like “really”, “actually”, or “extremely” made writing more forceful. 40 Twitter Hashtags for Writers. By Simon Kewin If you use Twitter, you’re probably already familiar with the idea of hashtags. These are simply a way of categorizing particular tweets by including within them a keyword prefixed with the hash or “pound” (#) symbol. So, for example, tweets containing writing advice will often contain the “#writetip” tag. The point of this is to make it easier to find all tweets containing writing advice : you just search for “#writetip”. 7 Excellent Tools to Publish Students Work.
There is nothing much rewarding for students than to see their accomplished work being published and celebrated with others. This is very much motivating and is a strong impetus for them to achieve more and work harder. There are several online tools that you as a teacher can use to host your students work and share them with the whole class and as well as parents .Below are some tools that can help you do that. Check them out : 1- Flipsnack Fipsnack is an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications ideal for publishing students work. 2- Issuu This is another popular website where you can upload and share your students work very easily and for free. 3- Tikatok Tikatok lets you easily create an unlimited books online . 4- Mixbook Mixbook lets you make completely customizable photo books, yearbooks, cards, and calendars and many more. 5- ePub Bud 6- Lulu Lulu is a website that lets you publish print books and ebooks for free.
Author interview no.453 with writer Deborah Nicholson « Morgen Bailey's Writing Blog. Welcome to the four hundred and fifty-third of my blog interviews with novelists, poets, short story authors, biographers, agents, publishers and more. Today’s is with murder mystery and children’s author and playwright Deborah Nicholson. A list of interviewees (blogged and scheduled) can be found here. If you like what you read, please do go and investigate further. Morgen: Hello, Deborah. Please tell us something about yourself, where you’re based, and how you came to be a writer. Deborah: My name is Deborah Nicholson and I’m from Calgary (in the gorgeous foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Canada).
The truth is I’ve always been a writer. Morgen: Woo hoo! Deborah: I generally write murder mysteries. Morgen: Spot on… wow. Deborah: I publish under my own name. Morgen: :) Have you had any rejections? Deborah: I’ve had hundreds of rejections. Morgen: Exactly. Deborah: I actually won the Pain Awareness Award for my play, The Pain Diaries: a love story. Morgen: Top ones certainly. ** NEW!! Star Trek (2009) – Five Plot Point Breakdowns. Screenplay Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi Movie Time: 127 minutes James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) meets Uhura (Zoe Saldana) in a bar in Iowa. Kirk attempts to flirt with her, only to end up in a fistfight with three other Starfleet recruits before Senior Officer Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) breaks up the fight. 2.
Inspired by his conversation with Pike, Kirk decides to join Starfleet and shows up at the Riverside shipyard where the USS Enterprise is being built. 3. Pike is ordered by Nero (Eric Bana) to come aboard the Romulan spacecraft. 4. The Romulan ship has deployed a drill down to Earth. The older Spock (Leonard Nimoy) meets the younger Spock and explains his actions, informing the younger Spock that he helped Kirk directly so that the two would form a meaningful friendship. Thecreativepenn. I love answering your questions and I’m always happy to share what I’ve learned on the journey, but recently I have been receiving the same question over and over again, namely, “Help, my book isn’t selling.
What can I do?” Most of the time people include a link to their book on Amazon and I can see immediately why they aren’t making any sales, because although I’m an author, I’m a reader first and I’ve been shopping for books on Amazon for years. My Amazon #1 bestselling book, How To Market A Book covers everything in details but the following checklist will also help you identify your problem and solve it quickly. I have also included lots of links so you can find all the extra material on this (ever-growing!) Site. [As always, these are not rules, because there are no rules in this crazy, fast-moving self-publishing world. 1. Print books can be a good idea if you have specific reasons around wanting print.
So first off, get your ebook published. 2. Amazing cover for a classic book 3. 4. 5.