Lisa Burnett Elliott
My heartsong is my husband of 31 years Ed, my 4 children and 5 grandchildren. I'm a writer, genealogist, motorcycler rider, swordcollector and the rest of my song is in my bio. Author of My Lady Knight and A Knight's Revenge. I've been married to a great guy for 30 years. We have 4 kids and 5 grandchildren.Our kids grew up great and I take pride in that: we guided them and they choose the riight paths for themselves. My family is everything to me: they are what makes life worth living. I spend my time writing, reading, researching genealogy, redoing our house, collecting swords, going to Ren Faires, crocheting, cheering the Cowboys, riding motorcycles, dragracing and tooling around in a 5spd twin turbo Stealth that will knock your ass back if I kick in the turbos. It's a strange combination but it works.
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Writing a good novel is hard. That’s just life. If it were easy, we’d all be writing best-selling, prize-winning fiction. Frankly, there are a thousand different people out there who can tell you how to write a novel. There are a thousand different methods. In this article, I’d like to share with you what works for me. This page is the most popular one on my web site, and gets over a thousand page views per day, so you can guess that a lot of people find it useful. Good fiction doesn’t just happen, it is designed. For a number of years, I was a software architect designing large software projects. I claim that that’s how you design a novel — you start small, then build stuff up until it looks like a story.
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The strippers advised Gypsy Rose Lee that to be successful, she’d need a gimmick, something eye-catching that would grab the attention of audience members. Writers likewise need attention-attracting elements to steer the focus of their readers to the story in their hands (and keep it there). Books compete with TV, computers, movies, hand-held devices and who-knows-what-else for attention. If your book’s opening doesn’t capture the reader, doesn’t draw her into your tale, you’re going to lose her.
So, how do you entice your reader to stay with your book? You hook her, engage her with an incident from the life of your lead character. No, you don’t need to shoot someone or blow up a building and have your lead save someone from burning to death (even though those scenes work for action movies), but you do need to make the reader pay attention.