During a life spanning twenty-five age of book, movie, and television assignment, I’ve two above tools most admired: the yogic “chakras” for characterization, and Joseph Campbell’s imitation of the Hero’s Adventure for plot constitution.
These are not haphazard choices, nor were they selected as of the abounding able and considerate essays on their accord to acknowledged […]
Once you have an idea for a book and a plan for how to get it written and marketed, it’s time to put your brain to work with some writing exercises. Here are 10 different tips to help your brain get the ‘WRITE’ idea:
• When an idea comes to you, usually unexpectedly, it is time […]
One of the biggest misconceptions about getting a book published is that the publishing company will take care of the marketing. Generally speaking, that’s not true. There are basically three different ways to get your book published. You can self-publish your own book. You can use a small independent publisher or if you’re an established […]
There is a abundant deal of misunderstanding approximately what that specific department of literature called “Science Fiction” indeed consists of. Is it space-ships and monsters? Age machines? Galactic empires? Able-bodied, its all of those matters, and generally none of them.
Science Fiction, broadly speaking, is story-telling that deals with the force of organised experience on people. […]
Creating characters that are believable takes time and discipline. Creating dynamically real individuals and not imposing your own thoughts and impressions upon them is not easy to do, and is often the difference between a novel or screenplay that sits in a closet and one that finds its way around town and into the hands […]
Age ago at a presentation at the UCLA Space Writer’s Programme, I promised an audience to advise them to vanquish this beast once and for all. Subsequent, another instructor approached me and said “why did you affirm that to those bodies? It’s not imaginable.”
Bad woman. All she was saying is that SHE cannot breach writer’s […]
I hear it all the time from my students and at the seminars and workshops I lead. The writers that I work with are excited to work with a “real” writer. Most people define a “real” writer as one who is published. Therefore I, with three published novels and innumerable newspaper and magazine articles under […]
A large box arrives from a New York Publisher. It’s here&ndashYOUR BOOK! You hurriedly rip it open and take the first book out. There it is…YOUR NAME as the author of your first book. You forget to breathe and your heart skips a beat in excitement.
You caress the spine and read the title and your […]
As a successful author interested in building a business off your book, you must understand the difference between features and benefits. Features are tangible and benefits are intangible.
Features describe what a product is or has based on physical/tangible characteristics. On the other hand, benefits are feeling oriented.
Remember that the reason that people come to the […]
I have been writing professionally for more than two decades and teaching writing nearly that long. Every conference, every writing staff, and every class has always included some writer who asks: “How Can I Become A Better Writer?”
They don’t usually like my answer. “Practice writing every day and read to study the writing of others […]
