Book Building: The Sandwich Method
Ideas are flooding your head, grasping for your attention during every waking moment and demanding to be written. It’s good that you decided to START your book off on the right foot, but now it’s time to write and you’re stumped. This isn’t regular ole writers block either. This is the fundamental challenge of how […]
Targeting Your Audience
The most important variable in storytelling is the audience, your readers. As extensive as your expertise may be regarding your narrative, once readers take over, the interpretation is entirely up to them. Suggestive lines you had implanted to hint towards one thing might be read as pointing to another. Don’t be alarmed, that’s bound to […]
Battle of the Views: There’s No I in Them
It seems there’s been a heated debate surrounding point of view (POV) in novels lately. What’s better: First person or third person? What do readers enjoy more? What is most effective? The questions are endless, just as the arguments for and against each avenue. Even as you read this, I can hear people shouting , […]
How to Start and Finish with a Bang!
Hoist anchor! There’s a reader on the line! Sure, the middle of your novel may be grand, but without a hook to catch readers, they’ll swim off to another, tastier story. There are plenty of books on the shelf as it is. OK. Enough with the finishing metaphor. My point is, if the opening of […]
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