Are you getting the story out of your head and onto the page in your opening chapter? Here’s how to recognize and shake off the burden of knowledge.
Writing
How to Start Your Book in the Right Place (and Save Your Reader from Boredom, Frustration and Despair)
In order to write a great first chapter for a book, you have to start in the right place. There are two main ways writers tend to get this wrong.
Are You Writing the Right Chord?
Do you write the right chord or fill your paragraphs with words that don’t move the story or premise forward because you feel you’ve got to fill up space?
Yank Your Reader Into Your Story With a Great Opening Line
It pays to write a great opening line that hooks your reader and yanks them into your story. A great first line serves as a promise and an invitation we can’t refuse.
3 Mistakes You Made Writing Your First Book (and How Not to Make Them Again)
By Jennie Nash In publishing, everything starts with the quality of the book. Today you’ll hear from editor and book coach Jennie Nash. In the course of her work, Jennie sees firsthand what authors tend to get wrong as they write their books–the rookie mistakes, the glaring errors, the fatal flaws. Her post today digs […]
How to Create Titles to Hook Your Readers
Are you sometimes stuck when it comes to adding a title to a blog or article? Would you like to create one with some snap, crackle and pop? Here are three of my favorite tools.
Wannabe Author to the Real Thing in 5 Steps
Wannabe Author to the Real Thing in 5 Steps by Judith Briles explains how to get unstuck and move forward and go from a wannabe author to the real thing this year.
So You Want to Write a Book? Just Do It!
So You Want to Write a Book? Just Do It! by Nina Amir explains how writing a book is like exercising and that at some point, if you truly want to become an author you have to stop finding excuses and start a book manuscript and just do it.
20 Ways to Become a More Productive Writer
20 Ways to Become a More Productive Writer by Nina Amir suggests ways writers can change to become more productive and achieve their book writing goals.
How to Create a Blog Plan for Any Type of Book
How to Create a Blog Plan for Any Type of Book by Nina Amir explains why planning to include book-related content on your blog, increases the likelihood readers find you and your book.
