How to Write a Book Outline
In my recent article, “I Want to Write a Book!,” I mentioned the importance of writing with an outline. That caused some people to ask about the best way to write a book outline. Here are a few techniques that have worked for me and others.
Your outline may be created on your computer or you [...]
“I Want to Write a Book!”
How long have you been saying that you want to write a book? The truth is that you don’t want to write a book, you want to have written one! But the only way to get to the point where you are the author of a book is to write it (or hire a ghostwriter, [...]
Critiquing Coffee and Donuts – Online Critique Groups
I love those little donuts covered with powdered sugar, but I don’t want to be cleaning their dust off my blue jeans when I’m taking part in a critique session. That sort of thing happens during the let’s-have-coffee-and-chat break at the average face-to-face critique group for writers, doesn’t it?
I prefer an on-line critique group. All [...]
Excuse Abuse
Many writers are Wanna-B’s because they have a story or see stories all around them and don’t know where to start writing. In the two writers clubs and writing workshops that I run, I tell Wanna-B’s there is no secret beyond putting fingers to keys. However, I don’t recommend they start on the story until [...]
Becoming a Bestselling Author is Hard Work!
Ready to write your first book?
More power to you.
Ready to live in luxury from the royalties?
Time for a reality check.
I won’t waste space with a lot of statistics on how hard it really is to make money writing. That approach is not only boring and negative, it’s futile.
Everyone who conceives the perfect book expects to [...]
Troubled by Point of View? Particularly OMNI?
Ten times out of ten Omni doesn’t work and you’re left wondering why. “Omni is suppose to head-hop!” you cry.
Ready, Set, Write
So you finally started that novel you’ve been promising to write. And, after some false starts, you think you’ve got the hang of it. One thing for sure, you’re learning that writing is not easy. Whoever said, “I hate writing but love having written” summed this labor of love perfectly. I know this first hand. [...]
What Do Your Customers Want? Find Out With Skribit
If there is one thing I know, that’s book marketing, and from time to time I learn about a neat new tool that makes selling books online just a little bit easier.
I would like to introduce you to Skirbit. Skirbit.com allows an author to easily add a small widget to their blog [...]
Concise Writing
As I tell the authors whose books I edit, it’s relatively easy to write a whole book. You just do a mind dump. Then you hire me to help you clean it up. It’s that “cleaning it up” part that becomes a challenge. We tend to love our words, especially all those nifty adjectives and [...]
Get a Good Computer Keyboard
Sometimes I think I’m the only person on the planet without a BlackBerry. I must be the only person who doesn’t sit in restaurants or theaters or coffee shops texting to my friends. I’m really boring, I guess—when I’m sitting at a keyboard, it’s right here, and I’m sitting here because I’m writing something I [...]
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