According to Publishers Weekly, the top 50 million books sold in the U.S. in 2009 were all written by the same 26 people. How does that happen? Think about it. Readers know their names. You can test this one. Are you famous? Absolutely no facility with the written word, no… Read more“4 Reasons Best Sellers Get to Suck & You Don’t”
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3 Reasons to Quit Writing, 3 Reasons Not to Quit Writing
3 REASONS TO QUIT It’s hard as hell. Boy, nobody warned you, did they? You were going to have fun. You had this incredible idea about a wonderful fictional world peopled by amazing characters, with internal and external conflict like the Fall of the Roman Empire. You had words and… Read more“3 Reasons to Quit Writing, 3 Reasons <em>Not</em> to Quit Writing”
5 Ways to Make Your Novel Inescapable
Never doubt that thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.—Margaret Mead We’ve backed up through your novel ala E.L. Doctorow’s taillights in the past few weeks, starting with the key to the best possible CLIMAX, followed by the key to the… Read more“5 Ways to Make Your Novel Inescapable”