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  • Structure And The Novel--The First 50 Pages
    We talked before about a novel’s opening line, and how important getting it just right is. So, now let’s say you’ve written that bang up first line, and now let’s focus on the rest of the book’s beginning—the first fifty pages.
    Posted: 2012-03-07
    Category: Writing
  • Shaping A Book
    I often say that books are more than the sum of their words. A real book is an entire entity—plot, organization, characterization, style, including all of the subheads for each one. Circling all of these things is the entire forest—the shape of the book.
    Posted: 2011-12-25
    Category: Writing
  • Writing Your Memoir
    Ever since Angela’s Ashes hit the scene, the Memoir genre has been hot. But one’s life story, no matter how tangled with twists and turns, how fraught with trials and tribulations, does not necessarily make for a compelling memoir.
    Posted: 2011-11-18
    Category: Writing & Speaking
  • 3 Steps To The Perfect Query
    Misconceptions abound about what a real query should be. The agents and editors I know don’t want to be ‘wowed.’ Nor do they want to be bored to tears.
    Posted: 2011-09-24
    Category: Writing & Speaking
  • Scenes Part 1—Setting
    The goal of any good book writing is to offer the reader an experience. Not just words on the page; not just a story told to; but a journey in which your reader is involved.
    Posted: 2011-09-01
    Category: Writing
  • Writing For The Spiritual Market
    The last decade or so, we’ve seen a huge surge in spiritually based books. They’ve sold so well (both fiction and non) that most of the big houses have some sort of spiritual imprint, running the gamut from Christian Fiction to Buddhist texts to New-Age works a la Hay House, etc.
    Posted: 2011-07-28
    Category: Writing & Speaking
  • Slaying Writing Demons
    Writing is a convoluted and intensely psychological process. Even those who say it comes easy and/or don't want to deal with all that mental 'mumbo jumbo' get caught in the same psychological traps as the rest of us.
    Posted: 2011-06-04
    Category: Writing & Speaking
  • Making Sense Of Editing In Today’s Market
    All writers need good editors. Once upon a time, a writer would work with her book editor at a publishing house to make the book the best it could be, and to further the author’s career as a writer. Well, Dorothy, that was before the tornado blew through town.
    Posted: 2011-04-27
    Category: Writing & Speaking