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The 500 Word Writing Buddy: 35 Inner Secrets For The New Writer

The 500 Word Writing Buddy: 35 Inner Secrets For The New Writer

by Alison Morton
The 500 Word Writing Buddy: 35 Inner Secrets For The New Writer

The 500 Word Writing Buddy: 35 Inner Secrets For The New Writer

by Alison Morton

Overview

Burning to write your novel? And publish it? But don't know where to start?

This book will reveal how to:

  • structure your book
  • develop your characters
  • introduce conflict
  • weave setting and plot together
  • edit and prepare your manuscript for publication

You'll learn about:

  • mainstream and self-publishing
  • genres
  • marketing and selling your book

And about living the writer's life:

  • why you write
  • your writing place
  • interacting with other writers
  • the write/life balance

Based on a successful series of articles in The Deux-Sèvres Monthly Magazine, this guide has been brought up to date with ten additional articles from the original edition plus a new section on genres.

A new writer's companion in short sharp and succinct bites. Written in easily digestible chapters, this guide shows the path into today's new publishing environment and draws on the author's ten years' experience of writing and publishing.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9791097310264
Publisher: Pulcheria Press
Publication date: 04/09/2020
Pages: 134
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.29(d)

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

PART 1 WRITING YOUR BOOK

The bones of your book

Are you a pantser or a plotter?

Doing your research

Watching and noting

New Year, new conflict

A sense of time and place

Full of character

Style and tone

NaNoWriMo

You’ve written your novel. What next?

Preparing your manuscript for publication

“Oh, it’s wonderful, darling!”

Editing – do I really need it?

Paid editing – do I really need it?

The next book

PART II GENRES

Crime, mystery and thrillers

Romantic stuff

Speculative fiction

Memoir

Historical fiction

‘Women’s fiction’

PART III YOU, THE WRITER

Why do you write?

Something stopping you writing that book?

You don’t want to be alone!

Reading whilst writing

Your writing space

In the writer’s head

PART IV PUBLISHING YOUR BOOK

The traditional publishing route

Self-publishing the DIY way

Self-publishing with expert help

PART V SELLING YOUR BOOK

Pricing your book

Selling your book – the paper version

Selling your book – the ebook version

How to launch your book

How to sell more books – write more books!

Further Reading

Some useful web and blogsites

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