Our writers’ group has four longterm members; others come and go. A few weeks ago, a member left. He’d given up on his novel. He’d lost confidence. That happens often. Novelists give up. So in the following meeting, we talked about what makes a confident novelist, because confidence is vital for ...
Writing Tools & Techniques
Writing Fiction: Get Confident About Your Writer’s Voice
If you’re writing fiction, at some stage you’re bound to have heard the advice that you need to find your “voice.” We discussed voice at our last writer’s group meeting, and decided that it’s the most useless piece of advice ever. Here’s why. There’s no one single voice which you as a writer need ...
How To Write A Nonfiction Ebook: 5 Tips
Want to write a nonfiction ebook? I was complaining about the three ebooks I needed to write this month to a writer friend — I write nonfiction ebooks in my marketing day job. Clients use them in many different ways: they print them, they offer them as PDFs from their websites, and they sell them ...
Writing Fiction: 5 Ways To Add Drama (And Please Readers)
You’re writing fiction. You’re an entertainer, so your primary task when you write is to be entertaining. It’s a constant challenge. I’ve got a yellow sticky pasted to my screen which says: DRAMA. It’s easy to forget to create drama and make your fiction entertaining because there are so many ...
Write A Novel In 2018: Start Today With 4 Easy Questions
It’s been your dream to write a novel for many years. Perhaps you’ve started to write, and got stuck. Or maybe you’re waiting for the happy day when you get the perfect idea for a novel which will be an instant bestseller. Here’s a secret: every published novelist knows that there’s only one ...
Write A Novel FAST: Edit While You’re Writing
How do you write a novel? Short answer: your way. There are as many ways to write novels as there are writers. Moreover, each novel you write is a fresh challenge. Let’s look at a FAST way to write a novel. This is far from the only way, of course. :-) Tip: if you’re a pantser, and have no ...
