Writing Skills category: 1537 books

Novelists throughout history struggled to find their titles. They, like us, began with a “working title,” often considering several possibilities before landing on one that fits. Titles do matter. When you arrive at the right one, everything falls into place. Titles represent what is important...

What's it like to live life as a professional fiction writer?  This series of original, uncut blog posts is an intimate glimpse into the day-to-day life of a professional fiction writer. And a great deal more.  I've included daily, monthly and annual word counts, both fiction and nonfiction....

"Noah Lukeman, one of the top literary agents in New York, gave writers a great gift."--James Frey (regarding The Plot Thickens)"This will certainly help writers of any kind defeat rejection and possibly score."--Writers.com (regarding The First Five Pages)Many books have been...

Everyone has a story to tell, but very few ofus know where to start. It’s confusing whenthe book shelves are full of tomes thatpromise to give you a golden formula on howto write a great story, but those promises arequickly broken...So what do you do? Fwah Storm is the award winning imagineer...

The sequel to Mixon's popular The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner's Manual, her new book, The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner's Manual, explores in detail the complex crafts of character development and plot structure, explaining and illuminating exactly how the greats have done...

This book aims to provide inspiration to encourage people to write more book reviews. It is written for authors, though any reader can benefit.

What does it take to write 100 books? What about 500? Or 1,000? That may sound like an impossibly high number, but it isn’t. Some of the world’s most successful authors wrote hundreds of books over the course of highly lucrative careers. Isaac Asimov wrote more than 300 books. Enid Blyton wrote...

A lively and comprehensive guide on the importance of structuring your plot with in-depth looks at different techniques and lots of practical advice, including at least one writing exercise in each chapter on topics such as building tension, staging drama, identifying and rectifying structural issues...

It is possible to finish your thesis in 6 months, even if you don’t know what to write or haven’t finished your research. In this short ebook, Scott Rank distills the principles that helped him go from crippling writer’s block to writing 500-1000 words a day.In this book you will learn...

When it is written well, dialect informs and enhances the reader’s sense of place and character. It should never be used for only one reason, for example, to identify a character’s race or region. Rather, it should be used when necessary to identify the character’s level of intelligence, level...

They've told you that writing fast is impossible. They were wrong. You too can create stories at the speed of the great pulp writers. Not only that, but your craft will actually get better the faster you go. It just takes time and practice. Come learn the things I discovered as I went...

Book 7 of the 2YN series moves from the art of writing to the crafting of edits. This book takes on some of the major problems, including when the book is too short. There is no need to worry about editing. This is as much a part of writing as the first draft, and can be just as much fun!

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Writing an e-book can be life changing. It can generate a continuous stream of income for you. Taking the first step can be scary, but it doesn’t have to be. Whether your goal is to create a career writing e-books or create a secondary income stream, it’s not as difficult as you might think. Many...