Writing Skills category: 1537 books

They’ve been called the hardest scenes to write in the Romance genre and are often what many authors get wrong. Horribly, cringingly wrong!But scenes of physical affection between your two main characters don’t have to be uncomfortable to write, find you running the other direction or even deleting...

From the author of Beyond Style: Mastering the Finer Points of Writing, Gary Provost's Make Every Word Count is a guide to assist writers of both fiction and nonfiction. Topics include: style, use of jargon, avoiding cliches, tone, intention, characterization, credibility, description, dialogue, viewpoints, and many more.

It all starts with a newspaper article depiciting an unthinkable crime in a local community. From these headlines, a skilled writer can weave a full-length book - developing the characters, determining the motives, reporting on the judgment. That writer could be you. If you're fascinated by unusual crime...

Fiction - The Art and the Craft is a highly practical exposition of all the major elements of fiction - such as plot, conflict, suspense, the hook, inference, character and dialogue - and how these elements are combined to make a compelling story. Using examples from well-known works of literature and...

Interesting, engaging characters are the backbone of a story. This book covers the elements needed to portray well-rounded, dynamic characters who are ripe to change and grow during the course of your story. Topics covered include points of view, main characters, secondary characters, protagonists,...

USA Best Book Award Winner in Business: Writing/Publishing, With March 2016 Updates! Relatable and hilarious, you will wear the pages of this book out. Who knew indie publishing could be this much fun? Whether you have published before or are contemplating your first book, Pamela Fagan...

The legal profession says, "Wherever there is confusion, money can be made." There is plenty of confusion in the publishing world too. Many authors become victims of it, and squander time and money, because they don't understand their options. This book clears the confusion. It...

A step-by-step strategy to create the elements of a stand-out synopsis. With special focus on romance, learn how to simply and succinctly construct an engaging and fresh synopsis that contains all vital information while hooking the reader, and maintaining tension and emotion. 

Being a writer is serious business. You're selling more than a book. You're selling yourself as a writer. Learn strategies for creating your unique brand, and an experimental mindset that will keep you on track through the roller coaster ride of the industry. Learn how to define success and what to...

The whole world is caught up in a social media frenzy! Do you find yourself hooked to your phone and looking at your feed multiple times a day?  You are not the only one hooked.  Billions of people are doing it daily.  Do you wish there was some way you could capitalise on this? Understanding...

Imagine sitting down with a few best-selling authors and learning their most innovative and effective strategies and techniques for marketing books. Sounds good, doesn’t it? The One Minute Book Marketer presents cutting-edge ideas from authors with a proven track record and numerous published...

The Complete Article Writer shows you how to get from a potential article idea to a finished, publishable article, written for a specific readership. The Complete Article Writer began life as a series of eight step-by-step workshops that took delegates through the process of creating a publishable...

Self-Publish Your Book Without Breaking the LawAs an author, it’s easy to get so caught up in writing your book that you forget the many legal issues that come with publishing. All of these legal nuances were taken care of behind the scenes when traditional publishing was the only path to...

Written by a professional editor with 20 years experience, this guide to self-editing offers writers of memoir multiple ways to improve their writing and produce cleaner manuscripts to pitch to agents and editors or to self-publish. Includes 10 rules for avoiding errors in punctuation and syntax and...