When an author decides to write fiction one the primary methods of storytelling is through a first person perspective. For many writers this is the most comfortable manner of storytelling. In a first person narrative the reader is allowed to relate to the story one dimensionally. The sto ...

I can't tell you how often people come up to me and say, "Tell me how to write a book about my life." You've got your life story to tell, and you can make it a best seller. I get goose bumps every time I hear that someone is going to write their life story or biography. Your own persona ...

Many forms of poetry have very strict structures. Some types of fiction do as well--writers of romance novels go outside their publisher's "guidelines" at their peril. Non-fiction also has a number of formats. Most news releases, for example, are written in "AP style." This is not all th ...

For marketers, publishing your own electronic newsletter can be challenging. Between project deadlines and other things, you've already got a lot on your plate. Then you also have a newsletter to get out every week, month, or quarter. Then it happens . . . You've run completely out of id ...

There are two specific, yet lofty goals writers strive for every time they commit words to paper. That goal is to write in such a way as to draw their readers into the written word. If this goal is in fictional writing the author wants the reader to become so absorbed in the story that t ...

Let's face it, there are more articles available today than there are people to read them. From traditional media, to newsletters, e-zines and websites, everyone has become an expert on something and the information clog shows no signs of receding. With all this information out there, ho ...

Is punctuation becoming less important Certainly there is less of it in modern writing. But less important Emphatically NO! Just look at three examples to see how punctuation marks can add style and power to your writing. BULLETS Bulleted lists are extremely effective in capturing the i ...

Top literary agents get about 400-1000 unsolicited queries every month from hopeful book authors. Publishing houses sometimes juggle 5000. Most of my private clients and participants in my seminar, How To Get A Six-Figure Book Advance, ask me how is an author supposed to get an agents at ...

Mildred Keith is about a sixteen year old girl who experiences many changes in her life. In the spring of the 1830's, the Keith family, who are currently at the time, residing in Lansdale, Ohio, is a happy family. But when lawyer Stuart Keith decides to move to unsettled Indiana, where t ...

Some time ago, I was hired by a woman with a harrowing family story to tell. She desperately wanted to share her tale, believing that it would expose truths and help other people, but she recognized that her writing was not at a professional book authors level. So I agreed to ghostwrite ...

In poetic literature you will often find a poem that seems to be inviting the reader to participate in an adventure or a love story. The use of you is evident in the poetry, but in most cases the reader understands that the poem is written to a third party and the author is simply allowi ...

Those who venture into fiction writing often fall prey to certain avoidable, yet highly normal faux pau's with their first book. Many of these novels are grand experiments. Often chapters unfold without advance direction or character notebook, sometimes there is a multitude of point of v ...

A paradigm has been described as A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them. Each writer comes at their work with a certain paradigm at work. Each writer will write with a set of assumptions about the ...

When it comes to success as an entrepreneur, and especially if you're an information marketer of some type, few things can give you as big of a bang for your buck as learning how to write a book and become a best-selling author. Here's a story that illustrates what I mean... About 2 year ...

[Henry David] Thoreau is a keen and delicate observer of nature - a genuine observer - which, I suspect, is almost as rare a character as even an original poet; and Nature, in return for his love, seems to adopt him as her especial child, and shows him secrets which few others are allowe ...

"Susan only submitted her manuscript to three literary agencies." "Susan submitted her manuscript to only three literary agencies." Ever hear of a misplaced modifier Dont worry, Ill get into those in another article. Today Im going to briefly explain one example, a pet peeve of mine and ...

"The wearily handsome, nervous, stubble-chinned man slowly and carefully got out of bed when he heard the soft, mysterious sound of footsteps in his apartment." OR "The ex-con bolted up, rubbed his eyes and then the stubble on his chin, and crept out of bed. Those footsteps didnt belong ...

As a writer, your dream on making it big in the entertainment industry is selling a script and making a movie out of it. Movies are one of the best forms of entertainment in the world. Since the invention and advancement in movie technology, people were always fascinated on how a movie w ...

Finding inspiration when you are writing is often a haphazard affair. When you are physically ready to write, nothing comes. When you are pumping gas, an epiphany! Writing on the Hoof It happens to me all the time. I work all day writing a wide variety of pieces for the various sites I o ...

Writing is incredibly enjoyable, but also perplexing. Inevitably, you get the best ideas or breakthroughs when you are nowhere near your computer or pad and paper. Writing and Focus If you are a writer, you will inevitably run into that moment when you cant find the thread of your story ...