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• Most popular point of view types in stories
• Select your viewpoint character with care
• Streamline writing by cutting perception fallacy
• Avoid shifting point of view in your story
• Create intimacy with narrator via first-person
• When to use first-person minor in stories
• Types of third-person point of views
• Use third–person limited for greater clarity
• Rotate third-person limited to avoid issues
• BONUS: "Writing stories is like making love." - June Gillam
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• Follow a "process" when writing your story
• The "thinking step" when writing your book
• Drafting: Write on paper or type on computer?
• Draft rarely perfect after first go-round
• A finished draft beats a perfect draft
• BONUS: "Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out." - Robin Wells
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“There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell what mutton tastes like.” - Somerset Maugham
“My writing is full of lives I might have led. A writer imagines what could have happened, not what really happened.” - Joyce Carol Oates
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” - Henry David Thoreau
“A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.” - W. Somerset Maugham
“I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.” - John Ashbery
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Every success story begins with a dream. If you dream of being a professional, published author, that success story requires believing in yourself and in knowing that your efforts will lead to triumph. Read the motivational blog entry this quotation came from by clicking on the quote card.
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
• Why you need to market your book
• Article directories
• Ask people about themselves
• Author's platform
• Backlinks to your website
• Back of room sales
• Blog conversations
• Blog tour
• Book club guide
• Bookmarks
• Business cards
• Carry your books around
• Discuss your book's topic online
• Distribution channels
• Donate copies of your book
• Email marketing campaign
• Email signature
• Excerpt from next book
• Exploit Your "Local" Status
• First book in series permanently free
• Free unpublished story
• Give away first in series
• Give away valuable content
• Help A Reporter Out
• Little Free Library
• Library
• Mainstream media
• Media kit
• Offer valuable content
• Online book tour
• Online storefronts
• Place free books around town
• Posting at high-traffic blogs
• Post PowerPoint presentations
• Presentations to pitch book
• Promo codes/coupons
• Pulse-pricing
• Radio interviews
• Reader's guide
• Television interview
• Spin it for a holiday
• Swap sample chapter with another author
• Wear your book title
• Website book promotions
• Web widgets
• Write then publish your next book
• Don't get hung up on watching book sales stats
• BONUS: Ways to advertise your book (mostly for free!)
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.
• Vividness
• Diction
• Narrative drive
• Fragments for rhetorical effect
• Word choice
• Eyeball kick
• Freeze-frame
• Mimic sounds
• Physical gestures to show not tell
• BONUS: “The adjective is the enemy of the noun.” – Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Professional Book Editor: Having your novel, short story or nonfiction manuscript proofread or edited before submitting it can prove invaluable. In an economic climate where you face heavy competition, your writing needs a second eye to give you the edge. I can provide that second eye.