Are You Called to Be a Writer?
Is our writing just a fun pastime – or is it a calling?
Helping Writers Become Authors provides writers help in summoning inspiration, crafting solid characters, outlining and structuring novels, and polishing prose. Learn how to write a book and edit it into a story agents will buy and readers will love. (Music intro by Kevin MacLeod.)
Is our writing just a fun pastime – or is it a calling?
For some writers, word counts can prove more problematic than they’re worth.
If, by the end of the year, you can cross the following habits of successful authors off your checklist, you’ll be a force to reckon with in the literary world!
Chapter breaks are do-or-die territory for novelists.
When planning your scenes, even scenes where what’s said is what’s important, give your characters something to do.
Why not tap into the power of music when you need the inspiration most: while you’re writing.
The better the artist, the more varied his work.
I argue that keeping a writing-exercise journal is an ineffective, inefficient, and occasionally even detrimental habit.
When your story demands you kill a prominent character, how do you tap into the power and pathos without infuriating your readers?