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1.	Bookmarks: 0	Apple bargain the novel iPad at 315 pounds After the launch of ipad mini adaptation it is badly affect ted the sales of the novel full sized iPad so now the company is stating the spec of ipad for promoting its sales.
2.	Bookmarks: 0	Writers Gain Valuable Insights from Diana Botsford at TimeGate Con 2011 Author-screenwriter, Diana Botsford led an exceptional Creative Writing Workshop at TimegateCon.org in Atlanta Georgia May 28, 2011. As the head of the Screenwriting Program at Missouri State University, her recently completed written work includes the SF novel, Critical Past, and the comic book series, The Fracture. The workshop helps writers learn more about the writing process. Each year Diana provides helpful critique to those who submit a one page proposal for a TV series, a film, novel,
3.	Bookmarks: 2	Effective Study Habits Effective study habits are essential for achieving and maintaining a high GPA. More importantly, effective study habits help you to store information in long-term memory, allowing you to use the learned information in a novel setting. Applying the following rules for studying will aid you in earning excellent marks in school.Do: 1. Keep the area around your desk neat and tidy. If possible, the area should also be quiet. If you are having trouble finding a quiet place to s...
4.	Bookmarks: 0	Better Speed Reading Speed Reading: The Course of Speed Scientific ReadingIf you have the extreme passion for reading but you experience difficulty in absorbing large quantities of information from the material you read, then you’ve got to engage in some speed reading practices. Speed reading will also encourage you more to appreciate your studies, enjoy reading bulky novels, books, and other write-ups. Speed reading has a designated purpose. There is literally no one in this world who ca...
5.	Bookmarks: 2	Animation And Game Design Going To The Movies Animation and game design have, for the most part, fallen into two categories in the past. You either worked on animation for children’s movies or you focused on animation for video games. Today, however, many young animators are realizing that their opportunities are becoming much more diverse as the movie graphic novel and video gaming industries have begun to overlap.Merging of MediaToday more and more video games are becoming movies. Successes in the last decade ...
6.	Bookmarks: 2	Learning New Things To Improve Memory Keeping our brains active can help improve memory performance. While the old tried and tested method of repetition is still an important part of memory techniques, we also need a bit of novelty to keep our minds awake and to stimulate our brains.We all have times when we’d love to be able to improve memory – for school tests, college exams, business presentations or even just in our day to day lives. Pregnant women are particularly prone to memory loss, and often seek way...
7.	Bookmarks: 0	New Zealand: Unique Nature Thrills Some of the most novel vacation experiences in the world may be found in New Zealand. All things are possible in this country so well-endowed by Nature. The only limitation may be your time. New Zealand can easily fill up vacations that last for several months and you will not even find yourself doing the same thing twice during that period. But for those on limited time, you will have to give serious thought in planning your holiday to get the most out of your trip.A vac...
8.	Bookmarks: 0	The Power Of Our Subconscious Mind Have you ever fully appreciated that marvelous tool for success that each and every one of us has at our command? It is our mind.Theodore Roosevelt“All the resources we need are in the mind.”In the novel “Terminal Man” by Michael Crichton, it mentions that at that time (1972) the largest and most expensive computer had the same number of circuits as the brain of an ant. To make a computer with the capacity of the human brain would require the size of a huge skyscr...
9.	Bookmarks: 12	Hydroponics - A Novel Blessing of Science The term hydroponics stands for the technique of cultivating plants in a nutrient solution rather than in soil. It’s a novel technique of growing plants in water which contains dissolved nutrients. This technique is also known as indoor gardening, aquiculture and tank farming.
10.	Bookmarks: 1	Audio Books Online - History Repeats Itself I have tried to convince many friends to listen to audio books online. This really is not any different to reading a regular book, except that someone else's voice does the reading for you. Apparently the move from the 'traditional book' to a compact disc or mp3 has resulted in a large group of skeptical people who doubt that it is possible to truly appreciate a novel by listening, rather than physically reading. Funnily, it is actually the younger people that are harder to c...
11.	Bookmarks: 0	Get Published: New Guide Gives Advice From the Pros Have you ever wanted to write a book? Whether you have a great idea for a cookbook, a science-fiction novel or children's story, transforming it into reality requires a lot of discipline and some good insider advice.
12.	Bookmarks: 2	Novelty Chairs- Adding Comfort to Your Home Furniture defines what comfort is for you. Without them, life would be just name of pains and we would really look prehistoric just like centuries ago we are. Man’s always try to find out something that could give him means of resting after getting tired or just finding time to relax. Chairs are the answer. The long and hectic schedules of today’s people have lead to the great popularity in chairs. With the long functioning hours, long commute times and great stress, the best mean...
13.	Bookmarks: 0	Tuning Out The Radio Voice It would be impossible to list all of the things people have considered crucial to success in life. Honesty, energy, bonding, modeling, control of fear…all are important. For my whole life, I’ve searched for the answers in this arena, and treasured the gems that have been revealed.In July of 2005, I went back to Longview, Washington, where I’d lived for nine years, raising my daughter. When we left, we packed much of our house into two storage units, planning to return on...
14.	Bookmarks: 4	Becoming A Student Of Life One of the habits that has served me well throughout my life is keeping the mind-set of a student. I've always had an insatiable curiosity about a wide variety of topics, and I'm usually reading several books during the same time period. I've read about some really fascinating things, like quantum physics, and some really cheesy things, like romance novels. Truth be told, I've enjoyed them all!It occurred to me the other day that it doesn't matter what I'm learning about,...
15.	Bookmarks: 0	Paying For Items With Ebay Coupons There’s a novel idea afoot nowadays: Using electronic discount coupons to pay for items people are interested in purchasing. This only goes to show that most good marketing ideas can be adopted for the internet. Instead of cutting coupons out from newspapers or carton boxes, eBay gives out electronic copies of coupons to purchase merchandise. The coupons are fast and easy to use. Coupons are routinely sent by eBay to members who then use them to pay for items through ...
16.	Bookmarks: 0	Magazine Subscriptions: Cheap Good Reads People are busy these days. While we may still have time to read a good novel on our summer vacation, a lot of us are limited to the two or three minutes we can get in before we fall asleep at night or maybe that quiet time in the bathroom. Magazines are great for people on the go. You can get valuable information in small pieces, they’re light and portable, and these days there is a magazine (and sometimes many) for everyone from equestrians to quilters. The problem is that ...
17.	Bookmarks: 0	Google: Friend or Foe? Don’t get me wrong, almost all of us love Google to death. It has single-handedly changed the direction of this entire industry to something that is accessible for everyone. However, while Google is the darling poster child of Wall Street and the general public, there lurks a danger of abuse. We will cover this in a bit, but first let’s look at a few years ago when the World Wide Web was still a novel concept.
18.	Bookmarks: 4	Writing A Novel On Your Lunch Hour Okay, so I didn’t really write a whole novel on my lunch hour. But I did develop a lot of the characters, locations and plot by taking a half-hour out of each workday to sketch some ideas. You’d be surprised with what you can get done in just thirty minutes a day.First, a little background. I had a job that was driving me crazy. Corporate priorities at the company I worked for changed on a weekly basis. Projects I managed got cancelled halfway through development, blew up...
19.	Bookmarks: 1	Write About Something That Will Change Your Life! It's been said that you should "write about what you know". It's also been said that doing that condemns you to a life of boredom as you'll never grow beyond your current limitations.Not very helpful, is it?It's also been said that you should write about what you're passionate about, interested in or otherwise taken by, as you'll spend so much time researching it, writing it and rewriting it, that it had better light your fire, or it will drive you insane. And then ag...
20.	Bookmarks: 1	The Truth About The Writing Life When you are a writer, you cannot separate your writing from your life. Writers cannot not write, so writing for you is like breathing. It is so natural you don't even think about it. I think it's a shame that so many writers treat their writing as anything from "special time" to the last thing on their to-do list. Writing is life. And so the principles of life, or the truth about life, are also the principles of, or the truth about, the writing life.I recently re-read a ...
21.	Bookmarks: 4	The Simple 5 Step Secret To Great Fiction Stephen King says he starts his novels with a "What if?" question. What if a woman and child are trapped in a car by a rabid dog? What if a family pet buried in a Pet Semetary came back to life? What if a young girl could start fires with her mind?I have also heard many other bestselling novelist such as Jodi Picoult, Janet Evanovich and Nicolas Evans lay claim to the same thing.And I have heard others say they just saw an image in their mind, or had a persistent sent...
22.	Bookmarks: 10	Pop Culture, Slang, And Day-Old Sushi: Things That Can Quickly Go Bad (And How To Keep Them From Fouling Up Your YA Fiction)In 10 years, will anybody understand you if you say "fo shizzle?" Will they stare blankly if you mention Britney Spears' buzz cut or Paris Hilton's jail time? They might, they might not, but the point is this: If you're a writer of young adult fiction, you can't afford to pepper your prose with slang and cultural references that reek like week-old sushi.More than in any other genre of writing, writers of young adul...
23.	Bookmarks: 0	Young Writers If you are between the ages of 8 to 18 and love to write, be it short stories, plays or poems, then you are a young writer. For the writer nothing is more satisfying than finishing a story, play, poem etc. In fact some young writers decide to make it their career of choice. This is not always an easy path but if you have a passion for it you will ride out the difficult times. Here are some tips to help you.1. Read widely,a good writer is one that reads constantly and wide...
24.	Bookmarks: 0	Writing Twenty Novels (In Ten Easy Steps!) During a recent telephone conversation, I mentioned having sent off the last revisions for my twentieth novel, “Great Sky Woman.” There was a silence on the other side of the phone, followed by the question “How in the world do you do that? Twenty novels!”The truth is that I know many writers who have written far more than twenty novels. It is not that unusual. In fact, if you are a working writer, the “perfect” output is very close to a book a year. Less often...
25.	Bookmarks: 2	Writing To Weave The Spell As you may know, I’m a great fan of the works of the Canadian author, Robertson Davies. So, when I’m looking for inspiration and ideas, I turn to his articles on writing. I came across a speech he gave in 1990 for the Tanner Lectures in New Haven, Connecticut. One is entitled simply Writing, the other Reading.What makes a novel good or even really great, so that it will be read one hundred years from now [or more]? What takes a novel out of its own time, so to speak, and ...
26.	Bookmarks: 0	Writing Style: Are You A Real Writer? I hear it all the time from my students and at the seminars and workshops I lead. The writers that I work with are excited to work with a "real" writer. Most people define a "real" writer as one who is published. Therefore I, with three published novels and innumerable newspaper and magazine articles under my belt, certainly qualify.However, the longer I am involved in the business of professional writing and the teaching of writing the more I question that definition. Fo...
27.	Bookmarks: 0	Writing Stories There's nothing like writing a story. It is a truly satisfying creative process. In order to write a story that people will enjoy. You need to understand the key elements that all good writers use in stories. In this article we will explore these elements.1. BrainstormingAsk yourself these questions:What are you are going to write about? Who will be your audience? How much do you know about what you want to write about? What do I need to find out?2. Write from...
28.	Bookmarks: 0	Writing and Walking – Beating Writer’s Block Writing and walking are a seemingly odd mix of topics for an article, but they go well together. Particularly if you write during breaks in your walk.
29.	Bookmarks: 0	Write The Bestseller-kind-of-novel “TAKE THE MYTH OUT OF BESTSELLER, AND WRITE YOU ONE!”When we see the word "Bestseller," it usually means selling a great number of books, starting around 30-50 thousand copies. Certain bookstores report the sales to certain lists and the book is listed as a bestseller. Well, many, many bookstores that sell lots of an author’s books do not report to those lists. Then there are ordinary writers like you and me who sell thousands of books on their own and they don’t report t...
30.	Bookmarks: 2	Write Novel's First Line To Guarantee Sales Start your writing with conflict if you want to guarantee sales, grab an agent or publisher, get paid a big advance. Your protagonist wants something and your antagonist wants to block it. If you want to be the publisher’s star-of-the-month, just hand out a strong dose of conflict right up front. Bold like. Then, they’re wrapped up in your story and it’s too late for them to escape. Trust me, readers, agents and publishers are going to consider writing with a strong dose of c...
31.	Bookmarks: 11	Write A Novel Out Of Your Dream Everyone might have a dream, but what would you do when you get up in the morning? I'm sure almost everyone forgot about as soon as they washed their face in a bathroom. What's so important about your dream? The answer is easily made, because I'm sure that you sure had an great experience in your dream something like adventured in the deep jungle, chased by terrific monsters and anything else. And I know that not all of you could remembered all of your dreams. Yes, me too, bu...
32.	Bookmarks: 3	Writers Make Money Online When you think of making money writing, you often think of freelance writing, ghost writing, and writing novels... all of which you can do on the internet. However, I'm wanting to talk about the hidden opportunities for good writers in internet marketing (no, forget blogging).Information is the key to the internet, whether selling tangible or digital goods. To answer your question, yes, people buy ebooks all the time. They don't even mind paying for those physical books b...
33.	Bookmarks: 11	Woo-Woo Writing – Exploring The Paranormal In Erotic Romance My next book, Take Me There is an erotic ghost story. It is scheduled for release in November 2007. This is the description from the back cover:Imagine the man of your dreams reaching out to you in the night…from across centuries. And he isn’t the only one. In this daring choose-your-own-adventure novel from the author of Sins and Secrets, hungry lovers separated by time and space come together to find physical passion in unearthly ways…Can one woman love two men? Jou...
34.	Bookmarks: 8	Why Do So Many Lawyers Write Novels? Ever wonder why so many lawyers write novels? And very successful ones at that? Just think of John Grisham and Scott Turow, both of whom have written exciting, entertaining stories that grab hold of us until the very last page. Both men have had active legal careers in the criminal courts. Every day, they have dealt [literally] with life and death issues. Every day, they have witnessed the brutal effects of crime upon victims, families and upon the lives of the perpetrato...
35.	Bookmarks: 0	Who's Speaking: Choosing A Narrator's Voice Have you given much thought to the voice of your narrator? Perhaps you assumed the narrator in your novel should remain neutral. Many writers believe that the narrator should have little in the way of identity and the use of a narrator is essentially a necessary means of moving the story from one scene to the next.It may come as a surprise to learn that your narrator can, and SHOULD, have a distinctive voice. The narrator should be used to do more than simply take the rea...
36.	Bookmarks: 3	Where Are A Novelist's Characters Born? Have you ever been haunted by a character, one who inhabits your imagination for days, months or years? Acquiring a life of his own, he leaps from the page and burrows inside us.Think of Dickens’ Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge or Shakespeare’s King Lear or Macbeth? And then, of course, more recently, Hannibal Lector bursts from the mind of the novelist Thomas Harris and frightens us from the screen in the movie The Silence of the LambsWhere did these characters come from? And w...
37.	Bookmarks: 0	What Grabs Your Reader? It is the dramatic question that grabs your reader and holds him or her. It creates a narrow path that forces the reader into suspense that won’t let go. It moves the story forward. All bestseller-kind-of novels have it.Have you noticed that untrained eyes want you to explain everything in that first line, first paragraph. But it is the “Dramatic Question” that creates the hook.In my novel, the Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires, a mystery/thriller sprinkled with social comm...
38.	Bookmarks: 5	What Do Bestselling Authors Have In Common? Nine Characteristics That May Surprise You.In writing "The Making of a Bestseller: Success Stories From Authors and the Editors, Agents and Behind Them," (Dearborn Trade, 2005), we wanted to find out what separates the publishing industry elite, the bestselling authors, from all the thousands and thousands of writers who aspire to someday make the bestseller lists. We interviewed 24 of today's most popular authors, some of whom have endured on the bestseller lists for dec...
39.	Bookmarks: 0	What A New Writer Has To Know About Creating A Character What is the soul of a story? Some people say the plot, some others say the characters. I say, it’s both.But now, I’d like to talk about characters.How do you create a character?Here are some ways used by writers out there in creating the characters in their story:• Go with the flowSome writers begin with the first few lines. As long as they can get something interesting for the first line, the rest will follow. The character’s personality grows at the same...
40.	Bookmarks: 1	Too Much Sitting Can Cause Disaster Most writers have dangerous issues they pay little or no attention to until it’s too late—their health! And yet, health can be more of a problem than Writer’s Block, complications of concentration, writing anxiety, daily output frustration and editor angst. What I’m talking about is sitting related diseases.It took me five years to write my novel, The Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires, and all during that time, I had to work at keeping healthy. First of all, I was gaining...
41.	Bookmarks: 4	Time Management For Writers Most established writers have deadlines to follow. They are either pressed to complete an article by a certain time or they have a novel or non-fiction book that must be handed in by a deadline. In each case they have either a mandatory of self-imposed daily word count they need to complete in order to finish on time.The primary components to time management for writers should encompass several things.1. Writing - By actually identifying what your purpose is you take ...
42.	Bookmarks: 0	What Does Stories Like Conduct In Question Have To Do With Joseph Campbell And The Hero With A Thousand Faces? WHY WE LOVE STORIESTell me a story! Just one more story!Okay, here’s one for you about a forty-six year old lawyer.Harry’s stuck in the backroom of a creaky, old law firm and under his senior partner’s thumb. Life is going nowhere and his chances of making real money are fading fast. His wife plans to leave him because, she claims, they are ‘in different worlds.’ Wishing his life were different, he has no idea how to change it.Next day his senior partner comes...
43.	Bookmarks: 0	The Harlequin Romance Legacy When people think romance novel, the first thought that pops up may be 'Harlequin Romance'. And why not? Harlequin romance novels have been around for decades and continue to be the leader in series romance in the world. Harlequin romance novels have definitely withstood the test of time, and are still going as strong today as they were in the 1960's.Based in Toronto, Canada, Harlequin romance continues to publish over one hundred titles of serial romance every month. Thi...
44.	Bookmarks: 0	The Gift Of Writer's Block Anyone who writes knows this scenario at one time or another: You have something to say, great ideas to express. So, you go to the page only to find your mind has gone as blank as the sheet or screen before you. Paralyzed, you write not a word. Somewhere in the synapses of your imagination, you know there lives a fully formed novel, or story, or play, or even one single poem, but you cannot magnify it enough to see the individual words. So you leave it for another day…until...
45.	Bookmarks: 6	How Much Money Is Enough: Thoughts From Conduct In Question, The First In The Osgoode Trilogy Ever had your moral convictions put to the test? Most of us think we know what we’d do in any given situation. But do we really? Maybe another unknown part of us surfaces and takes over—leaving us in a confusion of questions. But the deed is done and we cannot take it back.This is the predicament, Harry Jenkins, protagonist/lawyer of The Osgoode Trilogy finds himself in, at the beginning of the first novel, Conduct in Question. Harry longs for freedom and love, but has be...
46.	Bookmarks: 0	The Details Are In The Calendar Like many authors, writing a novel was always an aspiration. When I finally started the process, in Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace I had a great story that had evolved from real-life events. Still, the majority of my experience was writing nonfiction, a style that generally called for straight facts with less emphasis on descriptive elements. Exceptional fiction requires authentic details that pull the reader into the world in which the story takes place. I discovered th...
47.	Bookmarks: 6	The Banned Narrator-Are You An Epistolary Novelist? Do you like to write letters to those who have meant something to you? Do people like receiving your letters? Have others said they always look forward to your letters?If you answered yes to any of the above questions you could be an Epistolary Novelist.This novel approach to fiction writing is unique in that the entire novel is composed with letters written between main characters or a solitary writer.One of the classic Epistolary Novels in Christian fiction is t...
48.	Bookmarks: 0	Stepping Stones, Ladders And Bridges. Start small work your way up. Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves. Climb the ladder one rung at a time. Get your foot in the door and the rest will follow. Well worn platitudes all. But what does it have to do with writing?Many writers think that the secret to getting published by a major house is working their way up. Write a book, get it published by a vanity/utility publisher and that’s the first rung on the ladder to success....
49.	Bookmarks: 3	Start Writing A Novel Today! What's Stopping You? When you start writing a novel you may find doing so somewhat more difficult than you expected. You are not alone when you make this discovery, as many novice writers and even published authors find themselves in the very same predicament. Perhaps one of the most difficult things may be trying to discover who, what, where, when, why and how you are going to develop the next "Pulitzer Prize Winning" fiction book. This article will provide you with a number of thoughts and idea...
50.	Bookmarks: 0	Seven Secrets Of Highly Creative Writers The Lifewriting™ approach to your writing career demands a relatively high creative output. It isn’t designed to coddle people who nurse a single story for years before sending it out. But students often protest that they simply don’t come up with many good ideas, and that the ideas they do generate are appropriate for novels. In my opinion, basic ideas have no intrinsic length. The TREATMENT of an idea has an intrinsic length. The Civil War can be treated in a one-pa...
51.	Bookmarks: 15	Scams, Schemes, And Shams: Who Can An Author Trust? Authors in their quest to get published can fall victim to scams. Here's a few tips to help you avoid the traps. Online Matching Services and Email Blast ProgramsThese services, for a fee, put your query letter, synopsis and first chapter online. Acquisition editors and literary agents then have the opportunity to peruse the offerings. You have to ask yourself if you truly believe that the average literary agent, who receives 1100 unsolicited queries a year, has th...
52.	Bookmarks: 1	Rocking The Vote In 2008 The story arc of Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace covers five years and three elections. Set in Minnesota, home to the nation's highest voter turn-out, the Pierson family understands that voting is not a right but a privilege, and one they exercise regularly. With 2008 a presidential election year, readers of the novel might view Minnesota as an example for the rest of the country to follow.Nationally between 1960 and 2004, voter participation in presidential election ...
53.	Bookmarks: 8	Querying: One Author’s Feedback On Tactical Issues When I was functioning as that lowest of all life forms, the unpublished author, I benefited from established novelists willing to share their experiences. This article is intended to give something back, especially since my experience had some unexpected turns.I quickly learned to prefer sending queries by snail mail. Yes, it is slower, expensive, and more work, but my perception is that paper queries are taken more seriously and less likely to be ignored. They are also...
54.	Bookmarks: 3	Putting Off Writing That Novel Until The Kids Are Grown? If you want to write a novel, but are putting it off until the kids are grown, I have two words for you: Don't wait. It's possible to raise a happy, healthy family and still follow your writing dream. And that's true whether you're single or married. Whether you're a stay-at-home mom or work outside the house.You may think I'm crazy - how can you find time to write when you're already so busy you barely have time to sleep?It can be done.J.K. Rowling quite famously...
55.	Bookmarks: 50	Pahl Overcomes Heartbreaking Winter To Capture Bronte Prize After a three-month span that included the sudden and early deaths of both the canine companion he called “daughter” and his beloved father, indie lit penmaster Nelson Pahl deserved a break.He finally got one—even if it pales in comparison to his heartbreaking winter.Pahl’s Bee Balms & Burgundy, published on independent imprint Café Reverie Press, won romantic fiction’s biggest award, the Bronte Prize. The accolade recognizes the best love story published in th...
56.	Bookmarks: 0	No Time: Your Best Fake Excuse To Avoid Writing After a full day of work, family and life, you fall into bed exhausted. Mentally ticking off your to-do list, you cycle through shopping lists, phone calls, appointments, feeling good about what you have gotten done, until you get to the thing you really want to do. You lay there, bathed in regret – why didn’t you get your writing done today? You vow to do it tomorrow. You will make time for your novel or that article you know would sell. You consider angles, write a few line...
57.	Bookmarks: 0	Learn How To Write A Screenplay That Actually Gets Made! Almost everyone thinks they know how to write a screenplay. We’ve all heard someone watching TV saying “I could write a better script than that”!The truth is that just about everyone does have a story worth telling. Unfortunately most do NOT know how to write a screenplay.Most professional artists are very particular about their tools. The screenplay writer is no different. The key to writing is being organized. Before even writing a single word, you must have an i...
58.	Bookmarks: 0	What Do Stephen King, Jeffrey Deaver, Jonathan Kellerman And Thomas Mann Have In Common? Frequently, I’m asked whether I know the whole story of a novel at the outset of writing it. The answer is a simple “no”.I might have an idea of where I want a story to go, but often I’m surprised by the direction it may take, seemingly all on its own. How on earth does that happen?First, let me say that I often make plot outlines and charts as I work, more to keep track of where I’ve been rather than where I’m going. It sounds a bit like “backing into ...
59.	Bookmarks: 0	Importance Of Self Promotion Promoting yourself is as important as writing your novel. It’s important to get your name out there, and allow people a sample of your work. People can’t buy what they don’t know about. Not only is promoting an important step of the publishing process, it’s a vital element to any writers career.In the age of the information superhighway known as the internet, there are many opportunities to promote your work. It’s important that you utilize a good mix of all of them...
60.	Bookmarks: 4	How To Write Your First Novel I began my writing career as a poet, and I’m still a poet. So my journey into fiction was never a planned career move. In fact, my first short story arrived as a complete shock. No kidding.Because I have written and published poetry in books and magazines for years, I’ve developed a writing schedule that provides time to write every day, always a half hour after breakfast each morning and again after dinner every evening. I also keep a notepad and pen next to the bed to c...
61.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Write Best Selling Graphic Novels Do you want to create a top notch graphic novel? Perhaps you have the talent but lack the necessary know-how?
62.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Write A Strong Start For Your Novel I revised my Civil War novel Hearts of Stone many times before selling it to Dutton Children’s Books. My editor only had one major suggestion: Consider a new beginning.If you’re revising a novel, considering the first scene should be one of your last steps. It’s hard to know how best to begin until you’re sure how the story ends. And although everyone needs to revise in a manner that works for them, writers who perfect every sentence along the way can fall in love wit...
63.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Write A Love Scene The most critical lesson in writing a love scene is that it is similar to making love in the real world: when done well, it is messy, chaotic and somewhat animalistic. The civilized approach does not work; it leads to the greatest drawback of all: predictability.Does this sound familiar? The leading man and woman dislike one another intensely; something happens and they see another side of the other; in spite of their best efforts to deny it, they find themselves attracte...
64.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Get Published: Eight Surefire Steps For Writing Success How to get published? That’s the big money question for writers. Writing is fulfilling in and of itself, but every writer ultimately wants to learn how to get published.A lot of writers think getting published is a matter of luck. Or it’s a matter of knowing the right person. Or it’s a matter of simply being born a brilliant writer.Although all of the above will help you get published, you don’t have to have any of these things. You can LEARN how to get published...
65.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Get People To Know That Your Book Is Out There Ok so you have been through the writing process, where you have wrote that perfect novel, and rewrote it again and again until it's perfect. Then you found either a Publisher or Agent to represent you. Your book has been through the editing stage, cover art finalized, and a Published Date assigned, now what? Is the job done? Have you did all you needed to do to make this book a success? Nope, you have only begun. Now you have to market that book, get it into book store...
66.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Find The Novel That Only You Can Write Most people think writing a novel is just writing. I have lost count of the number of people who say “I want to write a novel” and think that they will just sit down, put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, and the whole thing will just unfold before them. I’ve read a few novels, they think, why can’t I write one?If only it were that easy!The process of writing any story is exactly that, a process. And whether you are tackling a novel, a short story, an essay or a no...
67.	Bookmarks: 8	How to Create Effective Web Publishing Content I frequently tell my coaching clients about the importance of regularly updating web site content. Fresh content keeps customers coming back and gets indexed more frequently by search engines. Novelty spurs attention, whether human or technological. A few months ago, I received a question from a student who really wanted to update his web site on a regular basis, but was struggling with finding new material. Here are a few ideas for generating fresh content:
68.	Bookmarks: 3	How Synchronicity And Jung Appear In The Creative Process I was editing a passage in my novel CONDUCT IN QUESTION, the first in THE OSGOODE TRILOGY. The villainous Florist was about to march down the stairs to kill the young man, Donnie, hiding in the cloakroom. The boy had soaked the stair carpet with gasoline and was about to set it on fire. Would that, I debated, cause the impressive explosion of flames I had described? Who could give me advice on pyrotechnics? Moments later, when the doorbell rang, I was stunned to find two fire...
69.	Bookmarks: 2	How A City Can Be A Character In Your Novel Can a city be a character in a book? Many years ago, in a writing class, I was told that I should try to make the setting, which was Toronto, my city of birth, a character in my book, Conduct in Question. I have puzzled over this piece of advice for many years and only now think I may have an answer as to its meaning. Here’s another question. Can the city you’ve lived in all your life be a character or does intimacy somehow disqualify it? I have often longed to see Toront...
70.	Bookmarks: 0	Get Your Hands Dirty! Historical Research For Novelists For over a decade, while I was developing my writing skills, I had the great good fortune to work at a large outdoor ethnic museum near Milwaukee called Old World Wisconsin. This historic site includes a crossroads village and ten working farmsteads, with restoration dates ranging from 1845 through 1915. Old World Wisconsin is a place where Interpreters get their hands dirty, so my knowledge of historical domestic and agricultural processes grew exponentially. I learned ho...
71.	Bookmarks: 8	Getting Published:Tips For Young Writers The task of getting published is one of the daunting aspects of writing. This can be difficult, if you want to get published by a traditional publishing house. It's not as difficult if you want to self-publish. In this article I will share with you the steps involved in getting your work published either traditionally or through self-publishing.Mainstream publishers are often reluctant to accept work from young writers as anyone under 18 cannot sign a contract on their ow...
72.	Bookmarks: 2	From Writer To Author – A Self Published Author’s Journey As a newly self published author, I am amazed by how many people have told me that they have a novel or idea for a book that they always wanted to have published. I usually tell these aspiring writers that it can happen and, if they are willing to listen, I tell them my story about how I self published my book. I have always enjoyed writing, mostly for my own enjoyment, but knew I had a talent for creative writing. My first audience was my co-workers at a bank I worked for in...
73.	Bookmarks: 0	From The Battlefield To The Bookstore For many reenactors, military and civilian, one of the pleasures of a weekend spent in the field is that elusive moment when everything works. I’ve heard the sensation called “the bubble,” or simply “the magic.” There’s no way to predict exactly when it will happen. The feeling may last only seconds. But once you’ve experienced a moment that suddenly looks, smells, sounds, and feels so real that you completely forget your modern existence, you’ll be h...
74.	Bookmarks: 0	From Manuscript To Novel A Short Guide What do you do now that you have finished that great manuscript? Many believe you can simply start sending it out to agents or publishers sometimes even both. However this is simply not true, just because you have created this riveting tale, you cannot send it out and expect it to be published right then. No, there are many aspects to being published and even more frauds out there, where the only goal is to con you out of your money. Filling their pockets and leaving your...
75.	Bookmarks: 0	Four Useful Lies About Writing Most writing “experts” favor a particular way of looking at plot, and will adhere to it for years or an entire career. That’s all well and good, but its important to realize that any way of modeling story is just that—a model, not the depths and living essence of story itself.Problems arise when young (or experienced!) writers mistake a simplified structure for some deep and eternal truth. It’s much better to examine several structures, see what their strengths and ...
76.	Bookmarks: 3	First Time Novelist Faux Pau 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 view shifts and there is often a desire to try to pack as much into the story as possible.One of the key difficulties for new novelists is to track down inconsistencies in their work. Fo...
77.	Bookmarks: 0	Eleven Questions For Laura Preble, Author Ms. Preble is an award-winning teacher, a jazz singer and pianist, and the author of The Queen Geek Social Club and its just-published sequel Queen Geeks In Love (both available from Penguin Books). A self-admitted geek, Laura is a science fiction fan and currently lives in the San Diego area with her husband, jazz saxophonist Chris Klich and her sons Austin and Noel.T.E. Pouncey: I thoroughly enjoyed your novel. Are any of the elements in The Queen Geek Social Club autob...
78.	Bookmarks: 5	Editorial Advice: To Listen Or Not To Listen? Whether you're an author publishing through traditional means or delving into self-publishing, you are going to want the feedback of a good editor or perhaps more than one. The difficulty for authors, especially those choosing self-publishing is when do you take an editor's advice and make changes and when do you determine you've gotten enough feedback? This can be a tough call, and it often comes down to the author finding a happy medium.The first thing writers need to c...
79.	Bookmarks: 2	Do Writing Groups Really Help? You want to write about that heroine driving you insane or the hero of her dreams, but how to start? I suggest writing groups; you will find them both on the Internet and off. In your town or out of another country, but nowhere you go or where you look you will find the group that is right for you. How do I know, how can I be sure? Well i personally Co-Own my own group and am the member of another. I can tell you that my second novel would have not made it to paper witho...
80.	Bookmarks: 0	Don't Give Up On Writing That Novel Think it's hard to get a novel published? For most writers, it is - but it's certainly not impossible. I've had two hit the shelves-in 10 countries, and with book club and movie rights picked up. People often ask me how I did it, and the truth is simple. All it takes is, 1) talent, and 2) actually writing the thing.As much as I hate to admit it, the second is the more important factor.Fact is, plenty of great novels go unfinished. The statistics are staggering: of tho...
81.	Bookmarks: 3	Create The Bigger-than-life Character For Your Novel Who is the Bigger-Than-Life Character in Your Bestseller-Kind-Of-Novel?The main characters in the bestseller-kind-of novel are bigger-than-life. No wimps here. You can’t just tell us what they do; you have to show us what they do. Prove that they’ve bigger-than-life. These are people who find ways to solve the problems around them. They outsmart the bad guys. The bigger-than-life character overwhelms the enemy, somehow. They blow up blockade, so to speak—literally or emot...
82.	Bookmarks: 0	Confessions Of An Erotic Romance Writer: Getting My Groove Few people understand the importance of a ROUTINE when making a pittance...er, I meant a living...as a writer. Where do you work? How do you work? When do you work? These are all questions a selling writer fields with every interview.Here is the usual answer: I work wherever I am, as diligently as possible, as often as possible. This is my job and I must treat it as such or I will end up eating Oreos while watching Gilmore Girls.Here is the real answer: Whenever I ca...
83.	Bookmarks: 0	Compassion I never considered myself a particularly spiritual, or for that matter, a religious person. But I've found that in writing The Osgoode Trilogy, particularly the third, A Trial of One, that compassion has become very strong theme which runs through all three novels.I just found this quote from Thomas Aquinas — "I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it." Surely, this must be the difference between the understanding of the head and the heart. In the fir...
84.	Bookmarks: 2	Breathe Life Into Your Writing Have you ever read a passage and felt the breath of life, then was too speechless to describe it? That’s writing at its best. The method for creating such a moment comes from the use of emotions. Emotions are one of the single most important, touching, impressive and non-intrusive writing tools. It is often not recognized as a concrete tool, but as a feeling, a stirring, a capturing that catches the reader up in the fictive state.My aim is to take the mystery out of it. B...
85.	Bookmarks: 0	Book Review: The Next Thing On My List I think readers will agree with me that “The Next Thing on My List” is a wonderfully written heartwarming story about a woman’s self-discovery that will have you hooked from the very first page. Jill Smolinski knows and understands her audience and delivers a winner with her second novel.The story centers around a 34-year-old woman, June Parker, who is living aimlessly and without passion. Her life completely changes when she attends a Weight Watchers meeting and offers o...
86.	Bookmarks: 0	Book Review: Dance Of The Heart “Dance of the Heart” is a quick-read novel of only 118 pages, however, there is so much more to this story than one would expect. First of all, Therrian does a fantastic job of setting up the scenes, the characters, and the beginning. It was very clear to me who the characters were and what role they played.Michael Baldwin is successful and flourishing. He is well-balanced in his career as a successful professional dancer and home life with a longtime partner, David. And,...
87.	Bookmarks: 8	Book Review: Best Of Friends "Best of Friends" is a novel about the lives of the "Fabulous Five." The Fabulous Five is a group comprised of five wonderful, loyal ladies who have been best friends for years. Each woman in the group has her own issues to deal with and to learn from. The story mainly centers around Liz, whose mother has just passed away. Liz's family is about as dysfunctional as a family can be. The siblings have taken sides with each other. Liz always tries to be neutral, but when their ba...
88.	Bookmarks: 5	Book Review Of Stuart Nachbar's Book About Education And Politics Stuart Nachbar has created a curious novel in The Sex Ed Chronicles. Using a backdrop of 1980 New Jersey, we are introduced to the murky world of school politics. He has selected the contentious subject of compulsory Sex Education, however the subject could equally have been Religion or Evolution. All are subjects that have strong backers and equally strong detractors.Schools and School Boards may not be the media favorites that the House or Senate may be. But make no mis...
89.	Bookmarks: 1	Book Review Of No Matter What No Matter WhatJordana RyanAmira Press (2007)ISBN 9781934475041Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (5/07)"“No Matter What” is a very deep book. The characters have to deal with overcoming some very painful situations and emotions. This is the type of novel that you will want to read with your friends so that you can talk about it. It leads to a great deal of introspection and really makes you think about what it would be like to have faced everything that Cas...
90.	Bookmarks: 14	Book Review Of Landmark Status By Alan Rolnick A novel based around real estate in Miami, I was not convinced that I would enjoy it. I had thoughts of tawdry love affairs among realtor’s, and board room struggles between power brokers. But, instead I found a hugely entertaining, and side splittingly funny novel that makes me chuckle every time I see the cover. This is humor at its very apex. Humor is a hard genre to be successful in but this author definitely has 'The Write Stuff.'Alan Rolnick has created a vignette o...
91.	Bookmarks: 7	Blogging: A Writer’s Journal A novel way for a writer to keep prospects and fans in the loop on their progress as a writer is through the use of a web log or ‘Blog’.“This notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail.” – Eric SchmidtThis online tool has allowed many writers to share thoughts, humor, politics, and more with any and all who would visit. Si...
92.	Bookmarks: 12	A Few Dilemmas Of The Writing Journey Authoring as a Risk-Taking EndeavorBeing an unpublished novelist poses all sorts of dilemmas. Writing is entrepreneurial in nature, more than most people realize, and it is fraught with make or break decisions. Which side of the political spectrum do you show yourself? Do you embellish this or that social issue, perhaps the one most fashionable, or do you hide from them all?If your goal is publication for its own sake, and you've decided to write, say, Gothic romance ...
93.	Bookmarks: 3	A Different Way To Write Your First Novel If you’ve always wanted to write a novel, but found the traditional structured process too frightening or overwhelming, maybe your imagination works in a more organic fashion like mine. In that case, start with your main character and the idea the character gives you for the plot. Then close your eyes, grab your notebook or computer, and watch the main character. Sooner or later she or he will begin talking and moving around. When that happens, start writing! I guarantee what...
94.	Bookmarks: 0	A Beginner's Guide to Writing a Novel What makes it hard is not writing itself but how people make it hard than it really is.
95.	Bookmarks: 3	A Bad Literary Agent Can Be Worse Than No Agent At All. Types of things to watch out for with agents:* Charging the author a fee up front, to be accepted as a client. Can be called a reading fee, or a monthly "office expenses" charge. The best agents, and most successful ones, only charge a percentage fee of royalties the author earns, typically 15%. Suppose a realtor charged you a fee to come over and tour your house before getting the listing? How quickly would you show that realtor the door. . .* Charging back unusually...
96.	Bookmarks: 9	Authors: Do You Have A Web Site To Promote Your Book? I was browsing online the other day and discovered the news about a first time novelist who had recently published a book telling the story of an African tribe suffering the loss of land and identity. Her story is based on her true-life experiences and research. She’s even donating a portion of the book’s profits to a charity that helps the displaced people. Her whole story sounded intriguing. However, when I looked for her web site--I couldn’t find it.What a shame, I tho...
97.	Bookmarks: 0	All You Need To Know About Agents--For Now The agent issue is such an emotional one for writers. Having one is a huge validation. I was fortunate to sign with an agent while still writing my first novel and it was wonderful being able to work and know that someone was waiting for what I was writing. But the eagerness to have that feeling often pushes writers to make poor decisions when it comes to the hunt for an agent. With some thinking, solid preparation and research it is possible to hook up with an agent and ...
98.	Bookmarks: 0	Turn Writer's Blocks Into Stepping Stones! Years ago at a presentation at the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program, I promised an audience to teach them to conquer this beast once and for all. Later, another instructor approached me and said “why did you say that to those people? It’s not possible.”
99.	Bookmarks: 8	Top Secret! The One-Year Path To Publication There is a way to virtually guarantee your publication within a single year. No, it has nothing to do with self-publication. This path is not for dilettantes, and will push you to the limit, but it has worked for dozens of my students, and it will work for you.It is based on writing principles first proposed by two giants in the publishing field, science-fiction writers Ray Bradbury, and Robert Heinlein, over thirty years ago. And no, you don’t have to be a science fictio...
100.	Bookmarks: 3	The Casablanca Secret Good writing is often designed around a character who has a distorted vision of himself or of the world. During the story, he is placed under sufficient pressure to force an epiphany, a moment of clarity in which, he sees the world as it is, not as he wished it to be.A classic example is “Casablanca,” where Bogart’s immortal Rick has managed to create an insular world in which he can pretend to be utterly detached and uninvolved. He supposedly has no political beliefs, an...