How to Format a Manuscript
No matter how brilliant your story or book concept, turning in an unprofessional-looking manuscript is enough to make an editor, agent, or publisher groan.
How to Write the Pain (and Why You Should)
We all experience pain and hurt in our lives. We get angry. We get sad. We feel shame, and grief, and guilt, and fear. Often we want to move on, get past it, do anything but talk about it.
5 Musts For a Powerful Memoir
Want to know how to write a memoir? It takes a bit more than fishing through your photo albums and diary entries and typing up your life’s story.
How to Start a Memoir
Often, aspiring memoirists come to me with a dilemma: “I have a story to tell and I want to write a memoir. But, I have no idea where to start!”
How to Craft Anecdotes for a Bestselling Non-Fiction Book
Anecdotes aren’t just for sparkling chitchat at dinner parties. When crafted with an honest eye, a nonfiction anecdote can tether a complex issue to a flesh-and-blood human being, bringing an understanding to readers they wouldn’t obtain otherwise.
3 Ways to Break Through to Your Reader
Have you always wanted to write a nonfiction book? Perhaps you’re a business owner, coach or consultant who wants to take your brand to the next level. Or maybe you’re an expert on a specific topic, and writing a book would assert your knowledge on a wider scale and break through to your reader.
Show, Don’t Tell: A Clear Guide
Every writer has received this comment at one point or another: “Show, don’t tell.” Usually, this is when writing needs a boost. Perhaps your descriptions fall flat, or your word choice isn’t specific enough to conjure an image in readers’ minds. Whatever the reason, your writing simply doesn’t come to life.
Create Believable Characters — Using Method Writing
“When I was eight years old, I saw a dark and eerie pencil sketch hanging in the study of a relative’s home: A man holding a test tube with an apparition of a demon staring at him. This visual experience was to have an effect on me later in life, particularly in my discovery of method acting for writers.” A blog by Khaled Talib.
3 Tips for Young Adult Fiction
If you’re an aspiring first-time author, there’s a good chance you’re writing young adult fiction, a mega facet of today’s publishing market. Books in the young-adult genre have long been popular and make up a huge chunk of new releases today.
The Editing Checklist Book Editors Use on Your Novel
If you’re writing a novel, chances are you are hoping to submit it to a traditional book publisher for a book deal. To do this, you need a novel submission — a standard package that pitches your novel to a literary agent or book publisher. What does that entail?
