Synopsis: As the author of twenty-four novels, Elizabeth George is one of the most successful--and prolific--novelists today. In Mastering the Process, George offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel.For many writers, the biggest challenge is figuring out how to take that earliest glimmer of inspiration and shape it... Continue Reading →
11 Ways to Fix a Novel Take a look at the overall plot and structure. Ask yourself if it represents what you're trying to say, and how you're trying to say it. Write a synopsis. Take a walk through your scenes. Write them down and look them over. Let your ideas flow. Create a storyboard.... Continue Reading →
In your book be sure to show the following: - Physical characteristics - such as age, height, clothes, and manner of speaking. - Background/ History - such as family situations, childhood events, rich or poor, married or not. - Ethics/ Morals - is this person good or bad? How about naming characters? - Mix &... Continue Reading →
30 Days to Your Finished Novel Course is outline below: Writers need to do many things such as keep up their writing skills, tone up their skills to the next level, learn how to engage readers with their plot, and how to make their stories the ones readers won't ever forget. But where do writers... Continue Reading →
Here is a great story plot idea, that I wanted to share with you all:Your character is in his/her late teens and living in his/her parents' home. One day, your character's parents sit him/her down and say that they've decided it's time for him/her to become independent. They inform your character that s/he has to... Continue Reading →
Kyle Andrews was living alone until the death of his brother and his sister in-law. He was then left with the custody of their four children. The youngest one is an infant, the next one two, then four, and the oldest is eight. Write using this as your novel opener. Then mention what happens next.... Continue Reading →
New Writing challenge for our Cozy Mystery book we are writing. So, far we have written that a young woman named Susie Hayes was last seen alive walking towards the Opera House. And has since then vanished without leaving a trace. Now, five years later after reconstruction of the old Opera House, a young woman's... Continue Reading →
It's now 1879, when a young woman named Susie Hayes body is found after an old Opera House was being reconstructed. No one knows how she got there or why. And what was the cause of death? Upon further investigation, police found out that in her right fist held in so tightly was a note!... Continue Reading →
Writing Short Fiction- Free Writing Course Assignments # 2 & #3 are posted. If you need any help with these assignments do not hesitate in emailing me on there. To access these assignments please click on the above link! The third Assignment on there is one that will be of your own choosing. I will... Continue Reading →
Ready for a different topic? One that can be written as a Cozy Mystery? Well here it is: In March 1874, a young woman called Susie Hayes goes missing. Nobody knows where she's gone. She was last seen walking towards the Opera House. No one saw her go in or exit the Opera House. After... Continue Reading →
Free Writing Course- Short Fiction Writing Fiction in short 600 word parts. This gives writers a challenge to meet daily and a way to add chapters quickly to compile into a book to be published after they complete the course. Every day there will be a new assignment to complete. That will add continuously to... Continue Reading →
Writing Short Fiction is a free writing course that will be open for all to access. It is self-paced and will help writers, write fiction in a short easy way! In this course, writers will learn characterization, creating conflicts, adding suspense, hooking readers, how to develop different scenes as the plots develop. You do not... Continue Reading →
Ready for another writing challenge? Here is the second part: In 500 words, write about who sent the 30-year-old woman the letter? Was it from someone she knew? Or is it from someone from her past that brought up something bad that happened years ago? Either way, mention who gave her the letter and why?... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow, I will be posting the second part of the first writing challenge. The second part will also be a 500 word requirement as well. We will take what you posted for the first writing challange and add to it. We will also keep readers hooked by creating another conflict. Conflict hooks readers in because... Continue Reading →
Today, I challenge all of you to a writing challenge. Are you ready? Okay, here it is: Using only 500 words write what happens to a 30-year-old woman who recently was laid off her low-income job as a waitress and is so behind paying her rent is kicked out with nowhere to go.... Continue Reading →
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