Pros And Cons

The issues
Should you spend all your time possible on ‘writing a damn good novel?’ Or should you also spend time to see if you can develop a following in one of the Internet venues, such as MySpace, youtube,…

Nano Novel Writing Month

Chances are you think that maybe you can write a novel. There’s a writing contest out there: write 50,000 words of a novel in a month. It’s called Nano Novel Writing Month. You have to find the…

Chances are you feeling like a struggling writer this morning or evening, wherever you are on this planet.

Today you just can’t get to writing that 400 words, or is it 1500 words you have set for yourself as your daily…

You don’t even need chapters anymore in some novels, but then you might simply have a lot of chapters.

Normally a Chapter in a Novel is three to five scenes. What then makes the difference between a chapter and its scenes?…

What Makes The Difference?

If we are honest with you, how could I possibly be smart enough or wise enough to give you and me one of the big secrets in life?

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Should Writers Write Ezine Articles Or Blogs?

Blogs

Why should you want to write a blog when articles are better? I find myself as a writer wanting to say, write blogs. Blogs are personal. You get to give your personal views on…

Who? You? Why not?

The Secret!

We all have our secrets, but the biggest secret of all is how to be successful at something we have chosen to do.

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It’s not easy to write a novel, play or memoir and have it hang together as one whole.

Yet you must do so since intelligent readers will sense something inadequate if your story is not all interconnected in a way that…

We take a differing view from the usual in The Writer’s Interface about story characters.

Writing craft writers and teachers say that your characters motivate the action. Or they say that you should know your characters as you know a human being.

When…

This is the main screen of the WriteItNow software with the file in use being The Writer’s Interface. Note that the left column is an outline tree. It has all the pages you will read, modify and write in the…

Story illustrates life issues

The theme of an involving story illustrates life but also idealizes it.

In reading a published memoir the teacher liked in memoir-writing class I read the damn thing to see what the teacher and students thought was a good…

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1. What motivates a reader to buy and read your book? The hook?

2. The hook that keeps you reading. What a prominent literary agent says about the hook.

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Craft Lists are a major device of The Writer’s Interface.

We have to say in looking at writing software and writing craft books, they mostly say too little rather than too much. This means that other people’s craft books emphasize a few…

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The Writer’s Interface Procedures

Note that we clicked on The Writer’s Interface Procedures in the left outline tree and got the page on the right under the Chapters tab or folder. This shows how quickly you can go anywhere in your manuscript and…

Story Keys are primary story elements that stir interest and excitement in the reader. These therefore should be included in your development of story, of course depending on genre, if you are a genre writer. Thus, if these keys do not…

We have more than one The Writer’s Interface chapter on what a chapter is. As a writer you are equipped with templates and procedures for creating chapters. Thus at the beginning you get these to study and modify for creating story chapters.

We see…

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Read this report on writing a novel with a good chance of success in order to sort out in your own mind what works and does not work in terms of writing craft structures and issues.

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Chapter To Write Your Text In

In WriteItNow, and with The Writer’s Interface, you can write your actual chapter text right into all the planning that you do. Note the square cross above as a button. When you click on this you…

Notice the specificity of the suggestions. We see part of a list of craft points to deal with in a Reflection Scene. This is all original material from the author based on his ability to write manual type books in…