Creative NonFiction-The Most Misunderstood Genre The keyword is “NonFiction”
The creative piece is how it is written, turning nonfiction into a literary telling. The comment will often be that the book was written like a novel.
read moreDo your characters undergo some significant life changes? Here are 10 Reasons For Your Character’s Bad Behavior
One of a writer’s favorite things as an author is to create antagonists and to explore their dark side. It’s very helpful to understand the plausible causes for strange behaviors, extreme and irrational actions. As a reader, it helps us identify with the character and their life issues.
read moreI Don’t Miss My Corporate Job What is it like to Walk Through the Work World Female
We had Thanksgiving visitors and the subject came up that my cousin didn’t get a movie role, as it was given to a man instead. The role did not specify the gender or be a certain ethnicity or race. Just that it be a person of a certain age. That discussion then...
read moreDo You Hate Rewriting Your Work? I can change your mind and show you how to love it
Wouldn’t it be great if our first draft of any written piece was “publishing-ready?” Is that an impossible ask? Are not our fresh ideas the best ideas? Have you been working on a book for a period of time, and you just hate thinking, knowing it needs revisions, but...
read moreDo You Need a Preface, Foreword, or Prologue for Your Book? What determines whether you should have one or not?
First of all, what is the difference between a prologue, a preface, and a forward, and do either of these belong in your book? Prologue — An introduction that sets the scene for the story to come. Preface — An introduction written by the primary author(s) to provide...
read moreWant To Know How To Write A Book? Sit down in front of your computer.
I get asked a lot how I wrote my first book? And why did I decide to write it in the first place?
The truth is I never planned to write a book. I was a journalist, and to me, about 1500 words were my limit, and then I was done.
Books are too difficult and take too long to write.
That was then, and this is now. I’ve written and had traditionally published two books, and I’m working on a third.
read more