Freelance fiction: get started writing novels for money
Can you make money writing novels? Yes, you can, but you need to approach it in a methodical fashion. Realize that you (probably) won’t sell your first novel Look on your first novel as a learning...
View ArticleGrow your novel organically
There’s a lovely description of the development of a novel on the Literature and Latte Blog, in the post A brief history of Scrivener: Part 2 – When you begin the work on a book – mentally, before...
View ArticleServing your writers’ apprenticeship: just do it
Novelist Tess Gerritsen has a great post “Writers and desperation”. Words of wisdom: So why do they think that they can write a publishable novel their first time out, without bothering to first learn...
View ArticleBegin your novel with a blast – and keep blasting
Many freelance writers are closet novelists. To make their daily bread, they write copy for businesses, articles for magazines, or technical manuals. Secretly, they’re working on a novel. The challenge...
View ArticleNovels: high concept Lottery
A “high concept” is an idea that’s evocative and that’s unusual enough to sell a novel or screenplay based on a blurb. Fist-time novelist Patricia Wood scores with her novel Lottery, because it has a...
View ArticleWrite a book: advice from a master, Bernard Cornwell
Wonderful writing advice from Bernard Cornwell. He says: “… you have to get past the horrid stage of not enjoying it, and that is usually caused by a lack of confidence. Is the stuff we’re producing...
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