Writing Motivation: The Energy Your Writing Brings to Readers is Directly Proportional to the Energy You Put into Your Book.
Effort is the one thing you can control when writing and publishing a book. Other variables – how many books on the topic are coming out at the same time as your title, those authors’ level of expertise and writing abilities, if someone buys their book on Amazon.com – are nothing you can really influence. If those variables you can’t control do work in your favor, then you’ve simply enjoyed some good luck. READ MORE
Self-Publishing Tip: How to Design Your Ebook Cover
Most potential readers of your ebook will first encounter it online as an image – the book’s cover. If that thumbnail doesn’t cause viewers to take a closer look at the accompanying text descriptions of your book, you are farther away from making a sale. How do you create an ebook cover? My new book Design Your Ebook Cover answers that question. Using easy to understand and short explanations, it describes what software/apps you need, moves on to the cover’s various elements, and finally looks at uploading it to a print on demand company like Kindle Direct Publishing. SEE BOOK
Writing Tip: Consider Employing a Deceiver in Your Plot
Sometimes the plot of your story requires that the viewpoint character keep his identity secret from other characters. Such a character is known as a deceiver. READ MORE
Writing Course: Mastering Show Don’t Tell
My new course Mastering Show Don’t Tell helps you write vibrant stories by teaching how to identify and fix all the places where telling – or exposition – rears up in your writing: backstory; info dumps; backfill; vague descriptions; irrelevant character details; emotional states; motivational tells; narration; summarizing; poorly written dialogue; and more! Length of course: 15 lesson readings and quizzes; 2-3 hours. Homework is up to the student. CHECK IT OUT
Self-Publishing Tip: How to Number Your Book’s Pages in MS Word
For authors self-publishing their books, among the biggest challenges is placing the page numbers, especially if formatting in Microsoft Word. READ MORE
This Week’s Podcast: Write a Great Narrative Hook for Your Fiction Story
One sign of a good opener is that it makes the reader want to continue with the story. Using a fishing metaphor, a good opener “hooks” the reader. LISTEN TO PODCAST
Book Marketing Tip: Try BlueSky for a Saner Social Media Experience
Don’t feel like you’re reaching many people on Xitter (X/Twitter) anymore? Tired of your Xitter feed being filled with mean-spirited political propaganda? Then come over to BlueSky for an invigorating, friendlier experience with fellow writers. The new social media platform works like Xitter used to function before the Russian bots took over and you know who bought it. So far, we’re at 21 million plus users and growing. Yeah, that’s still small compared to Xitter, but with every person who joins BlueSky after leaving Xitter, the larger we grow and the smaller they get (see how that works?). GO TO BLUESKY
Client Spotlight: “Crunch Crunch Snap” by Jessica Peterson
A recent editing client, Jessica Peterson, has published her first children’s book! Beautifully illustrated, Crunch Crunch Snap tells the tale of a daughter who goes on a hike with her dad, and the wonderful memories they make along the way. CHECK IT OUT
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of both aspiring and published writers and offers a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of a novel, the Storytelling 101 Quick Read series, four children’s books, more than 25 bestselling hiking guidebooks, and even a book of poetry. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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