Three Potential Ways to End Your Story – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for Aug. 5, 2025

Plotting Your Book: Three Potential Ways to End Your Story
In every story, there comes a turning point or an ultimate moment in which the situation has become so intolerable that the main character must take a decisive step and emerge victorious. This scene is known as the climax. There are three possible ways the story can for the main character – or three general climaxes – that you can write. READ MORE

Never Experience Self-Doubt about Your Writing Again
Suffering from writer’s block? Self-doubt about your talent? Has creative writing lost its joy? With Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers, you can reclaim the pleasure of writing and pen the book you’ve always dreamed of. Respected and award-winning author Rob Bignell offers uplifting, meaningful phrases that can be read out loud or internalized weekly over the course of a year. Writing prompts and tips follow each affirmation, giving you the inspiration and motivation to keep writing. When you’ve completed this book, you’ll be able to say “I am a writer” with confidence! SEE BOOK.

Writing Tip: Improve Writing by Eliminating Ambiguities
Sometimes when writing, we unintentionally create ambiguity – that is, we write a sentence that can be interpreted in more than one way. You’ve probably ran into this when reading instructions for a do-it-yourself kit or when trying to resolve some technical issue with your computer.  READ MORE

Self-Publishing Tip: Get Rid of Those Red Proofreading Marks in Word
When editing your manuscript in Microsoft Word, one of the more useful features is the Track Changes mode. This handy tool will allow you to see what changes were made (typically by showing red proofreading marks), view a final copy of the manuscript without all of those red marks, and to even see the original version of the manuscript before any editing at all was done. Unfortunately, every time you open up a Word file edited in the Track Changes mode, the program has this annoying habit of showing all of those red proofreading marks – even if the last time you viewed the document it was set to be seen in its final form without the editing symbols. READ MORE

This Week’s Podcast: How Do You Know When Your Book is Done?
Some writers rush to get a book out, even though it’s full of typos or major flaws plague the story arc. A good many writers, however, never even reach the publishing stage because they’re still “working” on their book. Dissatisfied that their manuscript isn’t of a high enough standard, they continue to tinker and polish, so that their “final draft” perpetually remains a fuzzy vision. LISTEN TO PODCAST

Book Marketing Tip: Promote Your Book with Television Interview
As a self-published author, you’d be wrong to think that landing a television interview is out of your realm. There are a number of local and cable programs always on the look for people to interview, so be sure to send them your media kit. You may want to do a little more research, though, about who exactly to target. Based on the book’s topic and genre, some programs will be more ideal than others for you. Seek out television interviews just as you would those for a radio program by sending out your media kit. READ MORE

Client Spotlight: “My Paper, My Words: Rantings from a Progressive Boomer and Peeved Parent” by Geoffrey Reilly
Among the genres I edit are political and cultural essays. An anthology in this genre that I recently edited was just published – Geoffrey Reilly’s  “My Paper, My Words: Rantings from a Progressive Boomer and Peeved Parent.” The collection of essays, stories and poems reflect the challenges of a middle-class husband and father trying to navigate a rapidly changing political, religious and technological landscape of post-911 America. It’s available as a Kindle ebook. 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.