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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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4 hours ago

What is an ‘inciting incident’ in a story? Q: I recently came across the term “inciting incident” in a book about fiction writing but no definition or example was given. What is the book talking about?A: A vital part of any story is the ope…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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9 hours ago

Constructing Your Story’s Main Character Typically a story is about a single character who overcomes some problem. This player in your story is called the main character. Common examples are Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” J…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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10 hours ago

My Writing Process for Fiction and Nonfiction As the author of more than 30 books, several of which have topped Amazon.com’s bestseller’s list for their genre, writers often ask me how I write them – that is, what process do I follow̷…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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13 hours ago

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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15 hours ago

Consider Using the Journey for a Mythic Plot One of the most common plot forms in modern fantasy and science fiction novels is the mythic structure. Often called a quest, in the mythic structure the protagonist undertakes an ex…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 day ago

Sell your book by asking people about themselves All too often authors approach marketing their book by talking about it. That seems to make sense; after all, your objective in marketing is to show potential buyers that your book is of value to t…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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2 days ago

Should I Copyright My Manuscript? You’ve just put the finishing touches on your book and are about to send it off to an editor, a literary agent, or maybe even a publishing house. Seemingly countless hours of thought and sweat…

Should I copyright my manuscript?
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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2 days ago

Five Great Quotations about Characters “Begin with an individual and you find that you have created a type; begin with a type and you find that you have created – nothing.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald“Supporting players …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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3 days ago

If Using MS Word, Don’t Place Tabs in Your Ebooks When formatting your manuscript for conversion to ebook, don’t use the tab key to indent paragraphs. Doing so usually results in your manuscript being declined for publication…or worse, being …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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3 days ago

Create a Riveting Opener for Your Story A vital part of your story is the opening lines, also known as the inciting incident. In this section of your story, we learn who the main character is, the central problem facing him and a li…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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4 days ago

Try ‘Taster Book’ if New to Self-Publishing If new to self-publishing, consider doing a “taster book” first. A taster book has a low word count (and subsequently few pages) that you can use to learn the self-publishing process. If a fic…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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4 days ago

Five Great Quotations about Backstory “If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.” –&nbs…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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5 days ago

7 Tips for Writing Better Dialogue For the full article, click the linked title: • How to pen engaging dialogue for your storyNo doubt your story will include dialogue in which characters speak to one another. Unfortunately, too man…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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6 days ago

Five Great Quotations about Storytelling “I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.” – Sherman Alexie“The principles of storytelling do not change. Going home. Coming of age. Sin and redemption. The h…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

5 Tips on Selling Books Within Your Book Click the title for a link to the article: • Include note asking readers to post a review• Place social media addresses in your book • Add social sharing links to your ebook• Ask at end of your boo…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

8 Tips on Creating an Author’s Platform • What exactly is an ‘author platform’? One of the most heard phrases mentioned when marketing a self-published book is author platform. Despite how commonly it’s heard, there’s a lot of confusion …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

4 Tips on Distributing Your Self-Published Book • Aim to simultaneously publish paperback, ebookWriters sometimes wonder which version of their book they should print first – the paperback or the ebook. Ideally, both would come out at about the …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

Five Great Quotations about Our Readers “…for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.” ̵…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

Five Great Quotations about Novels “On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.” – Penelope Fitzgerald“No one sa…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

How to Make Characters Three-Dimensional Today’s sophisticated readers generally demand that your stories contain three-dimensional characters, that is, a protagonist who behaves like a real person and who probably grows by learning …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

7 Tips for Descriptive Writing • Treat readers to vivid passages in your story • How to make your writing more vivid • What are examples of ‘concrete details’?• Work off the fat from overwritten descriptions Fat writ…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

22 Great Tips for Creating an Author’s Website • Build a website to promote your new bookFor very little money, authors easily can build a website with just limited knowledge of how they’re constructed or how they work. How do you do that, you …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

Tighten writing by deleting unneeded attribution If introducing a character through some action, there’s no need to add that they “said” something and then provide their line of dialogue. Simply describing what they’re doing is s…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

How to Make Characters Three-Dimensional Today’s sophisticated readers generally demand that your stories contain three-dimensional characters, that is, a protagonist who behaves like a real person and who probably grows by learning …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

12 tips for revising your own manuscript During the process of writing your novel or nonfiction book, you’ll probably spend a lot of time revising the manuscript. Catching every error in one reading is unlikely, but you can reduce th…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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1 week ago

How to Determine Your Ebook’s Price Among the big decisions you’ll make when publishing your ebook (and your paperback, for that matter) is what price to charge. If priced too high, you’ll decrease your sales to zero. If priced too l…

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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2 weeks ago

3 Secrets of Planning Your Writing Time For writers, often the problem with their planning process is that it’s not being done in the most effective manner. The result? Some writers are unproductive while others give up on planning …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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2 weeks ago

Five Great Quotations about What is a Writer “The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.” – John Lanchester“Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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2 weeks ago

How to Make Characters Three-Dimensional Today’s sophisticated readers generally demand that your stories contain three-dimensional characters, that is, a protagonist who behaves like a real person and who probably grows by learning …

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

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2 weeks ago

How to write a novel synopsis for a lit agent If you want to sell your novel to a publisher or get a literary agent to represent it, you’ll ultimately need to write a synopsis, or a brief summary of what occurs in your story. It typically is s…

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