Good storytellers differentiate between a crisis and conflict; whilst beginning authors often focus on the exciting crisis rather than the conflict that makes readers care about the characters enduring the crisis. Here's why you should try both.
Talking about interesting stuff relating to writers and the world of writing in general.
Saturday, 28 November 2020
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
P030 SUBMITTING TO LITERARY JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
You’ve written your book and need to promote it. One way of doing it is to find ways of advertising through literary journals and magazines. It's a good way to link your book to local interest subjects. Here's how.
Saturday, 21 November 2020
B020 HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR HORROR BOOK
This blog podcast looks at the way movie makers use trailers to advertise their movie and how you can utilise and adapt their techniques to promote your horror book.
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
P29 WRITING A CHILDRENS BOOK PT2
In the 2nd part of this podcast about writing a children's book we continue with working with an illustrator, how to revise, how to edit and cut out the dross and finally how to publish.
Sunday, 15 November 2020
P28 WRITING A CHILDRENS BOOK PT1
This two-part podcast concentrates on some easy steps to writing a children's book. We start with generating a concept that works, creating a character children will love, knowing the length to write and structuring a good plot.