July 29th, 2009
If you’ve done any freewriting now is the time to develop a plot or a theme from those writings. Write down all your ideas for characters, events, and places. On indexcards flesh out your characters, tell about their hair color, eye color, build, education, job, hobbies. The more you know about your actors, the more believable they will be when you write your book.
Select a time frame and location. What do you want to write: mystery, historical, fantasy, or ethnic romance novels? Make that decision and then research the market and write to sell in that market. Study book covers, themes, and plots. What do the best sellers look like? Don’t reinvent the wheel.
In the first few pages of writing you must create intense interest. Book publishers and readers usually will not go much farther than the opening paragraphs. That old phrase,”if only I had known” did it’s job at providing suspense and interest. Can you think of an equally attention getting phrase? Of course you can!
Now, create your main character and endow them with human qualities. No one is perfect and they shouldn’t be either. Let their faults show. Fill out their index card with all the details of a living human being. Perhaps you can base your character on someone you know. Just be careful not to be too blatant writing your descriptions.
All characters must have a reason for being there. They should add something to the story. It may not be significant but they must help move the story along.And allow lots of dialog. Let your characters speak as they would in real life.
The main components to a romance novel are:
Interest = This is the boy/girl thing
Conflict = This is where they butt heads
Resolution = This is where all problems are resolved and they live happily ever after. Yes… give them a happy ending!
To the good part!! You could be at your own very first book signing in just a few months! That is not an outrageous claim. Thousands are doing it right now.
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June 12th, 2009
Romance novels are extremely popular and are the best-selling books. It has been estimated that there are well over two thousand romance novels that are published each year and there are over fifty million people that read romance novels. Normally a romance novel is going to possess certain themes consistently and are all grouped together by all of these themes.
Romance novels can include a similar time period, setting, type of conflict and level of sensuality. Normally, all of the companies that publish romance novels have a certain guidelines that all of their authors use when they are creating their new stories. The sole purpose of romance novels is to provide the reader with an escape from reality. During this time, the individual is able to ignore all of their responsibilities temporarily and transport themselves into the romance novel, pretending that they are the damsel in distress. The overall ability to have the ability to live out this romance fantasy is a very good way for some people to find a release from all of their daily troubles.
Within the marketplace, romance novels are the best sellers. You are able to purchase romance novels in each and every drug, discount retail and grocery establishments all around the country. You also have the opportunity to join several different book clubs so that you are able to automatically receive all of the latest romance novels each month. You don’t have to go out and purchase them; they will just keep mailing them out to you until you stop your membership.
The majority of individuals don’t purchase romance novels because there are so many that come out each month. They just go to their local library and borrow the books for a couple of weeks and then they will return them and get some more. There are some libraries that will sell all of the older copies of the books for ten cents each so that you are able to keep them just as long as your desire and you will never have to return them.
Even though the majority of women really hate to have to admit that they actually enjoy all of these romance novels, there really is nothing for them to be ashamed about.
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May 28th, 2009
People love to read short stories they are the perfect length for sitting in the Dr’s office or while you are waiting to get your hair cut. They are just long enough to grab your interest but not so long that you cannot finish them by the time your turn has come. They can be found in books as compilations or in magazines; they come in all genres and vary in length from several hundred words to several thousand words.
How do you go about making money with your stories and where do you start? If you have never tried to get a story published before this can seem to be a daunting task, we have all heard how hard it can be to get an editor to look at your work. In the printed book world this can sometimes seem to be the case, if you have ever faced an editor’s rejection you would understand.
Thankfully, there are many magazines that print short stories from unknown and well known authors, side by side. The biggest trick to finding one, is knowing how to use the Internet to couple your story with the right magazine, after all a horror story would not fit well in family circle. At most magazine companies you will find a list of their rules for submissions. If you want to have any chance at all you must follow these rules to the letter, any variance will end with a rejection notice no matter how good your story is.
There are places on the Internet that will help you get your stories published, many of them offer free services and will not only help you publish your work but will help you market it as well. Some of these such as Xilbris and Dorrance offer editorial and publishing services to help get your book the most publicity. A word to the wise though they will charge you for their services, but you get what you pay for and if you want to make money with your stories you are going to need a high quality publisher.
You can also sell your short stories on web sites in the form of eBooks. This is becoming a very popular medium for new writers and it is a great way to turn your short stories into some well deserved cash.
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