The Easy Way to Write a Novel That Sells
Rob Parnell
Language: English
Pages: 303
ISBN: B010EQ8FRY
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Rob Parnell, "the world's foremost writing guru" - and Kindle bestselling author, brings you the ultimate easy way to write a novel that sells. Even if you've never written a word of fiction before!
Here's a complete guide to planning, creating and writing a great full length novel in the shortest possible time.
Includes a 12-module Fiction 101 writing course to help you with the 'rules' of characterization, plotting, point of view, scene structure, novel templates and much more.
With step by step, no nonsense tips, techniques and simple strategies, this book will enable you to turn your most treasured dream - to write a novel that sells - into a reality.
You'll be able to turn on the tap to instant creativity.
You will gain the all important Author's Mindset!
You'll learn how to banish self doubt and lack of confidence.
You'll have access to all the tricks and skills of professional writers.
Best of all, whilst writing for no more than an hour or two a day, you'll be able to finish an entire novel - easily - in less than a month.
Guaranteed!
Most people - even some professional writers - think that writing a novel is hard. That it's something that requires dedication, talent and heaps of spare time.
Amateurs think it's something that only others can do. These are some of the most persistent myths that surround the writing process.
Rob Parnell's new book explodes those myths!
Based on information gleaned from twenty-five years of writing and working with hundreds of writers, artists, screenwriters, agents, producers, directors, managers and publishers, this book will take you on an exciting journey.
It's a frank, honest and thorough road map to success. You will learn how to write fast and well and easily - in fact, probably faster and better than you ever thought possible!
You Will Discover:
* How to acquire an author's mindset - easily, quickly and without effort.
* Writing Q.E.D - creating compelling fiction no-one can ignore!
* The trick to getting your reader to love your characters
* Revolutionary F.A.S.T. editing
* The Six Killer Rules for writing any fiction.
* The Ten Deadly Sins writers commit - so you don't have to!
* How to deal with procrastination and the dreaded writer's block.
* How to deal with distractions including family, friends and spouses!
* Learn the secret to boundless creativity
* All the tips, tools and techniques necessary for fast, faultless fiction!
* All this and much, much more!
These skills would likely take you years to learn. Why waste that valuable time?
It's all here!
Rob has been a writer all his life. He's passionate about writing. Ask any of his 100,000 students at www.easywaytowrite.com and they'll tell you. His aim is to help writers - no matter where they're at - to succeed.
Here's a secret:
Good fiction writing can be taught.
You don't need to be a genius, or hugely talented or even clever.
Good writing can be taught.
Have you ever been amazed by an author's success? Especially when their writing is average? There's a reason for it.
The truth is anyone, with the right guidance, can create compelling fiction. Anyone can write a brilliant novel. Yep. Even you.
Over the years, Rob has worked with thousands of writers, on all kinds of projects. The same excuses keep coming up.
* I don't have the time to write
* I can't get my head around this story - it's too hard
* I don't know where to start
* I'm not good enough
* I can't get this character right
* This plot doesn't work as well I thought it would
You've probably used a few of these yourself in the past.
The fact is all the above excuses are the result of wrong thinking. That's where "The Easy Way to Write a Novel That Sells" can help you most. It goes right to heart of writers' problems and deconstructs them from the inside out.
be able to make the time they never had before. It’s looking at this seemingly contradictory behavior, and trying to make sense of it that, in large part, has led to this book. There’s no big secret to writing a novel. Rather it’s a sequence of events. Not just physical events but also moments of decision that a writer must go through to reach the endpoint of “novelist”. Some writers take years to learn the knack of it. The object of this book it to help you through those events and
them in context. As soon as you have an idea, your writer’s brain should kick in and decide what the idea might lead to. A scene? A short story or a novel? It will be for you to decide. For example, using the idea of the lady with dementia from above, I decided that the story should be told as a children’s picture book. Though I knew I wouldn’t be doing the artwork myself, I do know that children’s picture books are generally less than 700 words long – sometimes as short as 200. So, seeing
sister, don’t make me—” Try to avoid using ellipses at all. To many writers they signify a pause – usually in their thinking. They’re more effective when implied rather than used. Also, commas are utilized to separate out names in dialogue, as in: “You know what I want, Dave.” Or, “Dave, you know what I want.” The same is true for terms like Mum, darling, sweetie, mate or whatever. A quick note. Contrary to ‘conventional’ wisdom, a semicolon is not ‘half way between a comma
will need to improve. More importantly, you will need to WANT to improve, consistently. Bear in mind that according to the American Society of Authors, most ‘professional’ writers earn less than $12,000 a year from their writing – at first. It’s only those that persist and hone their craft for the market that rise above this average figure to become wealthy, best selling writers. Of course you have to love writing – or at least feel a compulsion that you can’t control. But you also need to be
submissions and then proceed to send them back to you! Apparently, there is a copyright issue here. If a writer can prove that a publisher once held an electronic version of his or her book and the publisher subsequently publishes a similar book, the complainant, assuming the writer takes them to court, is likely to win the case. It’s a mistake to get paranoid about it but ideas do get ‘recycled’ all the time. A publishing person might take on board your idea – only to reject it - and then