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    124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips: Win Readers And Fans, And Increase Your Sales Today
    124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips: Win Readers And Fans, And Increase Your Sales Today
    124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips: Win Readers And Fans, And Increase Your Sales Today
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    124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips: Win Readers And Fans, And Increase Your Sales Today

    By Angela Booth

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    About this ebook

    You're a professional writer. 

    You want to write fiction. Perhaps you're a self-publishing author — or perhaps you're a ghostwriter, and want to offer fiction writing services to clients.

    Whatever your needs and dreams, this book, 124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips: Win Readers And Fans, And Increase Your Sales Today, will help.

    Angela Booth's writing tips have helped thousands of writers

    Angela Booth writes several popular writing blogs. Her blogs have helped writers for two decades; many writers cite Angela's inspiring and motivational blogs for kickstarting their careers.

    For Angela, writing fiction is like coming home — she started her career as a romance novelist with British publisher Macdonald Futura. When self-publishing took off as a viable opportunity for professional writers, Angela was happy to provide fiction writing tips for her blog's readers. And to get back to focusing on writing fiction herself. 

    Nowadays she jokes that she might as well turn her blogs into "how to write fiction" classes. The most popular blog posts are always about writing fiction.

    After many requests, she's compiled the best of her fiction tips from her blogs into this book. Not only are these tips powerful and practical, they've been tested by Angela's readers, so you'll find the tips both fun to read, and to practice.

    But how viable is fiction as an opportunity for professional writers?

    Can you make a living writing fiction today?

    Today, hundreds of thousands of novelists are doing that, with varying degrees of success. 

    Will fiction provide an income for you? No one knows. You don't know either. However, if you're drawn to fiction, these tips will help you.

    Enjoy writing fiction. Today, your opportunities are limited only by your imagination — and your writing and marketing skills.

    Have fun… 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAngela Booth
    Release dateApr 21, 2018
    ISBN9781386302179
    124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips: Win Readers And Fans, And Increase Your Sales Today

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      124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips - Angela Booth

      124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips

      124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips

      Win Readers And Fans, And Increase Your Sales Today

      Angela Booth

      Angela Booth

      124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips: Win Readers And Fans, And Increase Your Sales Today

      by Angela Booth

      Text and images Copyright © 2018 Angela Booth. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Many of this books tips were previously published on Angela’s blogs for writers:

      * The Fab Freelance Writing Blog; and

      * The Just Write a Book Blog.

      Visit the blogs for more writing tips.

      Contents

      About this book

      Introduction: my fiction writing process

      How to use the tips

      Chapter 1

      Fiction is entertainment: it's story

      Creativity and idea hunting

      Prewriting: fire up your imagination

      Chapter 2

      Develop inspiration and build productive writing habits

      Outline fiction (and nonfiction) with ease

      The pantsing life: outline however, whenever

      Chapter 3

      Create characters readers love, FAST

      Characters and plot: your plot is what your characters DO

      Character creation basics

      Chapter 4

      Plotting for pantsers who believe: I can't PLOT...

      Plot basics: craft a plot which sells your novel

      Writing serials: plotting them and more

      Chapter 5

      Scenes and plotting: getting started with scenes

      Writing: focus on your scenes

      Suspense and plotting: writing BIG scenes

      Chapter 6

      Step by step: micro and macro editing

      First steps in editing your novel

      Chapter 7

      Genres: categorizing your stories

      Get ready to market your fiction

      Marketing secrets for self-published authors

      Traditional book marketing: offering your fiction to legacy publishers

      Consider and mould your branding

      Market to build your readership: it's your platform

      Chapter 8

      Build great writing habits

      Build great writing processes

      Preview: Blurbs Sell Your Books

      About the Author

      Also by Angela Booth

      About this book

      You're a professional writer.

      You want to write fiction. Perhaps you're a self-publishing author — or perhaps you're a ghostwriter, and want to offer fiction writing services to clients.

      Whatever your needs and dreams, this book, 124 Powerful Fiction Writing Tips: Win Readers And Fans, And Increase Your Sales Today, will help.

      Angela Booth's writing tips have helped thousands of writers

      Angela Booth writes several popular writing blogs, including the Fab Freelance Writing Blog.

      Her blogs have helped writers for two decades; many writers cite Angela's inspiring and motivational blogs for kickstarting their careers.

      For Angela, writing fiction is like coming home — she started her career as a romance novelist with British publisher Macdonald Futura. When self-publishing took off as a viable opportunity for professional writers, Angela was happy to provide fiction writing tips for her blog's readers. And to get back to focusing on writing fiction herself.

      Nowadays she jokes that she might as well turn her blogs into how to write fiction classes. The most popular blog posts are always about writing fiction.

      After many requests, she's compiled the best of her fiction tips from her blogs into this book. Not only are these tips powerful and practical, they've been tested by Angela's readers, so you'll find the tips both fun to read, and to practice.

      But how viable is fiction as an opportunity for professional writers?

      Can you make a living writing fiction today?

      Today, hundreds of thousands of novelists are doing that, with varying degrees of success.

      Will fiction provide an income for you? No one knows. You don't know either. However, if you're drawn to fiction, these tips will help you.

      Angela includes tips in various categories:

      * Firing your imagination with prewriting;

      * Selecting winning ideas, and writing novels in fiction's many genres;

      * Characters and plotting;

      * Building suspense and pacing;

      * Maintaining enthusiasm for your novel and finding time to write;

      * After the first draft… and more.

      Enjoy writing fiction. Today, your opportunities are limited only by your imagination — and your writing and marketing skills.

      Have fun…

      Introduction: my fiction writing process

      Hi Fellow Author

      Welcome.

      I've compiled this book from the many fiction tips I've posted in articles on my blogs for writers. These tips were developed from my own experiences over the years, and from the experiences of my students.

      Students and blog readers often ask how I write. So, while there are many, many ways to write a novel, here's my current process.

      My current novel-writing process

      For my own projects, under various pen names, and for my ghostwriting clients, I always aim to write novels in series.

      Readers like series fiction — if they enjoy a novel's world, and characters, they're happy when they know that they can dip into that world again. Indeed, some readers end up buying every book in a 21 book series, and looking for more.

      Even if I get a sudden rush of blood to the head with a brilliant idea for a book — a mystery, let's say, which I consider a standalone, at the back of my mind I'm wondering whether I can turn this novel into a series.

      So here's my process.

      1. Choose an idea. I keep my Idea Banks in two primary note-taking apps across my computers and devices: Evernote and Bear. Usually, I've chosen an idea before I finish the previous novel, and have made some notes.

      2. Develop the idea.

      To develop the idea, I start by thinking about the main character, and his or her primary attributes (traits), and I create mind maps. Mind maps help me to visualize characters, settings, and events.

      Next, I create several more characters, also focusing on their traits, because when I know each character's attributes, I know what he would, or would not, do.

      I also develop a situation for the main character: the main character is jolted out of his ordinary world by a threat, or challenge. He must meet this challenge — there's no way he can refuse, because it threatens something he values.

      3. Create scenes — just a sentence or two for each scene.

      Once I know the primary characters, and the threatening situation in which they find themselves, I make notes for scenes, which I divide into sections: the Setup (the first 25% of the novel), and the scenes leading up to the Midpoint Twist, and beyond.

      4. Start writing the draft, while planning and plotting further scenes and character developments.

      5. Read my research materials.

      While I'm writing the draft, I also read research materials. Currently I'm writing a mystery novel set in 1930s Germany. (I’m hoping my sleuth will turn into a series character.)

      I have a stack of research materials in the Kindle app on my iPad, and schedule time for reading for research each day.

      I’ve found that especially when I write historical fiction, reading for research while I’m writing a novel helps me to write more easily. Fresh characters and situations come to mind in my daily writing, and the words flow. I suspect that this is because reading immerses you more fully into the era about which you’re writing.

      6. Complete the draft.

      7. Revise the draft.

      8. Send the draft (which is now the second draft) to three of my beta readers, who read

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