You’re sitting at a blank page. What do you write about. How does your story start?
Tag: Linda Wilson
Widening Your Reader Market on Amazon
As an author, you need to use as many strategies possible to get you and your books visible. Taking advantage of all Amazon has to offer is on of these strategies, and Linda Wilson offers practical tips on just that.
Theme is the Foundation of Your Story
To come up with your story’s theme, choose conflicts or situations from your own life.
Authors: Tips to Modeling Professional Books
A useful way to build your writing skills as an author is to model professional books.
Sell Your Books Face-to-Face
Book marketing encompasses a lot of strategies, one of them is selling books face-to-face. Find out how to go about it.
Two Ways to Format Your Manuscript
Contributed by Linda Wilson Properly formatting my MG mystery book loomed in the background during editing. The reckoning day arrived. Thanks to children’s author Margot Finke I knew who to call upon: the formatting service at Golden Box Books Publishing Services. Margot sang the praises of Golden Box author Erika M. Szabo, who did the…
5 Must-Know Tips to Help Revise Your Story
As author Michael Crichton has said, “writing is all about rewriting, which can be depressing, especially when after the seventh rewrite you find that’s still not working.” In other words, “books aren’t written, they’re re-written.”
A Story Revision Checklist
Having a story revision plan is a good way to be effective. For the first-round, it helps to condense long-winded paragraphs, find better word choices, make dialogue sound kid-friendly, and replace “telling” with “showing” passages.
How to Write a Children’s Fiction Book MBR Review
Anyone wondering how to write for children and where to begin would benefit from Karen Cioffi’s book, How to Write a Children’s Fiction Book. A thorough reading of Cioffi’s book cover-to-cover would be an excellent way to begin the path to publication.
Writing First Paragraphs
When Stephen King writes a first draft, he just writes. So, I understand this to mean that crafting comes with revision. And to draw your reader in, your opening line “should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know this.”