Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

Don’t overstuff story with packing peanuts Knowing when you’ve overstuffed a box is easy enough. The sides bulge, and the lid won’t close. Knowing when you’ve overstuffed a box with packing peanuts is a matter of mastering the craft of writ…

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Ways your main character can ultimately succeed When reaching the climax of the story, the main character usually overcomes the central problem that he set out to solve. Still, this penultimate scene tends to play out differently from story…

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Writing Prompt: Thought-Provoking Question Suffering from writer’s block or need to add some spunk to your writing? The problem may be that you need to change up your routine. To that end, try this tip: Journaling often best unvei…

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Everything You Need to Know to Self-Publish Your Paperback - Three Books in One! #selfpub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #indiepublishing #kindle www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMNKSCPJ

Avoid reader confusion by anchoring story Readers beginning a story need to know where and when the tale occurs. This establishment of the story’s place and time in the first few paragraphs of the story sometimes is referred to as anchorin…

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Ways to advertise your book (mostly for free!) Even after running a successful promotional campaign to get media attention for your book, it may not have been enough to generate the book sales you desire or to create interest in your priva…

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Five Great Quotations about Theme “I don’t believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because thatR…

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Everything You Need to Know to Self-Publish Your Ebook - Three Books in One! #selfpub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #indiepublishing #kindle www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C...

Create a basic outline for your nonfiction book Many people have great ideas for nonfiction books, and given their experiences – recovering from an illness, working for years in a profession, solving a perplexing issue – they are ideal expe…

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How to Structure Your Nonfiction Book Perhaps the toughest question a nonfiction writer must answer is how to organize her book. Often there’s a lot of information to get out.Writers can take a variety of approaches, and som…

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Why do we have two title pages? Q: I have a lot of books at home and all the books have a half-title and then they have a title page with the name of book and author. Why do books have to have both a half-title page and a title p…

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On a shelf somewhere is a book about balloons. Except the book doesn't want to be about balloons. I am that book. #kidlit #childrensbooks #author #bookbuzz #readthis www.amazon.com/This-about-Bal...

Keep freeze-frame in story brief, relevant Sometimes the littlest detail, when mishandled, can significantly slow a story. Such is the case with a freeze-frame when writing fiction.A freeze-frame occurs when the writer briefly pauses the ac…

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Avoid name drift with proper planning One of the most common problems I see in novice writers’ manuscript is something I call “name drift.” This occurs when the spelling of a character’s name changes in the novel, or worse yet, th…

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12 Tips for Better Presentations to Sell Books • Boost book sales with public presentationsMany book authors are happy to simply do what they enjoy most, which is write. You also have to promote your published books, though, and a time-honored …

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Writing Prompt: Take Your Story Forward Suffering from writer’s block or need to add some spunk to your writing? The problem may be that you need to change up your routine. To that end, try this tip: Stories consist of many dif…

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Professional Book Editor in the Southland Affordable Book Editing | Novels | Nonfiction

Professional Book Editor in the Southern California
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Improve writing with ‘What do I mean when I say’ When writing fiction, you almost always want to show rather than tell. By showing, you infer through a character’s actions or dialogue what one feels.For example, Astonished, Laura said, “That’s no…

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Avoid Shifting Point of View in Your Story Novice writers often are tempted to shift the point of view in their stories. While a few published writers do so in their novels and short stories, this generally is uncommon, and you probabl…

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Do I need to buy a barcode when self-publishing? Q: When purchasing an ISBN, I’m always asked if I also want to purchase a barcode for my self-published book. Do I need to buy one?The answer generally is no. Most print-on-demand companies, such a…

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Five Great Quotations about the Writing Process “The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.” – Ma…

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Should you write a happy or an unhappy ending? When writing the climax your story, you’ll need to decide if the ending will be happy or unhappy.In a happy ending, the main character solves the story’s problems by restoring the status quo that t…

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Mimic sounds to appeal to sense of hearing As appealing to a sense of hearing when writing, you may want to include the sound itself. For example, if describing the sounds of insect-like aliens in the distance as writing a science fict…

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Do Kindle DP pre-orders help or hinder sales? As of summer 2014, indie authors can take pre-orders for their ebooks published on Kindle DP. But do pre-orders make good marketing sense?That depends where you’re at as an author.The pre-orde…

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