by MKMarketing | Jun 4, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts
A good book makes you want to live in the story. A great book gives you no choice. When a reader comes to the end of your novel, he or she lives in the world of your characters. If the story was compelling enough to get to the last word, chances are good this reader...
by MKMarketing | Apr 30, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts
Every time Dan Brown publishes a book, it quickly becomes the best-selling book of the year. In fact, Brown’s 2013 release of Inferno earned sales toppling both J.K. Rowling’s The Cuckoo’s Calling, and Veronica Roth’s enormously popular...
by MKMarketing | Apr 2, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing
Like me, you’ve probably toyed with some tried-and-true novel structures. I always end up bending them to my own will–trying to make things work in a way that’s convenient to me. I’ve kept my eye open for a foolproof recipe, because a...
by MKMarketing | Nov 3, 2011 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts, Who is Writing What?
Writing “well” should be good enough. Good enough to score an agent and a publishing contract. Good enough to entice a potential reader to move past page one, and keep reading, breaking only for food and the uncontrollable urge to refer your book to everyone with an...
by MKMarketing | Sep 12, 2011 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing, Guest posts
Kristen Lamb just hit me over the head. I’ve been contemplating an issue with my fiction writing lately, namely the balance between “poetic” description (of scenes, characters’ appearance, sex, etc.) and maintaining straight-forward clarity to allow my reader to build...
