How to Write a Novel: Series of Best Practices Launches with Writing Tips
How to Write a Novel: Best Practices, launches as a weekly series of tips on the business of writing and the foundations of fiction. This series covers many of the professional protocols that literary agents and book editors expect from a fiction w
Online, March 13, 2012 (Newswire.com) - A new weekly series, How to Write a Novel: Best Practices, debuted today at WritingNovelsThatSell.com to educate fiction writers who've set their hearts on book publication through a major publishing house.
"As a book writing coach, the number one question that I get from aspiring novelists is, How do I write a novel? The 2nd question I get is, How do I start a novel?" said Adrienne deWolfe, award-winning novelist and principal at WritingNovelsThatSell.com.
The Internet has made it easier than ever to gain access to tips about writing, deWolfe said, but not all information is created equal. The amount of bad advice on the web is overwhelming.
"Today on Twitter, for instance, a well-established literary agent was complaining that aspiring novelists are sending her individual chapters, rather than a full manuscript," deWolfe said. "If writers were finding the professional advice that they needed - rather than irrelevant ads and self-aggrandizing claims by wannabes -- they wouldn't be making such an amateur faux pas."
DeWolfe cautions fiction writers that literary agents and book editors have long memories. To repeat amateur mistakes is to raise a red flag in the minds of publishing professionals. Eventually, literary agents and book editors come to remember fiction writers who mail amateur submissions, and those publishing professionals will stop opening the correspondence from those writers.
In deWolfe's new blog series, How to Write a Novel: Best Practices (http://tinyurl.com/7h634sh), she covers many of the professional protocols that literary agents and book editors expect from a fiction writer. She also delivers insights from her many years of experience as an award-winning novelist, Internet marketer, and fiction contest judge.
In the first post of the series, Character versus Story Plot, deWolfe explains the difference between being a character writer and a plot writer, and raises the question, Which is better?, by encouraging readers to express their views.
Future topics that are planned for the series include Market Research, Character Growth, Literary Hooks, Flashbacks, Cliff Hangers, and Self-Promotion.
About WritingNovelsThatSell.com:
Developed specifically to speed genre fiction novel writers toward publication, http://WritingNovelsThatSell.com provides story critiques; online writing workshops and courses; writing resources; and writing tips on topics ranging from the business of writing to the foundations of fiction.
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