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881) Slushpile Memories
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By avoiding these common pitfalls and mistakes, you can make sure your manuscript rises to the top of the slushpile
Turn those rejections into acceptances-and contracts.
"Dear Author, Your story does not meet our needs at this time..."
You know your story is good, but still it was rejected. Over and over again. What are you doing wrong?
Are the odds against you?
How can an author climb to the top of a pile of competing manuscripts and actually catch...
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Concevoir l'histoire courte
Apprendre à
Évitez les pièges courants de la rédaction de nouvelles
Les écrivains débutants commettent souvent des erreurs courantes qui, avec un peu de savoir-faire, peuvent être corrigées ou évitées.
Créez l'intrigue parfaite pour votre nouvelle
Dans Crafting the Short Story, vous apprendrez la principale différence entre l'intrigue de la nouvelle et celle du roman et comment cela peut augmenter vos chances...
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Desde finales de la década de los 80, mi trabajo se ha centrado en la escritura y sus derivados. Al principio, la escritura era un mero pasatiempo, pero llegó a calar tanto en mí que decidí dedicarme a algo que me permitiese dar rienda suelta a mi pasión cada día. En 1989 conseguí mi primer trabajo en relaciones públicas. Durante los siguientes quince años, trabajé para tres organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro y, tras eso, pasé tres años...
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Telling Stories, Talking Craft is a collection of fifteen conversations with some of the finest contemporary fiction writers. These distinguished authors discuss their lives and their craft in candid, thought-provoking interviews from the pages of Sycamore Review, Purdue University's international journal of literature, opinion and the arts.
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English usage and grammar textbooks, at least those, volumes when in paper print, are so big, so heavy... so complete. Students toting books and laptops in backpacks need relief, just as home authors can use more space on their reference bookshelves. So You Want To Be an Author? takes up little space, and weight but most, importantly provides immediate answers to questions about grammar, spelling, punctuation and writing style. No searching through...
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Tienes una historia que contar al mundo
Tienes una historia que contar y no sabes como llevarla al papel. Conseguir una historia que no aburra y bien estructurada. Pero nadie te ha enseñado cómo hacerlo... hasta ahora.
Me llamo Raimon Samsó, soy autor de 32 libros, y he conseguido 2 premios literarios y he vendido cientos de miles de ejemplares.
Este libro te revelará las claves de mi éxito literario. He resumido lo que aprendí leyendo, hablando...
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¿Te gusta escribir? ¿Alguna vez has soñado en publicar un libro de tu autoría? ¿Lo has hecho y no ha tenido éxito?
De ser así, la obra que tienes en las manos puede ser una joya para ti. Debes de estudiarla, aplicar sus técnicas, coleccionarla. Podrás recorrer en sus páginas las etapas para que tu libro sea exitoso: producción, edición, lectura, reestructura y publicación. Ningún manual de escritura te enseñará lo que este. Naciste...
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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. When you look at the classic questions journalists ask, the first one is generally WHO? In noveling terms WHO relates to character.
Get ready to take a deep dive into the concept of character. WHO are these people, who've showed up demanding a place in your novel, anyway? You know they have a story to tell,...
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Améliorez vos compétences en rédaction
Recevez-vous toujours des lettres de refus concernant les romans et les nouvelles que vous soumettez sans savoir pourquoi ? 50 péchés d'écriture courants peuvent vous aider à surmonter les erreurs que de nombreux écrivains débutants commettent lorsqu'ils commencent à écrire.
Comment être publié
Cherchez-vous une lecture rapide sur la façon d'améliorer vos compétences en écriture sans avoir...
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Want to create a magic system for your world, but don't know where to start? Need help building religions and belief structures that feel real? From Sanctity to Sorcery breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will guide you from side-show trickster to all-powerful sorcerer. This workbook will help you to: Create a magic system your readers can truly believe in Build belief structures...
891) The Guided Author: A leader's practical guide to go from idea to a published book in a few months
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AUTHOR = AUTHORITY
Do you want to:
• Share your story and leave a legacy
• Attract clients that you like and scale your business
• Become an authority in your field and build an international personal brand
Then becoming an author is the answer!
BUT, if you're like most busy leaders, you don't have the time or the writing skills, and you're not even sure how to publish.
Those challenges probably kept you saying "tomorrow" for a few years.
IF...
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You've seen their names on the shelves of the local bookstore: Francine Rivers, Beth Moore, Tom Clancy, Rick Warren, Tim LeHaye, etc. You've seen biographies about D.L. Moody, Corrie Ten Boom, and the Hudson Twins. Slowly but surely, a dream forms in your own mind; A dream that becomes a quietly entertained heart-felt longing to see your own name on a book one day; to have your own story in print. With advances in technology and drastic changes in...
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Avez-vous du mal à créer vos personnages? Votre livre a été rejeté plusieurs fois? Et pourtant, vous êtes certain que votre intrigue est géniale.
L'intrigue n'est pas toujours ce que les lecteurs se rappellent le plus de votre livre, mais plutt un ou plusieurs personnages qui capturent leur attention, suscitent leur intérêt et les obligent à poursuivre la lecture pour découvrir la suite.
Ce sont les personnages de votre histoire qui invitent...
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What's your author strategy?
Strategy is more than selling books. It's about the survival of your author career tomorrow, next year, 10 years from now, and beyond.
In this guide, prolific author M. L. Ronn will teach you how to cultivate the practice of long-term thinking and strategic planning. He draws on his experience of over a decade of self-publishing and extensive experience in the corporate world where strategic planning is his job.
In...
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I'm not going to lie to you. There are no secret handshakes or rules that will get you on your particular dream-path. If there was, we'd all be on our own already. If you want to be a successful writer, be prepared to have to make up most of it as you go along. In these essays, Sean Williams-the bestselling author of over 120 short stories and fifty novels-shares his thoughts on the aspects of writing craft and the publishing business that young authors...
896) The Author Toolbox
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Ever feel overwhelmed as a writer? Wonder how you will get it all done?
Becoming an author in today's publishing world involves so much more than simply dreaming up an idea, putting words on a page, and then polishing it to perfection. There is also a website to build, a blog to write, a social media presence to build, a fan base to email, taxes to file, book launches to plan, and ongoing marketing campaigns to maintain... all while trying to write...
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The World Building From the Inside Out Workbook is filled with detailed questions and easy-to-grasp explanations to help you probe deeply into your created world's cultures and fill them with meaning that pushes plot and builds tension.
Specifically designed to work with the World Building From the Inside Out reference book, but can be used individually to jump start your creative process.
Ask questions. Dream big. Build the fantastic!
Also buy...
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You have a story you want to tell and have organised the time to do it. As you begin, your pen or fingers on the keyboard falter, like a little cough to clear your voice, and there's that nagging doubt that plagues you: Who am I to tell this story? What have I got to say? Dr. Amanda Apthorpe guides you in finding your authentic, dynamic voice using the successful techniques she has shared with hundreds of her writing students. This easy-to-follow...
899) Ten Minute Author
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What turns a writer into an author? Finishing.
Do you want to finish your manuscript? Or, do you want to write more words in less time? Ten Minute Author is a concise book describing a beautifully simple but powerful technique for creating a daily writing habit to finish your next manuscript. And the one after that. Aimed at both the complete beginner and published authors who want to write more consistently, Ten Minute Author shows how a simple...
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The marketplace is crowded. The industry is moving fast. Everyone has opinions about how you should work and how you should run your business. If you've found this book, there's a good chance you've heard them all. So, what am I saying that's any different?
I'm saying, there are some things we all need to quit doing. What are they? Take a look inside and see.
Of course, you could still click away, and go about your business. Up to you, Neo. Red...
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