Tag Archive | reading
How to Keep Married Fictional Couples Interesting Without Splitting Them Up
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Stephanie O’Brien You’ve just spent an entire novel bringing an amazing couple together. They’re passionate, fun and fascinating to watch, and their chemistry has fans raving about how wonderful they are. They’re so great that you’ve decided to write a sequel starring them… but there’s just one challenge. You…
Aided by Apps, Audiobooks Market Grows in Japan
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
by The Japan Times The use of audiobooks is increasing steadily in Japan, providing a boon to the publishing industry, which is facing declining sales of ordinary books. Audiobooks already account for 10 percent of book sales in the United States and Europe. In the U.S., audiobooks, which started as…
Do You Judge Writers?
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? ? by Christopher Slater Whenever a person reads what someone else has written, there is always an expected level of judgment. The reader is going to judge whether the topic of the writing is something that they are interested in. They will judge the writer’s ability to express themselves…
When Dedications Leave Something to Be Desired
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
How authors dedicate books tells us a lot about them as writers and as people. Often books are dedicated to children, loved ones, or dogs. On rarer occasions, however, authors use the dedication section of books to make a wry joke, sneer at someone who doubted them, or twist a…
How to take your idea to story
Originally posted on Jean's Writing:
Do you understand how to flesh out your ideas? Not me, I’m still learning. Taking an idea and writing a full novel is not easy, not easy at all. Writing sounds so easy when an idea burst into my mind like fireworks on the 4th of July. But, as…
On Writing With a Purpose
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
by Meg Dowell You likely learned in school that writing an essay begins with defining your target audience and purpose for reaching out to them. We all wrote that essay about whether or not our school should or shouldn’t have uniforms (did schools who already had uniforms still argue this?).…
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