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10/22/2017

Joseph Nassise

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The STORY ENGINES course is now open!

If you missed the story clinic webinar yesterday - The 7 Step Process to Write Better Books Faster, Boost Sales, and Build a Raving Readership - you can catch the replay right here:

http://www.yourfirst10kreaders.com/story-engines-webinar-replay-jan17

The webinar has well over an hour of direct teaching, a sneak peek at the Story Engines course, cool bonuses for those who take action before the end of today, and a live Q&A session where Nick and I tred to answer as many questions as we could! 2 1/2 hours of content here!

Here are some the course-specific questions we've received...

Q: How is this different from Nick's 10k Readers course?

A: 10k Readers is 95% focused on MARKETING and AUDIENCE BUILDING. Story Engines is designed to dramatically increase your writing speed and the quality of your drafts, so you can publish more frequently while improving quality (and having more fun). Both courses are geared to help you make more sales, but the focus is entirely different.

Q: I've only just started with the 10k Readers course - should I join Story Engines?

A: I would recommend focusing on the work you have right now - the last thing I want is for you to get overwhelmed. Leave a comment here or email me at [email protected] if you need specific advice (yes, we do / have / will turn people away if we think it's not right for them).

Q: I want to join, but I can't start working on it until next month / later. Will it be open again?

A: The course will close down completely on Friday 27th. If you'd like to join and start work on it at a later date, we can move your "start date" and get your 30 day guarantee running from a date in the future. Just email [email protected] to arrange this (that way you can start later and still get 30 days to test drive it).

Q: Does this work for Romance / Thrillers / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Memoirs / INSERT GENRE HERE?

A: Story Engines is NOT genre specific. Even though certain genres have certain tropes and reader expectations, the underlying framework and engineering is the same. Any type of fiction or NARRATIVE non-fiction will be a good fit.

There are more Q&A's on the enrollment page and in the webinar replay right here: http://www.yourfirst10kreaders.com/story-engines-webinar-replay-jan17

This course isn't for everyone, and that's 100% on purpose. And if you'd prefer to use the teaching in the webinar and go the DIY route, that's fine too. We want to make sure you have options, after all :)

Any questions at all, drop them in the comments. And if you've signed up already, please leave a shout out!

In the meantime, enjoy the webinar!

10/18/2017

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10/17/2017

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05/15/2017

Give each character, and yourself, the narrator, his or her own voice. Make them memorable. This is lesson 6 of your novel-writing class.

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05/08/2017

Who are YOU?
When you write a book, the real you must show. You are unique. God made you specially. Of all the people on the planet, you’re the only you. Even if you’re an atheist and don’t believe God made you, nothing can remove that fact. You exist for a purpose, and what you say is important. That person is who we meet when you write your book.
This uniqueness of person is what we call “voice.” Your responses to everything that happened to you formed that voice. All your failures, all your love, hatreds, successes, serendipitous moments, excesses, times of want and times of abundance created that voice in you. No one can write your book for you because you are so unique.
Why is this important?
If you were writing a research paper, you would provide names, dates, ages, facts, maybe even whether George Washington’s soldiers walked barefoot through the snow, leaving a trail of blood behind them. But those facts don’t make your novel. Your story is far more than the facts of what she did next, or what he did after that. Your story is full of responses, not facts. The best one to understand and share those responses, is you.
Did you know that every single person will respond to the same stimulus differently?
Some will take everything, or almost everything, in stride. Some will rebel against it. Some will own it and make it a part of their lives. Some will act out against it. Some will encourage a similar stimulus in others. How you say what happened and how people responded is your voice.
This nebulous term is hard to define, and much easier to see. If I write a romance, it will look nothing like Danielle Steele’s book, even if we covered the same story line. No one can discount her success, yet her books are filled with repetitions. She takes chapters to cover one subject, and then returns to the same subject later in the book. If Stephen King were to write the same book, he’d describe each character so meticulously that you would never have any doubt who spoke, even if he refused to identify the speaker.
Be yourself when you write. Your uniqueness gives your stories your voice. Don’t just provide readers the facts. Your stories provide readers your take on the world around you, the same world as the rest of us inhabit, but with scents, sights and flavors only you can provide.
To explore your voice, write two short stories, the same story from opposite viewpoints. Then look for you between the lines. Even when another person is acting and reacting, the one describing it is you. No one can do that for you.

05/01/2017

Point of View – Who is Speaking, Thinking, Doing?
The way we see our lives is from a first-person point of view. I’m constructing classes on how to write well. Most books use the third-person pov (point of view). It’s the most natural way to write. Notice I didn’t say it was the easiest. In my opinion, the easiest way to construct a story is from an omniscient (the overlord overview, the one who knows everything) presented in the third-person (he/she did this or that).
Stephen King starts his stories from the “I – guy” point of view. He puts himself in the place of the character, and often tells the reader everything he can think of about this person. That’s one reason his books are so long. Each person has a say.
But he doesn’t write the book from the “I – guy” point of view. Once he has explored everything he can imagine about the guy, he writes from the third person.
Example (my example, not King’s): Desperate, John went to the story to buy a pack of ci******es. He’d promised his wife to quit smoking, but after three days the ache in his chest niggled at him. Even his skin itched. Guilt stabbed at him. But as he slapped his bills on the counter, a rage of defiance replaced the guilt. Who was she to determine what he could or couldn’t do?
From the first-person viewpoint, I’d be the desperate one. I would feel guilt for reneging on my promise. I’d feel the ache in my chest and the itch in my skin. I’d flip from guilt to defiance as I slammed my bills on the counter of the store, furious that another wanted to control my actions.
So which one do you use?
The answer to that is as personal as your book. Some always write from the first person. Some always write from the third. Some entitle each chapter with whoever moves the story. Blake gets one chapter. Then Summer gets the next, back and forth until the conclusion.
The advantages of writing in the first person is that whatever happens goes on right now, or should. This is the power in this pov. Too much reflection will steal this power.
Actually, too much reflection steals the power of the plot, no matter the pov. Be judicious. Dish out reflection in bits and pieces.
How to Use Point of View
Beginning authors, believing that the omniscient point of view, where the author knows everything that everyone is thinking, feeling and doing, often put all their knowledge into every paragraph. Sally loves Henry in one sentence. Henry loves Rose in the next. Rose, far more interested in her career, loves no one but herself.
This confuses the reader. Change pov at your peril. Find one person and stick with him or her, especially if you’re a beginning author.
Yes, there are wonderful exceptions, and this is how you do it, even as a beginning author. Each chapter can be from one person, and the next chapter, you get in the life of another. Stephen King, Dean Koontz and a host of others do this. If you must change pov in the middle of a chapter, make a break to move the plot along.
Remember, everything you do in your story must have a reason. You aren’t just writing words that reach a conclusion, you’re unfolding a plot, word by word, phrase by phrase, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, person by person, dialogue by dialogue, scene by scene, and chapter by chapter. Let the reader know that something is happening by using a break, an extra space between what you just wrote and what you’re writing now. You’re announcing a change, either a change of scene, pov, time disruption, something.
What About the Second Person?
I’ve only seen this viewpoint used successfully once. The book takes place in Russia, just after the Communist takeover. The main character, a fisherman, rises through the ranks, commanding a fishing fleet. The book, entitled Final Respects by Abdi-Jamil Nurpeisov and Catherine Fitzpatrick, is written entirely in the second person. You become the main character, Jadiger.
From my review: “You are Jadiger. You have lived your whole life in central Asia on the shores of the Aral Sea. You even went to college to make a better life for yourself and your fishing clans. But the sea is dying. Although you are a bureaucrat, and you could supervise the fishing clans from your desk, you struggle alongside your fishing companions in the collective farm to bring in the fish. But the sea is shrinking, and becoming saltier, and the fish catches are dwindling at an alarming rate.”
I found the story very well done, and very rare. No one else, to my knowledge, has ever written successfully in the second person.
Now it’s time for your assignment. Write two scenes, one from the “I -guy” and the same scene using one of the characters as your speaker, thinker, doer.
As always, if you want feedback, you only need to contact me.
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04/10/2017

Do You Know Your Characters?

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03/28/2017

Sendlane

New project: Flight Into Fiction writing course. You already know you love to write, but you doubt your skill. This course will teach you what you need to know. I will walk you through the course myself. Very limited enrollment. https://quillandink.sendlane.com/view/flight-into-fiction

03/16/2017

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03/15/2017

How do you please God? Love God and love others. Yep. It's just that simple.

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02/02/2017

Book Reviews :: Patricia-renard-scholes

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While her father works on a cure for the killer virus, he, Elaan and her brother live in the same, safe, underground bunker. People are dying on the outside, but the families inside the bunker have enough food to last for years.

01/19/2017

Introducing, Nicole Benoit-Roy

Introducing - Nicole Benoit-Roy

Nicole Benoit-Roy has a dual Master's Degree in Early Childhood and Special Education and received the 2012 Sharp Writ Book Award for her first book in the series, Jesus Loves Everybody: Especially Me. Her love for teaching Early Childhood Literacy and witnessing for Jesus inspired her to do just th...

01/05/2017

Common Writing Mistakes

Common Writing Mistakes courtesy of www.quill-and-ink.webnode.com

I specialize in indie authors, when these mistakes are part of the independent publishing scene, it hurts all of us who self-publish.

12/29/2016

What's your big dream? Mine is to help Indie Authors produce works that will SHINE!

12/28/2016

The following is my brother's rant. My question is: Where do you stand with the Creator of the universe? Hint: Living a good life is NOT the answer.

Begin Rant:
I picked up my iPad a little while ago and see fb exploding with Carrie Fisher's sudden leaving of this earth. Many posts make comments about "the Force" being with her. People, this is a serious issue. I do not claim to know the relationship between Miss Fisher and the Creator of the universe, but I do know what Scripture says about what happens when we die. Miss Fisher's death is a reality check for ALL of us. Do you know where you stand when it comes to who Jesus is to you?
End Rant!

12/13/2016

For those of you who are still thinking about my FREE editing offer, I have one slot left.

12/04/2016

Vicky

Amen

12/03/2016

Anthony Hamilton

Saw this & had to share.

11/17/2016

Quill & Ink is a Developmental Writing service. Those of you who know me, know that I am an award-winning writer whose books have received 5-star ratings. I want to pass my knowledge on to you.

Quill & Ink mission:

I want to make "Indie Author" no longer a synonym for sloppy writing. Not only will I correct spelling, punctuation and grammar issues, but I will also WORK WITH YOU to dramatize your plot, set up (foreshadow) your actions, develop your characters, use better dialogue, make unforgettable scenes, and much more.

If you are an Indie Author, I will only charge $.02 per word on your fiction short story, novella, or novel.

No matter how good you are, you still need an editor. Even Stephen King has an editor. I do everything an editor does in addition to helping you develop a dynamite manuscript.

By the way, I can also show you how to publish on CreateSpace, the FREE publishing service of Amazon.com, a service I provide for free to those who sign on with me.

Your name is at stake. Be the best.

God's blessings to you,

Patricia Renard Scholes

11/17/2016

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