If you’re writing a novel its plotting will determine if the book is a success and I’m reminded of an old Russian proverb, “Hope for the best, expect the worst.” Or to put it another way, sometimes it...
By – John Sammon When it comes to creating a character, truth is often stranger than fiction. We’ve been talking about creating characters for your novel that are realistic, full-dimensional fig...
Last week we talked about making the characters in your book compelling and interesting and the most simple way to do this is to have them struggle against something or someone. A character who faces ...
By John Sammon In writing a book boredom is the first deadly sin. To have any chance of getting a publisher to publish your book and then readers to read it, you have to have characters whose actions,...
Theory X, a management style developed by Douglas McGregor a Professor of Management at MIT (a Massachusetts University), in a book in 1960 surmised that “People are inherently lazy, and will avoid re...
It seems that when it comes to writing a book, talk is cheap. Almost everyone would like to be the author of a book….likely including yourself. But actually acting on it and doing it is another matter...
When you decide to write a book it seems to be a choice between simply fiction or nonfiction an either-or choice, but it’s actually more varied than that. The great thing about writing a book is that ...
I am the author of 41 books (available on Amazon.com) and I would like to use this space to give you tips on the profession of writing and how to write and publish a book—for those of you w...