By John Sammon In writing a novel (or a nonfiction book) you will use good grammar. In this column I will not be covering that topic or punctuation or any of the most basic skills in writing. I’m assu...
By John Sammon Last week we talked about picking a genre to write a novel and I listed them to include science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, thriller, literary fiction, monster, horror, historic...
By John Sammon In novel writing the principal genres include science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, thriller, literary fiction, monster, horror, historical fiction and westerns. There are others....
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...
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,...
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 ...