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E-book Title: Six Tips to Turn Your Good Writing into Great Writing
Author: Esther Susan Heller
Book Description: Do you love to write? Do you think you're a good writer?
A new idea hits you. You feel excited about it. And you know it would make a great story or book. You can just feel it.
But many people have great ideas and want to write about them. Most people never will. Some will get off to a big, exciting start and then will quit midway. Only a few will see their writing dreams fulfilled in the end.
Sure writing takes creativity, imagination and talent. And it also takes determination. But it takes something else that often gets overlooked: Writing Technique.
Would you learn to play the piano without a sheet of music to follow? Would you build shelves without a hammer and nails?
Somehow when it comes to writing, people assume they can do it on their own. Maybe it's because we all did learn how to write in our high school English classes. To write on a professional level and get published- that takes the right tools.
There are many excellent technique books available.
Reading a technique book will not help you improve your writing anymore than reading a sheet of music will help you play the piano!
You need to learn the best writing tools and then immediately put them into practice. Otherwise what you read won't stay with you.
Sure you're a good writer. But you also know you could get better. And writers that are serious about their craft want to be the best writers they can. The writers that stick with it want to be great writers. They won't settle for anything less.
I've been helping good writers become great writers for over 16 years. I've done this by zeroing in on the essential writing techniques writers need to improve their writing. Through explanation and example I've taught the most important elements of great writing. I make sure that writers immediately apply what they've learned by working on specially tailored writing exercises. The exercises break challenging writing tasks down into basic steps that make them much easier to tackle. When writers look at what they've written, they are amazed.
How did I get started helping good writers become great?
It all started with one student-myself.
I always loved writing and my English teachers always told me I was a good writer. But that wasn't enough to get my work published in the markets I wanted to be published in. I started reading all the writing technique books I could find.
I read, I learned, and most of all I practiced and soon I was getting published. Magazine editors were writing me and asking me to write articles for them. By this point I was already teaching writing courses, leading writing workshops and teaching at conferences. I was coaching and editing writers. This was all done by word of mouth. I never advertised. One writer would tell another how much I had helped her and then ask to work with me...
Writers were always telling me how much my guidance and exercises helped them become better writers and get published. They urged me to compile my techniques into a book so that other writers would benefit as they had.
Yes, there are many excellent writing technique books out there. And I've read most of them. I have combed through thousands of pages of excellent writing advice, so now I can give you the best of the best. You won't find this combination along with my tested and proven writing techniques anywhere else.
If you want to really succeed as a writer you need to get writing as quickly as possible, and not get bogged down reading, no matter how excellent a read it is.
"Six Ways toTurn Good Writing into Great Writing" was conceived, developed, refined and tailored over the course of sixteen years.
It will help writers of fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir and autobiography bring their writing to a higher level.
So what's inside?
- Six important tools for writers to master
- Ways to break down sophisticated writing tools into manageable steps
- Page One: 4 things you must do on the very First Page
- How to Build Compelling Characters
- Plot: Common Mistakes and Problems
- Creating a Setting your Characters can Live with
- How to Show instead of Tell
- The Hidden Thread of Theme that should run through your writing
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
How to Use This Book 4
Chapter 1: First Impressions: The First Page 5
What should Page One do? 5
Intellectual Promise 6
Emotional Promise 7
Hooks and Leads 7
Get Right to the point 8
Delving Deeper: 9
Let's Start Writing 9
Chapter 2. Building your Characters 11
Authentic 11
Captivating 11
Engaging 11
Delving Deeper: Contradiction 12
Let's Start Writing 12
Delving Deeper: A Few Words about Dialogue 14
Revealing Character through Dialogue 15
Let's Start Writing: 16
Chapter Three: Plot 17
Obstacles and Complications 18
A Common Mistake that Writers Make: 18
Playing with Plot: 19
Let's Start Writing 19
Having Trouble Coming Up With a Plot? 21
Crisis and Turning Point 21
Resolution 22
Let's Start Writing 22
Chapter Four: Creating a Setting 23
Credibility 23
Atmosphere 23
The Use of Setting has Changed 23
What does setting include? 24
Consistency 24
Using Setting to Establish Atmosphere 25
Setting and Point of View 25
Delving deeper: Beware of clichés 26
Let's Start Writing 26
Chapter Five: Show, Don't Tell 28
Specific 28
Believable 29
How to find believable details you can use 29
Significant 30
Outtakes 31
Let's Start Writing 32
Chapter Six: Theme, The Hidden Structure 33
What is Theme? 33
The Difference between Theme and Topic 33
Finding Your Theme 33
Why Does Theme Matter? 34
Starting with a Theme. 35
How to Work with Theme: 35
Delving Deeper 37
Investigate your Theme 37
Let's Start Writing 38
Conclusion 39
About the Author 39
Recommended Reading: 39
Appendix I: Describing Setting 40
Appendix II: Developing a Writing Project 41
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