3 Ways to Not Lose Your Readers on Your First Page
Readers will often stop reading before they finish the first page of your story. While this has always been true,…
Tips on How Writers Can Deconstruct to Nail Genre
This month, with the launch of my highly anticipated online course, I’ve been directing your attention to the need to…
Scene Structure: Should Writers Begin Scenes in Omniscient POV?
For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive that tie in with…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Rogue Lawyer
In our weekly look at first pages of best sellers, we’re examining what works and what doesn’t. We’ve covered numerous…
How Novelists Can Benefit from Using Cinematic Scene Structure
We’ve covered a lot of diverse topics in this mulit-month look at scene structure. I mentioned in January how weak…
If You Don’t Learn This Truth, You May Be Missing Out on Big Book Sales
I’m going to share with you the #1 reason I feel novelists—and probably many nonfiction writers—see their books flop instead…
Scene Structure: Cinematic Scene Openings for Novelists
For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive that tie in with…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: The Invention of Wings
Let’s dive into this week’s examination of another best-seller’s first page. In this post we’re examining Sue Monk Kidd’s novel,…
How Writers Can Create Continuity in Showing the Passing of Time
Continuity is so important in a novel. Readers should be able to move from one scene to the next without…