Ideas

How do you get the ball rolling for your story? How that idea gets to you and you write? Almost every time is just something you see and you need to build from there. It is not all figure out. You may see or know people that get ideas and just start writing. You will …

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Dialogue

You need it. You need dialogue. Or don’t you? I come from a scriptwriting background making dialogue not that important unless it is. There is nothing set in stone on how much dialogue you need for your story. You have to figure it out on what your story needs. You can’t bombard an audience with …

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Book Art

If I’m writing a book, why I need to know about art? I think we have heard the saying never judge a book by its cover. The truth is everybody does it. It is not just the cover, but it is the first impression your work will get to a total unknown. So it will …

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Motivation

Some say motivation is something that you have it or you don’t. That is not completely true. Yes, you need some sort of purpose to do what you do, but sometimes something happens and it pushes you to go after something. That adrenaline rush through your body that gives you some type of energy to …

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World Building

What do you need to create your world? Ask yourself first what is your story about? What time is it? Where is it? Defining questions like these will help you create your unique world and/or recreate what we have at the moment. When you finish you will want to set up your rules for it. …

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ISBN Number

What is and why you need an ISBN number? An ISBN number stands for International  Standard Book Number. It used to be 10 digits now it is 13 numbers since January 2007 because of the growing number of publications. Those numbers are used in a formula to be validated. The 5 elements of the ISBN …

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