How to Write a Bestseller Archive
I have been looking at taglines in the fantasy genres that are closest to my book, particularly at indy authors, to find the common themes. The first thing I notes was that fantasy novels do not put the tagline on …
I have a few ideas for cover images for my book now, so I went back to review the next ideal step in creating my book package: Taglines. Last time around, so much of my planning and writing process was …
This morning, I re-watched a couple sessions from the How to Write a Bestseller Course about book packaging and spent the rest of my time thinking about the title of my series and novel. I liked both the series title …
After working out my series premise and the the premise line for book 1, I analyzed it following the methodology in John Truby’s Anatomy of Story. I looked for what the audience expectations would be, what the potential challenges of …
I’m going back to look at my story from step one – looking at the premise again. My initial premise was probably too complicated, as I was tempted from that stage to stuff more than was reasonable into the story. …
After finishing my primary characters yesterday, I’m starting my plot work today. But at the same time, I’m really struggling with how to do this. I think one of the reasons my last book didn’t work was because I tried …
Today, I finally caught up on my pending transcription editing, plus I got the last few bits of my final character interview complete. In the process, I think I’ve become a bit sympathetic to the primary antagonist for this first …
Today, I sat down to try to start shaping my antagonist, but before I could get to the character profile, I ended up having to do a little geopolitical work. Since this is an epic fantasy, ultimately, the fate of …
Today, I continued describing my hero, including her internal and external conflicts, and also started a character interview. In a previous post, I mentioned how I didn’t know my previous heroes well enough off the page. I knew what they …