Helping Writers Become Authors

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Helping Writers Become Authors provides writers help in summoning inspiration, crafting solid characters, outlining and structuring novels, and polishing prose. Learn how to write a book and edit it into a story agents will buy and readers will love. (Music intro by Kevin MacLeod.)


All Episodes

10 Questions Your Readers Shouldn’t Have to Ask

Make certain your readers aren’t asking the wrong questions at the beginning of your story.

Talent vs. Learning: Do You Have to Be Born a Writer?

Why Do Bad Books Get Published?

One of the most common beefs among writers is that the industry is glutted with bad books.

Are You Writing Your Novel Too Fast?

The Top 25 Ways to Blow a Book

Let’s take a look at the top twenty-five ways we can blow our books right into our readers’ burn barrels.

How to Spot and Fix Non-Reactive and Over-Reactive Characters

Character reaction can be difficult to portray without falling into one of two pitfalls: non-reaction or over-reaction.

The Two Conflict-Creating Needs of Every Character

One need just isn’t going to be strong enough to get a character all the way through a book.

How Routines Save (and Ruin) Your Writing

Nothing affects our writing more than the routine (or lack of one) with which we implement our writing into our day.

Why Self-Conscious Writers Are Doomed

If we don’t stave the vocies of our critics, we’re likely to start writing for them, rather than out of the deep and honest well of ourselves.

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