Some features of the top selling novels
carriejonesbooks Dogs are Smarter Than People There’s an old NPR article about writing bestsellers that quotes critic Ruth Franklin’s overview of American best-sellers as saying “No possible generalization can be made…
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America as Paradise? Part of Making A Bestselling Novel?
We’ve started a series of paid and free posts about writing bestsellers. Our first post about this is here. In James Hall’s book, HIT LIT, he looks at twelve top-selling…
Tick…Tick…Tick…Using Time to Make a Hit Novel
So, last week was Shaun’s birthday. Yay, Shaun! We’ve started a series of paid and free posts about writing bestsellers. Our first post about this is here. And today, we’re…
The Absolutely Simplest Plot Structure Ever
A lot of the writers I teach get really freaked out about structure. They go on multiple craft book journeys trying to find the structure that resonates with them, the…
What Do Readers Want and the Kentucky Meat Shower Incident
Readers want questions that they’ll get answers to. They want to be hooked along. They want to unwrap the answer the way people unwrap a birthday present. That’s what Robert…