America as Paradise? Part of Making A Bestselling Novel?
carriejonesbooks 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…
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How To Write a Book Description That Gets Readers Tingling All Over
Our podcast title is “How To Write a Book Description That Gets Readers Tingling All Over” and that just sounds naughty, doesn’t it? And it is a little naughty because…
Fighting, Commerce, and Ten-Cent Beer: Welcome to America and How to Frame Stories
On last week’s podcast and the one a few before that, and in a post, Shaun and I talked a bit about plot structures and narrative structures and how here…
Pot Plants Invade Wisconsin and Alternate That Plot Structure
Last week, maybe a week ago, maybe 82 years ago, who knows, we talked about alternative plot structures. Much of American film and novels is built on what’s considered to…
How Not to be a Butt-Hole in Real Life and on the Page
So building a sympathetic character on the page is a lot like being a sympathetic character in real life. This sympathetic character is basically the opposite of a butt-hole. There’s…