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Stop me if you’ve heard this one – There Are No Rules in Fiction.If you’ve heard this, you are not alone. Unfortunately, that statement should not be taken at face value. There are rules in fiction. A more accurate statement would be – There Are Fewer Rules in Fiction.
Understanding What They’re Talking About When They Say There Are No Rules in Fiction
When someone tells you that there are no rules in fiction, what they mean is that you can use sentence fragments, grammatically incorrect dialogue and punctuation you wouldn’t see in a term paper, thesis or college essay. In other words, you don’t have to write your fiction like you would a school assignment. It doesn’t have to be rigid formal English. Every sentence doesn't need a subject and a verb. In fact, you can have a single word sentence if it makes sense in the context and is understood, but that’s the thing. You’re readers need to be able to understand your fiction, and it needs to be grammatically correct within the context of your book, free of spelling errors and punctuated correctly or reasonably so.
Read more: Dispelling the myth that there are no rules in fiction
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Write Your Novel Notebook
Are you ready to write your novel? Are you looking for a journal or notebook that can help you get it done? If you answered yes, the Write Your Novel Notebook may be the notebook you've been waiting for.
Notebook Highlights
20 Chapters
20 pages per chapter
Add notes and other information at the end of each chapter
Pages to add additional notes at the end of this notebook400+ lined pages for all your fiction writing funThis notebook starts by allowing you to write down the date you started and the date you finished your manuscript, the title of your work in progress, the subtitle and your name. Next, answer a few basic questions, including:
Why are you writing this novel?
Why will this novel appeal to readers?
What genre is this novel?
What is your estimate of the finished word count?
Add any additional notes!!!
On page two, you have space to add 20 main, secondary and supporting characters in 3 columns so that you can easily keep track of them, and you can write down your one-sentence overview and your paragraph overview.
Each Chapter starts with:Chapter 1: and a place to put your chapter title
Date Started
Date finished
Finished Chapter Word Count
Chapter overview
THEN! You'll get 20 pages to write your chapter and a page at the end of each chapter that gives you the space you need to write down the chapter overview and any notes for the subsequent chapter, just in case you have to take an unexpected break from writing.
All in all, this notebook offers more than 400 lined pages to help you write your novel. At 250 words a page, you could write a 100,000 word novel in this notebook.
This notebook is a great companion to The First Five Drafts (SC Writing Book 1)
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How to Self-Publish Your Book: An Indie-Author’s Guide
Have you written a book but don’t know how to take the first steps toward getting published? Relax, this is a common scenario. Many budding authors write books and then don’t know how to get them published. The truth is that there are two ways to publish your book. You can publish traditionally, or you can self-publish. This book is for authors who wish to self-publish. However, traditionally publishing your book shouldn’t cost you any money either because the process involves finding an agent or traditional book publisher and submitting your query letter and possibly other materials to them in the hopes that they read and accept it. If they do accept it, they will perform the final edits, develop a cover and publish the book. You should get an advance, which means you get paid when you traditionally publish. You do not pay anyone any money. If your “traditional” publisher is asking you for money, run. It’s not a traditional publisher. It’s probably a vanity press.
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The First Five Drafts: Prevent Over-Editing and Get Your Novel Done Faster with the Five Draft Method
This is the no-fluff, serious writer's guide to getting your novel started, edited and finished.
The five draft method is designed to help you reduce your chances of over-editing, which can stall your writing process and cause you to either never deem your novel finished or ruin it in any number of ways, including inputting too many slow sections, taking out all the interesting details and doing too much ‘showing’ versus ‘telling’.
In this writer's self-help book, you will learn how to write your first draft and revise your manuscript to the point where it's ready for self-publication or submission to agents and/or publishers.
The Five Draft Method
Draft 1: The Junk Draft
Draft 2: The Structuring Draft
Draft 3: The Rough Draft
Draft 4: The Analytical Draft
Draft 5: Final Draft
Plus! Proofreading for Publication
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