Everything You Want to Know About Writing and More, Much More

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Everything You Want to Know About Writing and More, Much More - 2016 (Post 207)

Everything You Want to Know About Writing and More, Much More is the omnibus edition of a three volume how-to I wrote by updating twelve existing how-tos and combining them with a lot of new material. It's not quite everything, obviously, but it's most of what I've picked up about writing for fun and for profit for forty-seven years. I've been writing how-to books for around ten years now, and since the writing world continually updates itself, so much advice. Even seasoned old stagers need to update, learn, re-shuffle and brush up on their skills, and after all these years I'm still picking up new tips and new experience. Everything is composed of the yellow Book 1, which gives the basics of character, plot, ideas, etc, the blue Book 2 has diverse subjects such as writing verse, picture books, children's books setting, networlding and common problems, while the red Book 3 is more about the authorial life, options, career courses and so on. The green one has the whole shebang in one massive doorstopper of a volume. The print's a tad smaller than it is in the other vols because otherwise the spine would never have stretched to fit.

The table of contents is below, but here's the link to more info and to the BUY ME area.

Introduction                                                                 1
How to Use this Book

Vol One Chapters
Chapter 1: Pre-Writing Plans and Preparations
Chapter 2 Ideas to Go             
Chapter 3 Plots and Plotting    
Chapter 4 Writing with Style         
Chapter 5 Characters and Characterisation
Chapter 6 Confident Conversations: Writing Dialogue  

Vol Two Chapters
Chapter 7  Fantasy (and Historical) Settings               
Chapter 8 Networlding                                                      
Chapter 9 Writing Metrical Verse                                 
Chapter 10 Writing Picture Books & Ten Picture Book Mistakes        
Chapter 11 Non-Fiction        
Chapter 12 Children’s Books        

Vol Three Chapters
Chapter 13  Twenty Top Tips and Unwritten Rules of Writing      
Chapter 14 A-Z of Writing       
Chapter 15  Writing a Manuscript Proposal & What Publishers Want    Chapter 16 Self-Publishing        
Chapter 17   Whoops Words          
Chapter 18   Special Projects
Chapter 19 You: The Author
Chapter 20 Final Words                           

 About the Blog 

Sally is Sally Odgers; author, manuscript assessor, editor, anthologist and reader. She runs http://www.affordablemanuscriptassessments.com and Prints Charming Books. (Sally is me, by the way, and I am lots of other things too, but these are the relevant ones for now.)

The goal for 2017 is to write a post a day profiling the background behind one of my books; how it came to be written, what it's about, and any things of note that happened along the way. If you're an author, an aspiring author, a reader or just someone who enjoys windows into worlds, you might find this fun. The books are not in any special order, but will be assigned approximate dates, and pictures, where they exist. If you enjoyed a post, or want to ask about any of my books or my manuscript assessment service.