Improving Your Writing Craft: A Self Published, Indie Authors Guide: Wordslinger, #3

By Kevin Tumlinson

"JUST WRITE A GOOD BOOK!"

You hear that advice from authors of every stripe, usually when they're being pressed in an interview to explain their wild, fantastic, almost unimaginable success. How do you become a mega-bestseller with a multi-picture movie deal and adoring fans worldwide?

 

"Well, I... just wrote a good book!"

 

If only it were that easy!

 

Improving Your Writing Craft can't promise you mega-bestseller success, but it can be your quick and easy guide to getting on track and improving the quality of your writing. This short book (read it in about an hour!) presents tips, insights, and tools for upping your writing game. 

In this book you'll learn about:

• Characterization – The personality traits of the characters in your story
• Dialogue – The way your characters communicate
• Point of View – The perspective from which the story is told
• Pacing – the speed the reader feels while reading
• Plot – the cause and effect of your story
• Voice – the style and tone of how you tell your story

And more!

 

START READING IMPROVE YOUR WRITING CRAFT NOW

Kevin Tumlinson is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than fifty novels. He is the host of the popular Wordslinger Podcast—a weekly show featuring interviews with self publishing experts, authors, and influencers. He is also the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for Draft2Digital, and the co-founder of Author.Email and Indie Author Blueprint.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kevin Tumlinson
• Release date: Jul 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393493570

Kevin Tumlinson

Kevin Tumlinson is an award-winning and bestselling novelist, living in Texas and working in random coffee shops, cafés, and hotel lobbies worldwide. His debut thriller, The Coelho Medallion, was a 2016 Shelf Notable Indie award winner. Kevin grew up in Wild Peach, Texas, where he was raised by his grandparents and given a healthy respect for story telling. He often found himself in trouble in school for writing stories instead of doing his actual assignments.  Kevin's love for history, archaeology, and science has been a tremendous source of material for his writing, feeding his fiction and giving him just the excuse he needs to read the next article, biography, or research paper.

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Improving Your Writing Craft

Improving Your Writing Craft

A Self Published, Indie Author’s Guide

Kevin Tumlinson

Wordslinger Press

Copyright © 2020 by Kevin Tumlinson

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Contents

This is a really, really short book

1. We don’t talk much about craft

Writing Craft: A Definition

The Elements of Writing Craft

2. Characterization – The personality traits of the characters in your story

3. Dialogue – The way your characters communicate

4. Point of View – The perspective from which the story is told

5. Pacing – the speed the reader feels while reading

6. Plot – the cause and effect of your story

The Three-Act Structure

The Hero’s Journey

Non-linear storytelling

7. Voice – the style and tone of how you tell your story

8. Readability and Appreciablity

9. Your Target Audience

Create a reader profile

Hang out where they hang out

Join their groups

10. Your Practice

Afterword

About the Author

More Indie Author Guides from Kevin Tumlinson

This is a really, really short book

I do this, from time to time. A short, quick read that (I hope) is packed with useful info. If you bought this book, it’s likely it was pretty cheap. But don’t let that price, and the number of words and pages, fool you.

This may be a really, really short book, but it’s really, really long on useful advice and perspective. And it should add value to your Indie Author Resource Library.

You do have one of those, right?

I hope you enjoy the book, and