Be a Successful Writer in a Nutshell - 100+ Writing Tips: Be a Writer

By Ann Evans

Be a Successful Writer - in a Nutshell. 100+ Writing Tips. This little book is packed with almost 200 creative writing tips that will help you with your writing.

These great writing tips have been categorized into their own chapters. So you can browse for advice on many writing aspects, such as: creating characters, writing narrative, plotting and planning, editing, writing the synopsis, and many more topics.

This is an inspirational little book, crammed with thought-provoking writing tips that award-winning author and feature writer, Ann Evans uses on a daily basis.

Ann Evans has been writing for publication for 30 years. She has around 40 books published - the genres include children's books, middle grade, YA, reluctant readers, adult thrillers and adult romance (pen name Ann Carroll).

Be a Successful Writer - in a Nutshell is the perfect little book to dip in and out of when you need guidance and help with your writing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Words & Images UK
• Release date: Aug 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201365035

Ann Evans

Coventry-born writer, English Ann Evans began writing as a hobby more than 30 years ago. It was a hobby that became a career and a way of life. She became a professional, multi-published, award-winning writer, learning the craft whilst bringing up her family. After ‘sneaking in the back door’ of her local newspaper, The Coventry Telegraph as a grassroots reporter, she went on to become a staff feature writer there for 13 years. To date she has published around 40 books, the genres being:  children’s and young adult fiction and non-fiction; reluctant reader books; adult crime/thriller, romance (Pen name Ann Carroll) and non-fiction. She also writes short stories and has had around 2,000 magazine articles published on a wide range of topics such as: food, drink, gardening, animals, health, fitness, business, celebrities, antiques, collectors and more. Her non-fiction writing really took off after teaming up with photographer Rob Tysall – Pro Photography. Together they are Words and Images UK and write regularly for a number of national and international, print and digital magazines. Writing has taken Ann all around the UK and to parts of Europe. Additionally, some of her books have been published in other languages including French, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Japanese and Thai.  Ann says: “My journey to becoming a successful, published writer has been through trial, error and perseverance over many years. But also, through the help, support and encouragement of family and friends, and some excellent editors and agents who I’ve been fortunate enough to work with. “I love helping others who are keen to write and hope my books on writing will help other writers on their journey. As for my fiction books, I hope you love them and come back for more - check out my children's books too. Thank you for buying my books and please do leave a review.”                            Ann Evans

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BE A

SUCCESSFUL

WRITER

In a nutshell

100+ Writing Tips

By

ANN EVANS

BE A SUCCESSFUL WRITER –

IN A NUTSHELL.

100+ WRITING TIPS

Text copyright © Ann Evans 2022.

All Rights reserved.

The right of Ann Evans to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All Rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission in writing from the author or publisher.

While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the contents of this book, the author or publishers cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions found therein.

Published by

Words & Images UK

Kindle version 

Dedicated to budding writers everywhere.

May your dreams come true.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

BACK TO BASICS

THAT LIGHTBULB MOMENT!

NARRATIVE

CREATING CHARACTERS

WRITING BELIEVABLE DIALOGUE

VIEWPOINT

DON’T LOSE THE PLOT

CONFLICT

SHOW DON’T TELL

DID YOU KNOW

FLASHBACKS AND TRANSITIONS

CHANGING THE MOOD

BE ORGANISED

WRITE THAT NOVEL

DID YOU KNOW

WRITING THE SYNOPSIS

REVISING AND POLISHING

GETTING PUBLISHED

DID YOU KNOW

HANDLING REJECTION

FOLLOWING UP SUCCESSES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

USEFUL LINKS

BOOKS BY ANN EVANS

GET IN TOUCH

HAVE YOU READ...

INTRODUCTION

I HOPE YOU ENJOY BROWSING this copy of Be a Successful Writer – in a nutshell. 100+ Writing Tips, which are practiced by myself whenever I sit down to write. Which is every day!

To date I have around 40 books traditionally published, somewhere around 2,000 articles published in a wide variety of online and print magazines – I stopped counting a few years ago! Plus, short stories published, some awards won and various other literary achievements. Also 13 years as a feature writer on a daily regional newspaper all adds up to a mountain of experience that I want to share with other writers.

As writers we never stop learning. Discovering a little gem of advice that you hadn’t thought of before is like gold dust.

This isn’t a case of ‘do what I say, not what I do.’ This is a case of getting these tips to become second nature. Do that and you’ll be heading for writing success.

I can’t claim credit for thinking up every single one of these tips. Lots have been learned from other writers and editors, as well as from books, magazines, seminars, conferences, and my years as a feature writer. But I’ve put them into practice and discovered they make good sense.

So, wishing you every success in your writing ambitions.

Happy browsing – and happy writing!

Ann Evans

BACK TO BASICS

WHILE THE WORLD REALLY is your oyster regarding what you want to write, there are some fundamental basic ‘rules’ to writing that always apply. Disregard these basics and you’ll be forever re-writing and forever being rejected.

Writing is a craft that you can learn, so strive to get that solid foundation behind you so that you can build upon it. My advice is to start small and work upwards, learning as you go. I don’t advocate using old cliches, but here’s