Writers' Resource Series

How To Write A Novel ~ This writer's essential resource is the first book to read before you write your bestselling novel!  Why? Each chapter includes the best books for starting your novel, from plot and structure to creating characters with character profiles and templates to writing in different genres.   As an aspiring novelist herself, Paula Wynne has devoured lists of lists of writing books on every subject that covers how to write a bestselling novel.    From the author of the bestselling Pimp My Site, you will find all the writing resources you need to write a powerful plot with compelling characters.  Within the pages of Pimp My Fiction Paula has included writing reference books that offer templates and blueprints to help you to start creating your plot, building your characters and writing your novel.   Don't Just Write A Novel ~ Writing A Bestselling Novel   Writing a bestselling novel is a journey that needs excellent writing technique guides to help you at every stage of creating a page-turning novel. Pimp My Fiction was written to provide aspiring novelists and successful authors with all the writing tools to begin writing a novel.   Pimp My Fiction will show you:    The Craft of Writing: Find out what a bestselling, page-turning novel requires Structure Your Novel: Learn the different story structures and which one may suit your novel         Your First Few Pages: Why it is important to hook your reader from the first sentence         Creating Characters: How to create believable characters that readers will love Character Viewpoint: Which character viewpoint should you use and why Character Templates: Various resources for creating compelling fictional people         Creating Villains: Like heroes, your villains must jump off the page and grab your readers Character Emotions: Why your characters must have an emotional journey along with your readers Writing Dialogue: Why each character should have their own voice and how dialogue shows their personality         Cinematic Settings: Make your settings and scene locations come alive         Sci-Fi, Supernatural and Fantasy: How to write in these fascinating genres         Other Genres: Several other genre resources for getting your novel written, whether your passion is writing thrillers, supernatural and paranormal, fantasy and science fiction or romance, or even children's books, there is something for everyone in this book Writing for Children: Learn how to write for children and young adults Writing a Thriller: It's not only pace that sets your novel alight, find out the secrets to thrill readers Blueprints: Find writing templates and blueprints to get your novel started immediately         Self-Editing: How to use self-editing tips and tricks to hone and tone your novel Dictionaries and Thesauruses: A long list of every kind of dictionary and Thesaurus a writer requires         Digital Dictionaries: Online dictionaries and software tools to lighten the writing load         Writing Tools: Every writer needs a toolkit of different writing aids       This ultimate list of writing fiction technique books will provide you with all the tools you will possibly need. Save yourself eons of time trying to find the right books to improve your writing. This one book will give you all the answers!

Creating real fictional character is one of the most important steps in writing a novel.  When you write a novel, the first thing to learn is how to create fictional characters, from heroes and heroines, to baddies and villains and other minor characters. Without a compelling character you don’t have a story! Whether they will be an animated object, toy or animal, a monster, alien or fantasy fabrication or real human beings, they need to be fully developed with emotions, flaws, hurts and habits or quirks. But even if a writer creates an archetype character, a fictional person from a star sign, or a hero or heroine from the enneagram types, they must end up being a character with personality. You have to give them unique traits and characteristic to make them real and not a walking cardboard. After you've started with a basic character and then added ‘real flesh’ to your character’s bones with different personality traits and emotions, you’ll need to put a lot of thought, research and time into developing a fully-fledged individual. Another way to ensure your characters are like real people is to give them habits and quirks. One of the hardest and most satisfying parts of writing is making your characters fully alive so your readers can recognise them, visualise them, believe in them and care about them. And worry about them so much that they keep turning the pages to see what happens to the character and how they cope with the plots twists thrown at them. Of course, this requires careful use of story events, flashbacks, memories and dialogue. Along with disorders, traits, past hurts and personality flaws, it's also helpful to flesh characters out with distinctive quirks and habits to make them memorable and distinctive. Don’t Just Create A Character ~ Create A Memorable Fictional Person Quirks and habits serve several purposes in fiction. Inside, bestselling author of Pimp My Fiction, Paula Wynne explains a few major uses for character habits and quirks: • Bringing Characters to Life with Quirks and Habits • Identifying Characters • Defining Character • Creating Conflict • Habits and Quirk Shifts As part of the Writers’ Resource Series, the A~Z of Writers's Character Quirks will give you a long list of Behaviours, Foibles, Habits, Mannerisms & Quirks in easy to find alphabetical order to help you create memorable fictional characters.

Don’t Just Write A Scene ~ Create A Memorable Setting Make your novel’s scene settings come alive to your readers with mood, senses, atmosphere and vivid descriptions shown through the point of view of your characters. This book will guide you through choosing settings with mood, atmosphere and sensory details that will influence your characters. In films like Bourne or Bond you see baddies chasing the hero through crowded towns with tight corners and narrow streets or racing across roof tops. In other classic films you may see the most unusual places on earth and wonder how the studios found those places to feature in their films. Clearly they have endless budgets with numerous bodies to scout for locations. But what if there was a resource where writers could dip in and out to find these special types of locations for setting their scenes? Now there is! Inside, bestselling author of Pimp My Fiction, Paula Wynne guides you through: • Creating a novel setting in order to write a vivid scene  • Finding unique locations for different scenarios in your plot • Creating vivid setting descriptions • Weaving them together seamlessly through the character’s actions and reactions • Develop location elements to write realistic, intriguing descriptions from the character’s POV • Using sensory details that bring your setting to life • Layers of details that make a reader feel like they are right there with your character • And you will get a free download copy of the Settings Checklist! Filled with ideas for categories such as crowded towns, tight and narrow streets, adventure locations, places up high and down below, mountains and valleys, seascapes, abandoned places, modern techno, scary and spooky, and unusual work places, homes and fight scenes, 101 Writers’ Scene Settings helps you to dive into the researching and planning your settings so you can write a compelling scene and create a vivid setting that readers won’t forget. It also includes scene setting advice from successful authors: Linda Abbott, Steve Alcorn, James Becker, Glenn Cooper, Mark City, Dean Crawford, Nicole Evelina, Jeff Gerke, CS Lakin, Marti Leimbach, Rayne Hall, Angela Marsons, Allison Maruska, Alex Myers, Jodie Renner, Douglas E. Richards, Joyce Schneider, Kevin Wignall and Vincent Zandri.