Forgotten Bestseller Secrets - Keep 'Em Reading: Table of Contents
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Forgotten Bestseller Secrets - Keep 'Em Reading: Foreword
In 1938, Oklahoma's first Rhodes scholar started a very unique and successful university course for writers. His name was Walter S. Campbell.
Forgotten Bestseller Secrets 01
READING TO WRITE. Any masters' works give all the secrets to writing craft you may want. It just takes a new viewpoint to extract them...
Keep 'Em Reading 03 - Overall Pattern
ALL POLISHED WRITING demonstrates an over-all pattern. As Aristotle tells us, it must have: a Beginning, a Middle, and an End. Each of these three sections sparks a particular type of interest and possesses a specific quality. Each also has its own specific problems:
Forgotten Bestseller Secrets - Keep 'Em Reading: Lesson 04
As we’ve seen, the reader wants to be transported from the first paragraph, sentence and word they read. You’ve already gotten them to read because of your title, your subheading, and perhaps (in printed books) your cover or blurb. Now, you must deliver the goods.
Forgotten Bestseller Secrets 05
The reason scenes are the building blocks of all stories is seldom told. Because most writers only sense a good scene, but never studied its framework.
Forgotten Bestseller Secrets 06
FOR ANY FICTION OR NON-FICTION WORK, there is any needed research and organization. This is, perhaps, seem the struggle between “plotters” and “pantsers”. Regardless of how much organization the plotter does, he doesn’t always wind up with fresh copy flowing like a warm Spring wind over the wintry fields. And the untrained writer who relies on sheer inspired word-smithing may see all his freshest work wash up on some publisher’s shore, unpublished and useless.
Forgotten Bestseller Secrets 08
Nobody can do your writing for you. You must do it yourself. This fact is both the joy and the despair of beginners the world over.
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