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1 day ago · THINK ABOUT THIS AS YOU WRITE YOUR SERIES. 4.Focus on a Single Series and Genre. Do this from the beginning. Have a single series — clearly branded — publish in that one series for a few books before you start another series. Start with a single author name and single strategy — or it will be difficult to manage it all.
4 days ago · Billy Wilder, one of the greats in screenwriting and directing, gave this piece of advice: “Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.”. You need to trust your audience to successfully pull off subtext. You need to have faith that they’ll connect the dots of your plot.
5 days ago · 7. Create Tension and Conflict. Crafting compelling characters in horror and thriller fiction means creating tension and conflict between them. This could involve a dangerous disagreement that threatens to cause chaos or a personal grudge that might resurface when the stakes are highest.
Do a search for the best detective novels and then read them. "I want to try to write a 1950s heavily inspired La Noire novel with two detectives figuring out the strange murder/missing people cases". Type in 1950s noire detective stories into whatever search engine you have and read those stories. " (insp Sherlock Holmes 2010".
5 days ago · While there are certainly successful groups and series of novels in the historical fiction genre–think Philippa Gregory or Ken Follett–these tend to be the exception rather than the rule. If I wrote a series about Kate Warne, it would shift more into the detective/crime genre vs. biographical historical fiction.
4 days ago · Jump to: STEP ONE: Figure out what you want to write. STEP TWO: Make time to write. STEP THREE: Find your writing method. STEP FOUR: Forget about perfection. STEP FIVE: Keep going (even when the going gets tough) STEP SIX: Find writing buddies. How to get your book published.
