Home Kitchen Cooks and Stay at Home Moms know how to read and write. That's why copywriting is so attractive to those who want to stuff more dollars and cents into the family cookie jar. Here are a few writing tips good to know.
Do you want to write a novel, become a famous author or simply make money telling your story? You're not alone. Fiction or non-fiction, millions of people want to write a novel.
Writing a novel isn't difficult. Of course, you need to know how to write good English, some facts about grammar, punctuation and tense. The rules.
You see, there are a few writing styles, and they each have rules. Copywriting, for example, has its own rules, and the first one is forget what you learned in Mrs. Poe's English class.
Selling is a big part of writing words from narrative and descriptive to factual and persuasive.
A novelist tells and sells. Perhaps the theme, the message, the literary conflict between opposing forces causes you take a side. Isn't that selling one thought or another?
In 1927, the English novelist E. M. Forster defined a plot as the cause‐and‐effect relationship between events in a story. Do this, and that happens. That's the established formula for sales.
A novel that's a fictional narrative describes your experiences, lived, imagined or perhaps researched. Even a recognized author must sell the story to the reader. Not the published book, but the story, such as Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Life is your story. How you live life is your narrative. It's a series of chapters. The good, the bad, the traumatic, the glorious moments, the events that spike and peak like the plot in a novel. Life isn't static, neither is a story.
Books will always be in demand. Books teach, show, tell, invite the senses. People want to learn from books, escape, relate, dream, be moved, entertained. Feel something. Shock, aghast, joy, hope, exhilaration, titillation, satisfaction. Characters come to life in stories. They become real. Readers fall in love or hate characters born in stories. People get angry if a writer "kills off" a popular character.
The rewards can humble the shy writer. Recognition. Financial abundance. Fame. In the United States, the Pulitzer Prize has an annual award for achievements in writing. It's administered by Columbia University in New York City. There are twenty-one categories recognizing the work of writers.
The Swedish Academy in Stockholm annually awards the Nobel Prize in Literature to those writers who "shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction ..." It's been awarded 107 times to 109 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2012.
Selling the story is essential, and for success, a writer must follow proven tactics or fail. But you instantly fail if you never write it.
You can be the next Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens. All you have to do is start writing.