Author and writing coach Becca Puglisi shares tips and tools to help you write believable characters that your readers will love.
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How to Write Realistic Characters with Becca Puglisi
Author and writing coach Becca Puglisi shares tips and tools to help you write believable characters that your readers will love.www.NovelMarketingConference.com Support the show
G Is for Great
“There are a lot of good manuscripts out there. What we want are those which are great.” I’ve said this many times but thought I should elaborate. Please note the following information applies mostly to nonfiction projects. When it comes to the nonfiction books that attract major publishers, I believe the author must have at least two of three “great” things: Great Concept Great Writing Great …
Fun Fridays – August 5, 2022
I may have shown today’s video to you before, but it still thrills me to watch it again. This young prodigy is given four random notes, drawn from a hat, and improvises an entire piece in about a minute. Amazing. Can you, as a writer, take four words and improvise a story in one minute? “See the ball bounce.” Now go write something beautiful!
Theology for Writers
Spoiler alert: God’s nature never changes. His truth is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. While Christian writers seek to write in a compelling, engaging manner, seeking to pull readers through their books from paragraph to paragraph and page after page, the foundational theology of which they write never changes. You might write about the need for someone to make Jesus the Lord of their …
Mysteries of the English Language
I love the English language. It’s been very good to me. But it can be a booger too. For example, you know that a slim chance and a fat chance are the same, right? And a wise man and a wise guy don’t mean the same thing? It’s a crazy language. And those who must learn it as a second language face many strange twists and turns—as do those of us who try to speak and write with something resembling …
4 Questions a Fiction Proposal Must Answer
Last week we dealt with five questions a nonfiction proposal must answer. As promised, we now turn to those who are putting together a novel proposal. If you compare these two posts, you’ll see why a one-size-fits-all proposal template isn’t always helpful. There are differences between the two types of proposals. Please try not to shoehorn a novel proposal into a nonfiction presentation. What Is …
Fun Fridays – July 29, 2022
The brilliant Tom Lehrer wrote this song where the lyrics are from the “Elements” in the Periodic Table. Today’s video shows him performing it live in Copenhagen in 1967. Amazing. Be sure to wait to see what he does after the applause! By the way, he was a math professor at MIT, Harvard, Wellesley, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Read about him on this Wikipedia …
The Power of Discernment
Some years ago, I overheard a clerk in a religious bookstore say to a customer, “These ideas are dangerous!” While I appreciate efforts to guide readers to helpful books, I don’t believe we as readers should live in fear of ideas. For instance, if I were gullible enough to agree with everything I read and see, I might be: Ingesting pills that supposedly contain vegetables and …
5 Questions a NonFiction Proposal Must Answer
All novelists will have to wait until next week’s blog which will address fiction proposals. Today’s topic is nonfiction. What is the Big Idea? Trying to find something unique and never before addressed in book form is nearly impossible. But each proposal needs to be clear what the book is about. You’d be amazed how many proposals I’ve seen where they try to hide the “pay-off.” If the book is …