Here's the book writers have been waiting for! Covering every aspect of the creative journey, Living the Writing Life shows readers how to:
*Develop salable ideas
*Turn ideas into stories
*Set a writing schedule and stick to it
*Conduct accurate research
*Dissect best-sellers in order to discover what makes them work
*Develop compelling characters and plot
*Write dialogue that sounds real and engaging
*Find an agent or an editor who will help publish your work
*Put their ideas into story form
*Understand the submission and publishing process
*Promote their work
*Stay alive and inspired through it all
Advice is given in a straightforward and usable manner, laying out and examining all of the tools available to writers, from imagination to technology.
About the Author
Bob Mayer spent 20 years on active and reserve duty in the infantry and Green Berets. He later went on to become a writer and instructor at the JFK Special Warfare Center & School at Fort Bragg. He's published 23 books under his own name and several pen names. His Area 51 series, written as Robert Doherty, are consistent USA Today best sellers. Mayer is also an instructor for the Writer's Digest School.
The Novel Writer's Toolkit: A Guide to Writing Novels and Getting Published,Bob Mayer,Writer's Digest Books,1582972613,Authorship,Composition & Creative Writing - Fiction,Composition & Creative Writing - General,Fiction,Language,Language Arts & Disciplines,Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy,Marketing
Books:
- The Oxford English Grammar
- The Pocket Book of Patriotism
- The Prentice Hall Reader, Seventh Edition
- The Source : A Guidebook of American Genealogy
- The Speaker's Handbook (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Communication Studies)
- The Translator's Handbook, Fifth Revised Edition (Translator's Handbook)
- The Wit & Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin
- The Women's Book of Positive Quotations
- Thomson Advantage Books: Building a Speech (with InfoTrac) (Thomson Advantage Books)
- Visiting College Campuses, 7th Edition (College Admissions Guides)
Books
- Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Masters of Photography)
- Pulp Demons: International Dimensions of the Postwar Anti-Comics Campaign
- Sweet Smell of Success (Faber and Faber Screenplays)
- The Goons: The Story
- Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
- ON DREAMS & DEATH
- Peatland Systems Envir Change
- The Fountain Overflows (New York Review Books Classics)
- Riona (Fires of Gleannmara)
- The Bartender's Best Friend: A Complete Guide to Cocktails, Martinis, and Mixed Drinks
- Super Crafty : Over 75 Amazing How-to Projects!
- Teaching Your Children Responsibility
- The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850
- Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action (Risk, Society, and Policy Series)
- Paddling Southern Wisconsin : 82 Great Trips By Canoe & Kayak (Trails Books Guide)
- German Books: Deutsche Bücher ~ 70
- Sprachen des Politischen. Medien und Medialität in der Geschichte
- Umgang mit elektrischen Anlagen in der Landwirtschaft
- The Essential Guide to Digital Set-Top Boxes and Interactive TV

