The 500 Word Writing Buddy: 25 Inner Secrets For The New Writer
By Alison Morton
Burning to write your novel? And publish it? But don't know where to start?
This book will reveal how to:
- structure your book
- develop your characters
- introduce conflict
- weave setting and plot together
- edit and prepare your manuscript for publication
You'll learn about:
- mainstream and self-publishing
- marketing and selling your book
And about living the writer's life:
- why you write
- your writing place
- interacting with other writers
- the write/life balance
Alison Morton writes the writing and publishing column in The Deux-Sevres Monthly magazine and has published three award-winning alternative history thrillers. She gives talks on writing, self-publishing and historical fiction at writers' conferences, tutorial groups and associations. She has a BA in French, German and Economics and an MA in history and a long history of "scribbling".