Quick Guides to Writing Well Set

Get these Quick Guides to quickly move your writing craft and skills forward.

Pivotal Plots

You want to write and write well. Use this quick guide to amplify, intensify, and magnify through plot to craft a compelling story. 

Creative Characters

You want to write and write well. Use this quick guide to craft creative characters that live in the reader's mind beyond the final page of a story. 

Three essentials are common to every compelling story.

1) a character the reader cares about

2) a very great life-changing, world-impacting need the character must achieve

3) a great obstacle between the character we care about and the character's life-changing, world-impacting need.

In Creative Characters, learn how to craft believable, three-dimensional characters that remain in the reader's memory long after the book is read. 

Sensational Settings

Stories happen in a place and that place is the setting. Settings come in four personalities.

The personalities types of setting are

Passive

Active

Like a Character

Is the Story

What does the setting sound like, feel like, and look like? If you plan to write a book or want to improve a story, place the tale in a sensational setting. Sensational Settings: A Quick Guide to Writing Well shows you how.

Dynamic Dialog

Dialog is what characters say. Powerful stories are dialog-driven through carefully chosen word selections. The four purposes of dialog in your story include:

1. Move your story forward

2. Reveal something important about your plot 

3. Show something important about your character

4. Give your character a unique voice

Conversations that take place between characters are often the reader’s favorite part. Add value to your story by writing dialog that is clever, creative, and concise.

Point of View

You want to write and write well. Point of view is the writer's most powerful tool to elicit emotion in the reader. POV can make the difference between a character appearing as a killer or a king. Learn how to pen the proper POV that compels a reader to turn pages until reaching the end.

Paths to Publishing

Writers today have more publishing options than at any point in history, and that abundance can be both exciting and confusing. 

Each option features unique pros, cons, and tradeoffs. Understanding those tradeoffs is essential before making a decision that affects a single book, and potentially an entire writing career. This guide provides the information so you can move forward with your writing goals.