It’s important to have a space set aside in your home for writing. It can be a big cushion in a corner of your closet with a notebook and pen, if that’s all you have room for, or perhaps the back seat of your car because that’s the only place you can get some peace [...]

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You’ve cleared the first hurdle in commercial publishing. Whether through an agent or your own submission, the editor is interested in your book proposal (a package that included your proposal, one or two sample chapters, and your biography). The next step in this delicate dance is the Reader Report: a market feedback tool used by [...]

Once your book hits bookstore shelves, you’ve got approximately eight months to produce sales. If your book doesn’t prove itself after the eight months, it will almost certainly get pulled. So the time to do your marketing is way before your book even thinks about hitting the shelves.
Thousands of booksellers and librarians found their buying [...]

Are you an online article writer? Have you noticed that often people will approach you and attempt to recruit you to write for them so they can make money? Well as an online hobbyist writer I have been approached many times and these recruiters always play the same psychological games and it irks me. Let [...]

[From our deconstruction of hundreds of Hollywood blockbusters and sitcoms at www.clickok.co.uk and our isolation and identification of more than 188 stages of the Hero's Journey that you need to know about...]
The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of [...]

Once you’ve selected the writer you consider most suitable to handle your book or software project, it’s important you set out very clearly exactly what you expect — always keeping in mind what the writer wants from the experience. Ideally, you should both come away from the project having enjoyed a win-win situation you would [...]

Everybody knows writing a story is not easy. Like the drama or the poem, it is imaginative literature that should appeal to the emotions of the readers. Since it communicates the writer’s interpretation of reality, there must be an artistic use of language to signify human experience. But how do we write a great short [...]

How can you maximize the business potential of giving a speech? Rainmakers don’t simply rely on someone in the audience happening to call them. By the same token we don’t want to waste a lot of time with people who are unlikely to ever purchase our services and just happen to be at the meeting [...]

This is a typical question that I receive from many new students and website visitors. My answer is clear and simple: “indeed.” Grammar is the backbone of a language and without it any single thing you know may be flux, in a sort of jelly without much consistency. In a nutshell, grammar provides you with [...]

Writing articles is hard for me! Some people have the talent to put pen-to-paper, and pontificate. Blah, blah, blah… This isn’t the case for me. I struggle with every sentence. How can they just assemble paragraphs together and create an article? I wish I knew.
I’m trying desperately to learn what it takes to become an [...]