Category: Reference Publisher: Sugar Hill Publishing
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 25
Copyright: January 2004
"The three don'ts of successful fiction."
Possibly the most important little book on the craft of fiction you will read all year.
Thousands of books are written every year but only a small percentage of them get published. Hundreds of books on the craft of creating fiction are available to anyone who is interested, and almost anyone can learn the skills to produce a technically perfect manuscript. To make matters even more confusing, many of the books that do get published… are not technically perfect. So, what's the secret?
Readers are the ultimate judges
of good books.
Whether they are editors making decisions or the reading public, readers are readers no matter what they do for a living.
Readers have standards.
They have certain guidelines that have nothing to do with what kind of book is presented to them, but everything to do with story. Readers – first and foremost – want a good story.
There are too many good stories around to study them all and compare the various elements that make up each one. There are simply too many elements and too many different types of stories. But the popular ones – those stories that everyone likes no matter what the subject matter is – all have certain things in common. And what they have most in common is what they don't do.
Unspoken Rules is book one from the Writer's Toolbox Series available from Sugar Hill Publishing. It may be purchased for a $2 download fee by following the link to D. Ann Graham's home page. Thanks for browsing!
Excerpt
"Writing success is not measured by how many readers step onto your fictional bridge but by whether or not they fall through before reaching the other side.."
