Jump Starting Your Inner Novelist is a concise manual that provides inspiration, motivation, and practical tools for crafting award-winning novels.
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Dennis DeRose: A Writer's Manual with a Twist
November 7, 2016
Format: Audible Audiobook
Julius Thompson has written a fantastic manual to help new writers and seasoned writers as well. Every creative individual has, at one time or other, hit their creative rock bottom. This manual may be able to help you hit your high note.
I have known Julius for five plus years and I have edited all of his books. It only made sense for Julius to ask me to co-author Jumpstarting. I have contributed two articles, the importance of good grammar and a few editing do's and don'ts.
This manual is so much more than just a motivational tool.This guide will provide you with a set of tools to help you address issues such as developing captivating scenes, creating vivid, descriptive, specific details, living in the setting, editing, grammar and other crucial elements to help you write a potentially successful novel.
I truly believe that we offer the reader/writer something that few may have taken the time to offer. Purchase your copy today. Feel free to contact us at any time with comments or suggestions. We are here for you!
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Reviewed by Roy T. James for Readers' Favorite
Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist by JE Thompson is a practical guide for writers about creating successful novels.
The author discusses how to choose POV, the setting of the novel, and the stream of consciousness, the ‘thing’ that gives style.
Choosing the protagonist, the antagonist, and other minor characters are discussed next, along with a suggestion to make a resume for each character as it enables the novelist to control the placing of characters.
Deciding on the mode of narration, when to ‘tell’ an event and when to ‘show’ it, and how to form and use subplots come next. The importance of good grammar, as well as the composition of scenes is also discussed by the author. A set of resources to help writers and references to literary agents are given.
I found Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist by JE Thompson a useful book.
Though it didn’t make me a novelist, I now know what questions to ask one. Citing examples of successful novelists, this book reduces the intimidating task of creating a novel into a couple of manageable activities. Plenty of examples are shown, mostly from well known literary works, to illustrate the principles and techniques. A broad outline of a plot is all that is necessary then to begin creating a novel. This book helps in completing all the remaining activities by suggesting a rather disciplined or formal approach.
This is a well written book; and I feel confident to try authoring a novel the moment I am able to think of a reasonably complex plot!
Congratulations on your manual that you have created your journey from sportswriter to novelist. Many times, people that I talk to say that they would like to write novels like I do. For many this is just a pipe dream. Some actually start writing. I know of at least two novelists that I helped edit their books for, gave up after writing the first. I believe a book like yours can be helpful in getting people want to write novels over the hump and actually writing them.
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