How to Write a Book by Geoff Palmer

How to Write a Book by Geoff Palmer

I want to write a book. Where do I start?

Are you thinking of writing a novel or a nonfiction book but aren't sure where to begin? Perhaps you've heard of the Snowflake Method, the 30-Day Method, the 5-Draft Method, outlining, plotters and pantsers, but are just having trouble fitting writing into your life.

This is the writing guide to get you going

Maybe you've already started a book - once, twice, several times - yet somehow drifted away, lost focus, lost momentum, and ended up dumping your manuscript in the too-hard basket.

This is the writing guide to get you back on track

12 simple steps to becoming an author

Divided into three easy stages, How to Write a Book has 12 simple steps that take you through the process of writing from start to finish.

Part 1: Getting Started explores the tricks of the mind that stand in the way of a would-be writer. From finding the time, to dealing with distractions, battling Resistance, what to do when your mind's a blank, and even writing with a tomato

Part 2: Keeping Going. Most novels are abandoned one-third of the way in. Find out why. And find out what you can do when you hit The Wall, strike writer's block, or are trapped in the tyranny of constant changes.

Part 3: Letting Go. The tricks of the mind don't stop once you type THE END. This part looks at the quest for perfection (and how to handle it), dealing with rejections, and what to do once you think you're done.

Bonus chapter: A special bonus chapter deals with what you should write, the business of writing, being a guinea pig, doing a Nanowrimo (write a novel in a month), the three Ps (Practice, Productivity and Professionalism), and what being a successful writer really means.

Write the novel you've always dreamed of writing. Start today
Excerpt from the Introduction

On 1 September 1995, Jim Grant sat down to write. He'd never written a novel before and, having just been made redundant from his job at Granada Television, reckoned he'd have to earn himself a laptop. So he went out and bought three pads of paper, a pencil, a pencil-sharpener and an eraser, investing the princely sum of 3.99 in his new vocation. Then settled down to work. Long-hand.

The book he wrote - called Killing Floor - earned Grant a laptop all right, and a great deal more. It, and his subsequent books, have regularly topped the bestseller charts for the last twenty years. But you probably don't recognise his name. That's because Grant writes under the pseudonym Lee Child.

My aim in opening with that story wasn't to add to the mythology of Jim Grant/Lee Child, or to help him sell more books. (He seems to be doing okay without my assistance.) What I wanted to emphasise was the writer's basic tools:

• pads of paper
  
• a pencil
  
• a pencil-sharpener
  
• an eraser
  

That, really, is all you need. And it's all writers have needed for centuries.

You don't need a new laptop with terabytes of disk space and monitor large enough to be seen from the Moon. All you need is 3.99's worth of supplies. (About $5 in the US.)

If you have a typewriter, great. A computer's even better. But neither of those things are essential. All you really need is some method of recording your thoughts. A pencil and paper work fine. Just ask Lee Child.

Telling Stories was Geoff Palmer's first published novel. The manuscript won the 1995 North & South/Reed Fiction Award, and was published in 1996. It received some great reviews from a number of prestigious publications. Unfortunately, the book was out of print before the last of those reviews appeared, and it has remained so-at least until this edition. Geoff is probably best known as a blogger and freelance contributor to New Zealand PC World, a role held for eighteen years. In that time he won four Qantas Media Awards for his columns-not bad for a non-journalist IT guy. His second novel, Too Many Zeros, the first part of a young adult adventure/sci-fi series, was published by Penguin in 2011. Penguin declined the second part in the series and promptly merged with Random House.* When the book went out of print in late 2013, Geoff reclaimed his rights, dusted off the second part-Lair of the Sentinels-along with his notes for the remaining three books, and set about finding a new publisher. This one. All five books will be available from Podsnap Publishing by early 2016. In addition to finishing off that series, Geoff is also working on a number of other projects. Private Viewing, a rollicking romantic suspense novel will be released in July 2015, and the thriller Payback is scheduled for October. And there'll be more! he tells us. Quite a lot more, we hope. *These two incidents may not necessarily be related.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9781695210813
ISBN 10	1695210816
Titel	How to Write a Book
Autor	Geoff Palmer
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Independently Published
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-09-23
Seitenanzahl	144
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.