'7 Minutes a Day...' to Writing Success!
Table of Contents from '7 Minutes a Day to Your Bestseller'
Introduction: Talent or hard work?
Sample Story: “All of Nothing”
Getting Started
Step 1. Motivate Yourself to Write
Step 2. Come up with Story Ideas
Step 3. Decide Your Story’s Length
Step 4. Utilize the Writing Process
Step 5. Recognize the Elements of Fiction
Writing the Story
Step 6. Incorporate Conflict into the Story
Step 7. Find the Center of Your Story
Step 8. Meet Your Main Character
Step 9. Create the Perfect Antagonist
Step 10. Develop a Plot
Step 11. Start Your Story: Inciting Incident
Step 12. Determine Who Has the Most at Stake
Step 13. Ponder Telling Your Story in First-person Limited
Step 14. Contemplate Telling Your Story in Third-person Omniscient
Step 15. Consider Telling Your Story in Third-person Limited
Step 16. Hook the Reader with Powerful Opening Lines
Step 17. Devise an Emotional Disturbance for Your Main Character
Step 18. Create Meaningful Settings
Step 19. Make Your Writing More Descriptive
Step 20. Write First Scene of Your Story’s Rising Action
Step 21. Ensure Your Main Character Fails
Step 22. Move the Story Forward
Step 23. Elevate Your Writing
Step 24. Show Don’t Tell
Step 25. Maintain a Single Verb Tense
Step 26. Liven Up Scenes with Active Voice
Step 27. Strengthen Your Narrative Voice
Step 28. Arrange Words in an Evocative Way
Step 29. Downgrade Your Minor Characters
Step 30. Pen Engaging Dialogue
Step 31. Provide a Message in Your Story
Step 32. Identify Your Story’s Moral Order
Step 33. Add Depth with Symbolism
Step 34. Construct a Climactic Scene
Step 35. Tie up the Story’s Loose Ends
Getting Published
Step 36. Coming up with a Title
Step 37. Choose to Self-Publish or to Remain Mainstream
Step 38. Ready the Story for Submission
Step 39. Follow Submitting Do’s and Don’ts
Step 40. Submit Your Story
Index
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Sample Story: “All of Nothing”
Getting Started
Step 1. Motivate Yourself to Write
Step 2. Come up with Story Ideas
Step 3. Decide Your Story’s Length
Step 4. Utilize the Writing Process
Step 5. Recognize the Elements of Fiction
Writing the Story
Step 6. Incorporate Conflict into the Story
Step 7. Find the Center of Your Story
Step 8. Meet Your Main Character
Step 9. Create the Perfect Antagonist
Step 10. Develop a Plot
Step 11. Start Your Story: Inciting Incident
Step 12. Determine Who Has the Most at Stake
Step 13. Ponder Telling Your Story in First-person Limited
Step 14. Contemplate Telling Your Story in Third-person Omniscient
Step 15. Consider Telling Your Story in Third-person Limited
Step 16. Hook the Reader with Powerful Opening Lines
Step 17. Devise an Emotional Disturbance for Your Main Character
Step 18. Create Meaningful Settings
Step 19. Make Your Writing More Descriptive
Step 20. Write First Scene of Your Story’s Rising Action
Step 21. Ensure Your Main Character Fails
Step 22. Move the Story Forward
Step 23. Elevate Your Writing
Step 24. Show Don’t Tell
Step 25. Maintain a Single Verb Tense
Step 26. Liven Up Scenes with Active Voice
Step 27. Strengthen Your Narrative Voice
Step 28. Arrange Words in an Evocative Way
Step 29. Downgrade Your Minor Characters
Step 30. Pen Engaging Dialogue
Step 31. Provide a Message in Your Story
Step 32. Identify Your Story’s Moral Order
Step 33. Add Depth with Symbolism
Step 34. Construct a Climactic Scene
Step 35. Tie up the Story’s Loose Ends
Getting Published
Step 36. Coming up with a Title
Step 37. Choose to Self-Publish or to Remain Mainstream
Step 38. Ready the Story for Submission
Step 39. Follow Submitting Do’s and Don’ts
Step 40. Submit Your Story
Index
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