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Books Online

Do you read books online? With the Internet becoming more and more prominent in today’s society, I kind of expected for books to move into the online world as well. My local library even has ebooks for checking out! What do you think of this phenomenon? Will it stop you from purchasing books at your local bookstore? As for myself, as much as I live the Internet, I just can’t read a book...

Typos In Published Novels

What do you think of spelling and grammatical errors in popular published novels? Does this change the way you think of the author? I recently started reading a series about three Supernatural sisters fighting to save the world and noticed quite a few errors at least once in each book. Mind you, I know that I make a lot of errors in my writing but I don’t have an editor to proofread everything...

where have i been?

I have been getting settled into college life but no worries, I will get back to updating as soon as I can!

How To Write A Novel-part 4-More on Character Development

In this post, we are still on character development. Why you ask? Because they are the most important part of the story, of course J What you need to do is analyze your characters, what do they do to each other? Which direction are they going? Is that one in love with that character? And also the most important question of all: what will interest your readers? When dealing with character development,...

Writing a novel part 3-Characters, Plots and Protagonists

Put the names of your characters on a piece of paper, one paper each. If you can use some 5×7 index cards.  Begin planning the ”life story” of your characters.  Who are they? How old are they? What are their likes and dislikes? As they come to you, write them down on their respective papers. Just remember that every character needs to have a reason for being in the story. Develop the stories...

Writing a novel part 2-Start Small, Debunk myths, and choose characters

First things first, one thing I would recommend is incorporating what you know and what you care about in your first novel. This will cause your story to flow a bit easier. Another thing about writing a novel is that it cannot bore the reader, it has to be interesting. Don’t start out too big with your novel, but rather look for a story that is small but means something to you.  Don’t reject ideas...

How to write a novel Part 1-Creating a schedule and choosing a story

Lets begin the first part of our little e-course. First off, make sure that you have a nice arc of time to write. Even if you start wanting to scrap it all and perhaps, go watch some television keep focused. These emotions are all normal and it is important that you don’t let anything faze you from reaching your ultimate goal of creating a novel. Remember to create some time in your schedule to relax...

Becoming Jane-A Movie About Jane Austen

Via Wikipedia Becoming Jane is a movie about the famous female author, Jane Austen.  While partly fiction, it is inspired by the early life of Miss Austen and her unproven relationship with Tom Lefroy. While unproven, it has been acknowledged by biographers that there was a relationship between Tom and Jane. And also, on the Jane Austen Wikipedia page it says that there was a relationship. Becoming...

Official Launch

Its official, BWU is now live and out in the public eye. The pre-launch went smoothly and I am excited to be opening and promoting this blog. Don’t worry though I will still be delivering content almost everyday and sometimes more then once a day. Like I said in Coming Attractions there are a couple bloggeries that I already have all planned out such as the How To Write A Novel series. I am starting...

How To Write A Novel-Introduction

At the end of this series, I may turn this into an ebook which will be free to download. Writing a book can be difficult, but if other people can do it, why can’t you? You never know, you could be the next great novelist of our time. Image Via Stock Exchange To be a good writer all you need is the right amount of passion and a gentle nudge into the right direction. That is what this series...