2. Writing a book
Boost your chances of success by writing well.
Good planning and writing will minimise reworking processes — our free downloads below will help save you time and money.
The degree of writing expertise you need will depend on
- the genre,
- the final goal you have for your self-published work
- and how you envisage it being 'published'.
Well-planned writing should be matched with good editing and proofreading, whatever you publish and whatever your goals. However, if you are writing and self-publishing a novel to sell, the writing skills and polishing required can differ, for example, from memoirs you intend to share only with family and friends.
If you are a business or a business leader wanting to self-publish a company handbook or a book that summarises your intellectual property and you don't have the writing expertise in-house, you will need to think about contracting someone to ensure the end product is fully professional.
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Our expertise is free to you in these downloads.
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What you'll get:
An introduction to fiction writing details the skills and process best followed to write good fiction. Topics include:
- Preparation and commitment
- Finding your own voice
- Audience
- Sequencing and plot
- Beginning, middle and end
- Description
- Narration
- Dialogue
- Punctuation
- Who? Where? When? What? How? and Why?
- Key events
- Point of view
- Setting
- Characters
- Signposting
- Rhythm and pace
An introduction to writing non-fiction details the processes generally employed to write good non-fiction. Topics include:
- Audience
- Sequencing
- Types of writing
- Sections, chapters, paragraphs
- Signposting
- Illustrations and captions
- Indexing, table of contents, footnotes and endnotes
Writing Memoirs
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