500 Ways To Be A Better Writer

500 Ways To Be A Better Writer

“If it weren't for Chuck Wendig's advice, I'd have fallen off the writing map long ago.” -- Karina Cooper, Author of Blood of the Wicked<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />500 WAYS TO BE A BETTER WRITER aims to provide novelists, screenwriters and other flavors of penmonkey with an avalanche of writing tips and storytelling tricks. All of it greased up with whisky and bad language (let that serve as your first and only warning: this is a very NSFW book of writing advice).<br /><br />500 WAYS contains the following:<br /><br />Prologue: 25 Things You Should Know About Writing Advice<br />25 Questions To Ask As You Write<br />25 Reasons You Won’t Finish That Story<br />25 Things You Should Know About Endings<br />25 Things You Should Know About Mood<br />25 Things You Should Know About NaNoWriMo<br />25 Things You Should Know About Queries, Synopses And Treatments<br />25 Things You Should Know About Self-Publishing<br />25 Things You Should Know About Social Media<br />25 Things You Should Know About Theme<br />25 Things You Should Know About Writing Horror<br />25 Virtues Writers Should Possess<br />25 Ways To Be A Better Writer<br />25 Ways To Defeat Writer’s Block<br />25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters<br />25 Ways To Make Exposition Your Bitch<br />25 Ways To Plot, Plan And Prep Your Story<br />The Life Cycle Of A Novel (In 25 Steps)<br />Appendix 1: 25 Sleep-Deprived And Also Drunken Thoughts On Writing<br />Appendix 2: 25 Brief-But-Hopefully-Potent Writing Exercises<br /><br /><br />* * *<br />