Author RSSMaloneEditorial.com: Who Are These People? Knowing Your Characters
I talk a lot about characterization. A whole lot. Because characters drive your story, and without a great protagonist (and hopefully, small supporting cast), your reader has no one to root for; no one with whom to catch a ride and travel the course of th...
MaloneEditorial.com: Who Are These People? Knowing Your Characters
Anant Mandgi is family concern law firms which run by third generation of lawyer. The full service firm was established in 1925 with the motive to serve people regarding law and legal. They have unique ability to dealing with the clients and solved all ki...
MaloneEditorial.com: Structure And The Novel--The First 50 Pages
We talked before about a novel’s opening line, and how important getting it just right is.
So, now let’s say you’ve written that bang up first line, and now let’s focus on the rest of the book’s beginning—the first fifty pages.
Isn’t that just the ha...
MaloneEditorial.com: 5 Most-Important Writer’s Resolutions
The New Year has arrived, and with it, gazillions of resolutions. Writerly ones included, of course! I get tons of emails this time of year from folks recommitting to their book writing goals, which is a great thing. The love of the written word, and how...
MaloneEditorial.com: Shaping A Book
I often say that books are more than the sum of their words. A real book is an entire entity—plot, organization, characterization, style, including all of the subheads for each one. Circling all of these things is the entire forest—the shape of the book. ...
MaloneEditorial.com: Writing Your Memoir
Ever since Angela’s Ashes hit the scene (some sixteen years ago), the Memoir genre has been hot. And I get a lot of them, especially in this day of POD and e-books, where self-publishing is so easy, and so inexpensive. But one’s life story, no matter how ...
MaloneEditorial.com: Breaking The Rules
days has precious little to do with anything actually literary). Rules, however, govern the craft, to the chagrin of novice writers. “I just want to write,” and, “The rules take away my creativity,” or, “But so and so book author does this all the time!” ...
MaloneEditorial.com: 3 Steps To The Perfect Query
Misconceptions abound about what a real query should be. The agents and editors I know don’t want to be ‘wowed.’ Nor do they want to be bored to tears. Humor can help, but only if it’s not forced and most importantly, if such prose holds true in the co...
MaloneEditorial.com: Scenes Part 1—Setting
The goal of any good book writing is to offer the reader an experience. Not just words on the page; not just a story told to; but a journey in which your reader is involved. Novels and works of narrative nonfiction use scenes to accomplish this. Scenes ar...
MaloneEditorial.com: A Writer’s Style
We talk a lot in this business about a writer’s ‘style,’ and often that’s an elusive issue. Not one’s voice, exactly, although style incorporates voice, and not the technical aspects such as sentence structure and word usage, syntax, although those, too c...
MaloneEditorial.com: Slaying Writing Demons
Writing is a convoluted and intensely psychological process. Even those who say it comes easy and/or don't want to deal with all that mental 'mumbo jumbo' get caught in the same psychological traps as the rest of us. Anything that originates from the hear...