I’m e rathke, the author of a number of books. Learn more about what you signed up for here. Go here to manage your email notifications. Everyone wants to someday write a novel. We all believe we have it in us. And probably you do. Why not! But people often wonder: How do I begin? What do I do when I get stuck?
This is great stuff. I write exclusively nonfiction, and I write every day (not a novel for sure! pretty short, around 1000 words total per piece). Nevertheless, I use these tips almost every day, or think about them very week for sure. Pacing is really important, and grabbing the reader's attention matters a great deal to me, especially since I'm not 100% sure they'll find whatever it is that I find interesting as fascinating as me. These concepts can play out over a shorter time too, and they are always on my mind.
What I got from this piece is that you rarely ever want to turn it up to 11.
You gotta earn that extra notch on the dial!
Excellent advice, very accessible and love the explanation through sharing your own story's use of it.
Thanks!
This is great stuff. I write exclusively nonfiction, and I write every day (not a novel for sure! pretty short, around 1000 words total per piece). Nevertheless, I use these tips almost every day, or think about them very week for sure. Pacing is really important, and grabbing the reader's attention matters a great deal to me, especially since I'm not 100% sure they'll find whatever it is that I find interesting as fascinating as me. These concepts can play out over a shorter time too, and they are always on my mind.
Definitely!
This newsletter is largely me stealing the tools of fiction to write nonfiction, so I think it absolutely applies across genre.
Yoink!
Take that, Dickens!
Ha!