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THE NEXT BOOK
THE NEXT BOOK
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Writing just a single novel is just the start of a career in fiction. What comes after it is THE NEXT BOOK, and then the next, and the next, and...
The trick is to find and stay in the niche readers expect to find from there on in.
THE NEXT BOOK is the journey to find what needs to be repeated and what needs to be altered to keep the stories that follow that first novel from being redundant.
Much of it depends on what was in that first story. But the Next Book can't be a clone. It needs to stick with familiar elements and then change, adapt, morph, alter into a new tale to delight readers and lure them back for the book after that, and the one after that.
This journey looks at characters, genres, the differences between standalone titles, spin-offs, sequels, trilogies, and series. It considers the slight differences between cloning and doppelganging techniques in doing it all over again with a difference. It explains how tropes and cliches can be used to twist various elements in a plot or a character's makeup. It details what should be kept and what can be easily flipped for a new take on a familiar theme.
It tells the beginning novelist not to toss out the baby with the bathwater, merely to change the bathwater. Change the baby's clothing. And name. And...
Even Will Shakespeare had elements he kept because they were pleasing to audiences. When spinning THE NEXT BOOK, novelists can and should do the same.
It's called being a professional writer as opposed to spinning stories as a hobby.
Multi-published novelist and writing instructor Beth Daniels continues her Fiction Writing Aid Workshops in Book Form manuals with THE NEXT BOOK, the 13th volume in the series.
The trick is to find and stay in the niche readers expect to find from there on in.
THE NEXT BOOK is the journey to find what needs to be repeated and what needs to be altered to keep the stories that follow that first novel from being redundant.
Much of it depends on what was in that first story. But the Next Book can't be a clone. It needs to stick with familiar elements and then change, adapt, morph, alter into a new tale to delight readers and lure them back for the book after that, and the one after that.
This journey looks at characters, genres, the differences between standalone titles, spin-offs, sequels, trilogies, and series. It considers the slight differences between cloning and doppelganging techniques in doing it all over again with a difference. It explains how tropes and cliches can be used to twist various elements in a plot or a character's makeup. It details what should be kept and what can be easily flipped for a new take on a familiar theme.
It tells the beginning novelist not to toss out the baby with the bathwater, merely to change the bathwater. Change the baby's clothing. And name. And...
Even Will Shakespeare had elements he kept because they were pleasing to audiences. When spinning THE NEXT BOOK, novelists can and should do the same.
It's called being a professional writer as opposed to spinning stories as a hobby.
Multi-published novelist and writing instructor Beth Daniels continues her Fiction Writing Aid Workshops in Book Form manuals with THE NEXT BOOK, the 13th volume in the series.
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