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What is Publimetry?
Publimetry is the art of combining publishing and technology.
Your story, your way.
Writer’s Guide — What is a Theme? It’s What Your Story is Really About
“What’s your story about?” As a writer, you have probably been asked that questions many times. Often, writers fall into the trap of stating something like, “science fiction,” or “it’s a mystery novel.” However, they are simply giving the genre and not the theme. What is a theme? A theme simply answers what the story is about.
Writer’s Guide — Using Plot to Answer the Big Dramatic Question
Have you ever read a story where you had a hard time figuring out what was going on? Not in an Inception type of way, but more like you can’t figure out what the story is trying to accomplish. What is happening? A well-defined plot describes the main part of the story in which everything revolves. Knowing and answering the big dramatic question centers around the protagonist’s central conflict and keeps the reader interested in your story.
Writer’s Guide — Creating a Character Profile
When writing your novel, it’s important to get to know all your characters, even the bad ones. Developing your character profiles and investing the time to understand them more intimately. Doing so will enable you to write with more authenticity. Flesh them out and imagine how they would act in the real world.
Writer’s Guide — Different Types of Point of View in Writing
Contemplate reading the latest murder mystery on the market. Imagine your emotional response to the story presented from the point of view (POV) of the husband who first stumbled upon the scene of the crime. What about a story from the victim’s perspective as they you (the reader) tell their story? Would your reaction be any different if the narrator was an omnipresent narrator with no direct ties to the characters? The point of view, or voice that tells your story, directly impacts your emotional connection to your story.
Writer’s Guide — Tips for Writing Dialogue
Fiction can exist without dialogue, but it’s often the interaction between characters that brings readers into the story. Dialogue helps to move the story along. It also gives your characters a voice and life of their own. So, what exactly is it? Simply put, the dialogue is a conversation between two or more people put down in written form. It’s an exchange of information or ideas. It’s what the character’s say and is most commonly the text between quotation marks.
Understanding Active and Passive Voice in Your Writing
When writing blogs, articles, and novels, understanding the active and passive voice is important. Most style guides, such as the APA Manual of Style or AMA prefer that author’s use the active voice in general. But what does active voice mean? Is it required to always use active voice? Not necessarily. Let’s discuss what the different styles are what when it is appropriate to use one or the other.
GET INSPIRED
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time–proof that humans can work magic.”
— Carl Sagan
5 STEPS TO MANUSCRIPT COMPLETION
Dream
The first stage in writing your story is sitting down and writing out your idea. What’s your hook?
Plan
You have your idea. Now you have to plan it. Outline, research, and choose your delivery method.
Develop
Now built your product. Write it, photograph it, or code it. Starting is the hardest part.
Protect
Before setting it free, you need to protect it. Copyrights, barcodes, etc., are there for your protection.
Release
Once it’s created, now it’s time to distribute it fly. Marketing is a vital element in giving it wings.