First-person or third-person or somewhere in between?

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It is perhaps the most important thing you have to ask yourself as an author. How will I pass on my story? What’s the best means of conveying the actions and emotions? Are things better communicated through the eyes of the author/narrator (first person) or from an almost dispassionate distance as the messenger/teller of events (third person)?

Dialogue can be a writer’s best friend, or his worst enemy. Authors who learn to be comfortable with it usually end up being the most successful.

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Stories can be broadly dissected into three distinctive parts – the narrative (scene-setting, and plot description), the action (who does what to whom) and dialogue (who says what). The latter segment is the one which appears to cause problems for many writers who struggle to get a balance between saying too much and not nearly enough.

Do judge a book by its cover

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Authors – most particularly indie authors – are learning the hard way that getting potentials readers to land on the cover image of their creation cannot be taken for granted. Authors need a hook. And a clean, interesting cover must be the default starting point.

Writing a book is more like a marathon than a sprint

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The world of athletics provides analogies aplenty to describe the processes by which authors get a book ready for the finishing line.