Are You Ready to Create Your Story World?
All stories take place in a story world, no matter what the genre! What is your story world like?
Let THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WORLD BUILDING show you how to create a story world that is believable, and genre-appropriate as well as appropriate to your story!
This THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WORLD BUILDING not only explains why you need a story world, but also shows you the many ways a properly developed story world will enhance your story and deepen your readers’ experiences with your writing. It will show you how to use your story world to develop character, advance the plot, strengthen the story structure, and even deepen the theme of your novel.
Then the COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WORLD BUILDING takes you through the specifics of more than 30 separate genres and subgenres of fiction, explaining exactly what the key elements are for each one, so your story world is exactly suitable, whether you’re writing a contemporary romance story, a hard-nosed police procedural, or a LitRPG story or anything in between.
This guide takes the mystery and the work out of building a story world, with suggestions for tools and techniques to make building your story world easy and fast, focusing on the essential world elements that your story and your story’s genre really need.
AVAILABLE IN E-BOOK, PRINT, and (Coming Soon!) AUDIOBOOK
This unique combination of theory and practical advice guarantees The Comprehensive Guide to World Building will become indispensable to seasoned authors and beginners alike. — Jean Marie Ward, Multi-published, Multi-genre author
DO YOU want readers to find your stories un-put-downable?
DO YOU want to create stories readers love?
WRITE GREAT SCENES gives you a key set of tools to becoming a writer whose works readers can’t stop reading.
The most fundamental building block of any novel isn’t the character or the plot or anything except the scenes. If you learn how to write great scenes you’ll be well on your way to creating novels readers can’t put down.
This book breaks down what makes a great scene, the four critical elements every great scene needs, and provides you with an entire toolkit of Page-Turner Techniques you can use every day in your writing to turn ordinary scenes into PAGE-TURNER SCENES!
You also learn how to recognize when a problem exists in a scene and—more importantly—you’ll learn how to FIX SCENE PROBLEMS easily and quickly.
DO YOU HAVE A GREAT IDEA FOR A STORY—
But NO CLUE How to Turn It Into a Novel?
START YOUR STORY RIGHT takes your raw story concept from a vague idea to something ready to develop into a novel just the way established writers do.
With seven easy questions and a bit of additional knowledge, you’ll learn how to delve into your story idea to find its essence—so you can use that essence as you write your novel. You’ll understand how to identify protagonists, antagonists, define the conflict, and even establish your story’s theme. And you’ll do all this with seven straightforward questions.
With only a few hours effort you’ll clarify your idea and develop it into something workable as a novel—one that can be a true page-turner readers can’t stop reading!
Do You Know the Story Tropes for Your Book’s Genre?
Readers have certain expectations when they pick up a book labeled “Romance” or “Science Fiction” or “Mystery”. Those expectations are the “tropes” for that genre—and writers ignore story tropes at their peril when writing!
Imagine a Romance without a satisfying love story conclusion. Or a Mystery that never solves the crime. Or a Fantasy that plays out in the everyday contemporary world with no magic or mysteries. You can’t, can you? That’s becasue those tropes are what define the genre. You can write a good book without a love story—but it won’t be a Romance. And if you try to sell it as a Romance, readers will almost certainly revolt!
Does this mean all stories in a given genre are the same? Or tired rehashes of other books? Not at all! Writers can take those story tropes, twist them, generate a new approach to them, and even combine one genre’s tropes with those of a different genre. All of which adds to the creative appeal of the story while it surprises and pleases readers!
But it all starts with understanding the tropes in the genre you’re writing.
Story Tropes by Genre guides you through the most common tropes for seven major genres, with a fun, highly readable explanation of how those tropes are most commonly used. Then start mixing and mashing tropes across a couple of genres to make them your own and create a fresh story readers will love. Genres included are: Fantasy, Horror, LitRPG, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, and Westerns
Discover ways to make standard tropes fresh and exciting to your readers!
