Some Advice You Can Use
Okay, I have not been blogging over here in awhile, but I have been working on some new projects. Very different projects for me, but I’m looking forward to launching them end of this month. I can tell you I had a wonderful online buddy coach me through the process. Her advice has been phenomenal because she knows her stuff! When she sends an email or calls me on the phone, I’m poised and ready with a notebook and a pen. LOL!
Well, this week another person provided some great advice for first-time novelist (which I would consider myself – just need to get to the publication part). Now I don’t know him personally, but he is fantastic about answering questions on his blog.
Literary agent, Chip MacGregor response to the question, “As a first-time novelist, what advice can you give me to create a great, page-turning novel?”:
Dialogue and action. That won’t necessarily make for the deepest, or most thoughtful, or the most life-changing sort of book, but it will make your book a page-turner. A high sense of drama is necessary, of course. So is telling an interesting story at a brisk pace. (Whoever read a slow, rambling thriller?) Unresolved conflicts help. So do plot twists, and fascinating characters, or characters I like who are placed in tense situations. But if you stick to dialogue and action, you’ll make your book more of a page-turner.
I encourage you to read the rest of the post at http://chipmacgregor.com. For folks getting ready to attend the ACFW Conference next week, have FUN for me too! I hope to attend next year.
