The Easy Way to Write a Novel That Sells

by Rob Parnell

Rob Parnell, "the world's foremost writing guru" - and Kindle bestselling author, brings you the ultimate easy way to write a novel that sells. Even if you've never written a word of fiction before! Here's a complete guide to planning, creating and writing a great full length novel in the shortest possible time. Includes a 12-module Fiction 101 writing course to help you with the 'rules' of characterization, plotting, point of view, scene structure, novel templates and much more. With step by step, no nonsense tips, techniques and simple strategies, this book will enable you to turn your most treasured dream - to write a novel that sells - into a reality. You'll be able to turn on the tap to instant creativity. You will gain the all important Author's Mindset! You'll learn how to banish self doubt and lack of confidence. You'll have access to all the tricks and skills of professional writers. Best of all, whilst writing for no more than an hour or two a day, you'll be able to finish an entire novel - easily - in less than a month. Guaranteed! Most people - even some professional writers - think that writing a novel is hard. That it's something that requires dedication, talent and heaps of spare time. Amateurs think it's something that only others can do. These are some of the most persistent myths that surround the writing process. Rob Parnell's new book explodes those myths! Based on information gleaned from twenty-five years of writing and working with hundreds of writers, artists, screenwriters, agents, producers, directors, managers and publishers, this book will take you on an exciting journey. It's a frank, honest and thorough road map to success. You will learn how to write fast and well and easily - in fact, probably faster and better than you ever thought possible! You Will * How to acquire an author's mindset - easily, quickly and without effort. * Writing Q.E.D - creating compelling fiction no-one can ignore! * The trick to getting your reader to love your characters * Revolutionary F.A.S.T. editing * The Six Killer Rules for writing any fiction. * The Ten Deadly Sins writers commit - so you don't have to! * How to deal with procrastination and the dreaded writer's block. * How to deal with distractions including family, friends and spouses! * Learn the secret to boundless creativity * All the tips, tools and techniques necessary for fast, faultless fiction! * All this and much, much more! These skills would likely take you years to learn. Why waste that valuable time? It's all here! Rob has been a writer all his life. He's passionate about writing. Ask any of his 100,000 students at www.easywaytowrite.com and they'll tell you. His aim is to help writers - no matter where they're at - to succeed. Here's a Good fiction writing can be taught. You don't need to be a genius, or hugely talented or even clever. Good writing can be taught. Have you ever been amazed by an author's success? Especially when their writing is average? There's a reason for it. The truth is anyone, with the right guidance, can create compelling fiction. Anyone can write a brilliant novel. Yep. Even you. Over the years, Rob has worked with thousands of writers, on all kinds of projects. The same excuses keep coming up. * I don't have the time to write * I can't get my head around this story - it's too hard * I don't know where to start * I'm not good enough * I can't get this character right * This plot doesn't work as well I thought it would You've probably used a few of these yourself in the past. The fact is all the above excuses are the result of wrong thinking. That's where "The Easy Way to Write a Novel That Sells" can help you most. It goes right to heart of writers' problems and deconstructs them from the inside out.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

293 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2013

About the author

Rob is a creative dynamo involved in books, film and music.

Reviews

[Holli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Despite his warning, I ended up kind of skipping over the beginning of this book to get to the "meat" of it. The "reprogramming the brain" aspect at the start put me off in a big way. I already did this years ago to work with my dyslexia and ADHD and have no desire to go doing anything of the sort again. I like the way my brain works already, thank you very much. Also, a lot of the start information proved irrelevant to me and I found it kind of eye-glazing. This aside, the book has a lot of useful information and I hope to make use of some the technique for my own writing and plotting.

[Keith Cochran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of solid advice on how to write a novel. He talks about writing from the subconscious and how readers read your work. This is a pretty quick read and it has lots of good advice. I'll use is as a reference as I write.

[Sue Lilley · Rating 2 out of 5]

If ever a book had a misleading title… There was nothing easy about it! Most of it is a comprehensive manual on the psychology of being a writer. The brief writing element is a thirty-day plan and there’s nothing at all about selling, other than the usual advice on a traditional pitch to an agent. However the author clearly knows his stuff and I’m sure some of the advice will have sunk in. But my goodness it was long!

[Netta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not bad. Highly interesting and very persuasive. There is lots to learn about writing short stories for publication but could also be used for novel writing as well. Nicely done!