Ask the Author: Stephen Malins
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Stephen Malins
That's a good one. Why I can't find my car keys just when I need to jump in my car to take one of my children anywhere...
I am sure it would be a No #1 Bestseller...
I am sure it would be a No #1 Bestseller...
Stephen Malins
*You need to be a reader first, and a good one.
*You need to learn something about the craft. (It took me a few months to cotton on to that.)
*Show and Tell is good to start off with, but there is more to it than that. I would add Pace, Tone, Colour and then Voice. You need that even more.
I have met clever writers that break conventions but they know what they are doing.
*You may need to hit tropes to be a successful genre writer.
*You need to learn something about the craft. (It took me a few months to cotton on to that.)
*Show and Tell is good to start off with, but there is more to it than that. I would add Pace, Tone, Colour and then Voice. You need that even more.
I have met clever writers that break conventions but they know what they are doing.
*You may need to hit tropes to be a successful genre writer.
Stephen Malins
Some people might say "the very fact I got there!"
I don't really know - I just like writing! Everything else just hangs off that.
I don't really know - I just like writing! Everything else just hangs off that.
Stephen Malins
I am about to publish my second book about a trip from Africa to the Saint Lucia in the Caribbean.
I am always working on my first book - answering questions and keeping up with what constitutes 'marketing'.
I am always working on my first book - answering questions and keeping up with what constitutes 'marketing'.
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