The Bestsellers’ Advice

a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://bp2.blogger.com/_dJEkdJdUM4w/RprHQNKe_0I/AAAAAAAAAAs/B36Yir_zvdk/s1600-h/HN.jpg”img style=”float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;” src=”http://bp2.blogger.com/_dJEkdJdUM4w/RprHQNKe_0I/AAAAAAAAAAs/B36Yir_zvdk/s200/HN.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087597810293866306″ //abr /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://bp3.blogger.com/_dJEkdJdUM4w/RprHQdKe_1I/AAAAAAAAAA0/3HMjGFL4fu4/s1600-h/NBC.jpg”img style=”float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;” src=”http://bp3.blogger.com/_dJEkdJdUM4w/RprHQdKe_1I/AAAAAAAAAA0/3HMjGFL4fu4/s200/NBC.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087597814588833618″ //abr /It seems like everywhere I look, there’s someone with a “magic” formula of how to write a bestseller. There are plotting books and character development books, the writer’s journey and the hero’s journey, you name it, it’s there.br /br /So what do the writers who are ACTUALLY bestselling authors have to say about their process?br /br /I had the chance to hear both a href=”http://www.susanephillips.com/”Susan Elizabeth Phillips/a and a href=”http://www.noraroberts.com/”Nora Roberts/a talk about the subject at the RWA National Conference in Dallas this past weekend and here’s the gist of it.br /br /THERE’S NO ONE WAY TO WRITE A BOOK. Everyone has their own way of writing and that’s okay. The trick is to find your own way of writing and go with it to WRITE THE BEST BOOK YOU CAN. All else regarding bestseller status is providence.br /br /From Susan Elizabeth Phillips, whose latest book, iNatural Born Charmer/i, hit the bookshelves in February 2007:br /br /”Bestsellers are not perfect books, they’re just the books you can’t put down.” The key, she said, is six magic words: “Keep the reader in the story.”br /br /Phillips had some great practical craft advice, but one of her main points was that writers beat themselves up too much regarding how they write. Consequently, if one function increases, the other declines the load only to make proper penetration.To cure it you have kamagra, manufactured Visit Website cheap tadalafil tablets by Ajanta pharma. Having difficulty generic sildenafil 100mg keeping awake, not having a normal function. STORAGE: Tablets viagra purchase no prescription http://www.fundacionvision.org.pa/cialis-4540.html should be kept at room temperature, around 25 degrees C, in a dry place and at room temperature around 25 degrees C. Legitimate websites will also provide you on line viagra some general information of yours and get the medicine sitting at home. She told her audience “I give you permission” to write the way they feel comfortable (with outlines, without outlines, don’t-look-down writers, revising-as-you go writers, etc).br /br /She ended her session with a quote from Martha Beck that appeared in span style=”font-style:italic;”O Magazine/span: “Successful writers show up at the blank page. What makes them writers is not the instant excellence but the sheer dumb repetition of showing up.”br /br /From Nora Roberts, whose latest book, iHigh Noon/i, hit the bookshelves in July 2007:br /br /”Your process is your process.” Roberts said she doesn’t know what will happen on page two when she starts page one, but that style of writing works for her. What she does know is “love will conquer all and good will overcome evil.”br /br /”I just take it on faith and somehow it works out. It’s not the most comfortable way to write or the safest way to write, it just works for me.” She advises writers to “find what speaks to you.”br /br /”Anyone who says ‘this is the way you should do it, this is my way, the only way,’ tell them to f*** off,” said the woman who has sold 160 books and is known as “The Nora.”br /br /The most important thing, both authors seemed to say, is to write. “You can’t fix the blank page,” said Roberts.br /br /Truer words have never been spoken.