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How to make your story popular?

You sent months of hard work writing a great serial story. After a while you decide to publish it online, so thousand of people could read it and maybe even buy it. You have done editing, make up and finished with a book cover. You found a way to publish a serial story online, and here you’re waiting for finest hour. But will your story get famous by itself?


Promoting a story: concealed difficulties

Even authors who are published in big publishing houses need to make an effort on their book to become popular and well known. If they are looking for the way to do it then an independent writer should try even twice harder. Best way to increase your chances of having enormous fan-base and start getting revenue from a story is to develop a well-planed marketing strategy, as most successful authors do.


Three strategies to increase awareness of the story

Promote your serial story from the moment you start writing it.

It’s never to late to start. Most of the writers begin with the announcement of their e-books on the website, popular media and through personal meetings. Tell about your story to everyone who visits your page. You don’t need complete story, publish several chapters, build a newsletter subscription so readers could track your progress and make it easy to share content.


Spread a word.

Contact with bloggers that will be interested in your story idea, offer them interview, inside to your work and ask for reviews. Ask your fans of your previous work to give you reviews. Don’t forget to write an overview, posts on your social media, make several tweets, send it to your friends and colleagues and ask them to share. Make it comfortable for readers to reach you and read your story. Tell the world about your story through all possible media channels that you are able to find, so your book can cover a huge audience.


Give potential buyers chance to read the book.

Give readers the opportunity to read the book fow low price, make it free or create a crowdfunding campaign. 

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5 secrets of the bestseller or How to write as Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy, the insurance agent turned superpower thriller novelist, left behind a legacy that includes bestselling books, movies, even videos games. Although he didn’t set down a list of writing tips for posterity, his admirers studied interviews and lectures of the master, and revealed 5 secrets that will help you to write spectacular stories same as Clancy’s. 


Secret # 1 - tell the story.

“Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.” What’s the difference you may ask? Instead of trying to impress critics with his literary pyrotechnics, Clancy said he told stories to “take people away from driving trucks or fixing toilets or whatever they do, away from their drudgery. That’s a good enough purpose for any man.” Clancy’s career really took off when a man not known for being a member of the literati, then - President Ronald Reagan, labeled Clancy’s first book The Hunt for Red October a “perfect yarn.”


Secret # 2 - writing is like golf.

“A lot of people think when you start writing a story something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired - it’s hard work.” Clancy’s advises writers to “Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right.”


Secret # 3 - make pretend more real than real.

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense,” Clancy said. Denied military service because of severe nearsightedness, Clancy nevertheless fostered top–level military contacts. “He is welcomed aboard jets and submarines and permitted to ride in tanks to his heart’s delight,” wrote one reporter. “I hang my hat on getting as many things right as I can,” said Clancy. “I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real - that’s the spooky part.” Nothing perhaps more spooky than his 1994 novel Debt of Honor which ends with a Boeing 747 purposefully crashed into the Capitol during a joint session of Congress, foreshadowing 9/11.


Secret # 4 - writer’s block is unacceptable.

”I don’t even consider the possibility - if you think about it, it might happen!”


Secret # 5 - no one can take your dream away.

“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn’t have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Your spouse and children need not get in its way, because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.”


If you dream to write a bestseller, go ahead! You can do it! 


Source: First Class for Writers

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Simple Steps To Write A Story

Here is guidelines that will help you with a writing process, find clarity by beginning strong and carrying the story through to the end:

1. Ideas generation. Write down every single idea that comes to your mind. More the better. Write everything you want, everything that bothers you. Don’t pay attention of quality of ideas at this stage. Write as much ideas as you can.

2. Filtration. In this stage we take hardcore approach to ideas. Discard all weak ideas and leave powerful ones that are worth writing a story.

3. Selection. Review ideas that you have selected. Which ones are the best? How you can improve them? Try to choose just one idea that will serve to you future plot.

4. Logline is a concept development. Describe your concept of the story in one sentence. For example, after an incident an advertising executive gain an ability to hear what women are really thinking (“What women want”). Try to enhance some drama to the story, add bit of conflict or intrigue.

5. Name the story. Think of working title for your story.

6. Comparison. Pick one or two of your favorite books in a same genre you are writing in and use them as a guideline to your story.

7. Structure. Make a structure of a story and define which parts need more work.

8. Character development. What are their advantages and disadvantages? How the main character is going to change by the end of the story? What he needs to learn? How personalities and actions of the characters reflect to the storyline of your story?

9. Synopsis. Describe the story in two or thee pages.

10. Give more detailed description of the story and include dialogues and write whole story from the beginning till the end.

11. Draft. Finish your first draft and put it aside for a week or two.

12. Editing. Try to rewrite your draft at least six times.

· In the second version of your draft fix inconsistencies, implausible moments and flaws in a plot. Check whether your idea follow original concept of the story, and take out everything that doesn’t serve to the goals of a larger piece.

· Third. Look though the structure. Make sure that your storyline on its own place. What can you take out without losing the idea?

· Fourth. Pay attention to the characters. Do you really need all of them? Who behaves incongruously to his/hers personality?

· Fifth. Edit dialogs. Make sure that each character speaks in a unique way and it’s matching their personality.

· And the last time, sixth. Correct all your grammatical errors.

Look carefully if there are things that can be improved. What word is better replace one word with another? Where to put space, comma, etc.?

13. Publish. If you are you happy with final version, give a name to the story and… its ready! Share it with your friends. Let them read and criticize. If you agree with their feedback, apply them and make some improvements to the story.

Good luck! :)

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Where to Start?

I want to write a story, are you familiar with such desire? You know that acute sense of becoming a сreator, a сreator of something new, hitherto not existed in the world. It's great to see your grandchildren touching your thoughts, feelings, joys wriiten on the paper while you were young. But what if it will be not only your grandchildren and you will write a real literary treasure for all mankind? In this article you will find a solution to turn desire into action. 


Where Do Story Ideas Come From

First, what you have to do is to meet your desire to write a story and the need to structure your thoughts. They should turn from chaotic mass into a faceted crystal story. It's possible to do by creating a goal of the story (its meaning).

It is better to take the idea from inside you. Rummage in your mind and find what you are tormented about. Things you need to tell the world. Remember your main source of new ideas, as a writer, is exploring the world. It can be almost anything that you find interesting. Maybe it's a location that enchants you, a character sketch, an overheard dialogue, or even a great quote.

As a writer, you are going to start collecting these story crumbs as you go through your everyday life. You'll begin to pay attention when something you hear or see rings a bell to your head that says there is something there worth discovering.

Don't get into a loop by staying focus on something specific; be open and susceptible to whatever comes. You will be surprised at what's in your brain just waiting to pour out onto the page.


What stories are people interested in reading

Often authors are bothered about the fact that readers should like thier work. Of course, its important, but don't forget that its impossible to please everyone. From this we get a rule – write for yourself, but spare the reader.

In your story focus only on yourself. There is no need to chase public opintion, otherwise this going to lead you into a morass of banality. Be yourself, but don't forget about technical aspects. Using proper tools, storytelling and drawing on your inner world you will creat a great story.


How to choose a genre?

The first step to choose a genre is to find the one that best reveal your original idea. Your story idea is a guideline for selecting the best genre to tell the story, as well as, ability to work within certain limits.

Every genre has its specific features and requirements that can take a your idea in totally different directions. Be careful while choosing the genre, it might turn on you and cast away that great idea of yours. Start by identifying the goal of your main character and see which genre will best fit into.

To sum up we can say that getting idea, choosing the genre and topic to write a story is a manageable task. Most important that the desire “I want to write a story” would never left you. Good luck and Happy Writing! 

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