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Book Craft: How to write books readers love, from first draft to final polish

Everybody wants to write a book,but most authors fall short.If only there was a clear, systematic, structured approach to crafting bestsellers that would...help you organize your creative ideasunravel the messy writing processsave months of editing and revisionincrease engagement and get more book reviewskeep readers glued to each page with dramatic tensionimpress your mom (and everyone else) with your geniusWhen I started out as an author, I read every book on craft, plotting and writing techniques I could find - but they left me more confused than ever. I ended up quitting, and spent a decade as a developmental editor while earning my PhD in literature.I was terrified to publish.What if nobody likes it? What if I'm a failure? How do I know a book is good before I publish? I needed a way to identify weak, amateur writing, and replace it with prose that enthralled readers. I wanted to take a good story, and turn it into a riveting manuscript.Rather than give up the quest forever, positing Great Writing up to some mysterious, invisible source I could never achieve, I developed my own framework for writing, which has allowed me to write and publish several dozen books over the past few years. What began as a simple guide to plotting became a detailed, chapter-by-chapter cheatsheet, and some brand new techniques on adding intrigue, suspense and conflict to cast a spell over readers.The truth is, therearethings that great books have in common– and even more informative, there aredefinitelysigns of weak or bad writing, which can be easily identified and avoided.Based on the lessons I've learned from editing over a hundred books and studying nearly universal writing mistakes, as well as feedback on my writing tutorials (with over 2 million views), I've reverse-engineered a structured approach to writing that will help you quickly map out your book, write it well the first time, and avoid months of painful revision.These simple, easy to follow rules, tactics and cheatsheets to help you easly improve your writing craft a

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