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Improving your Marketing technique with the use of the Rule of Five! Marketing Tip: 1. Observe “The Rule of Five” 2. Dedicate yourself to do five things every day to market your book: Keep a list

Improving your writing technique, Keep a Descriptive Journal! Writing Tip: Keep a Descriptive Journal where you keep all your writing exercises. This will be a fantastic future reference to see your

Monday Writing Tips: Consult with Julius on “Your Writing time”! When you craft a novel, what time do you write? Writing Tip: Suggestion: write at different times of the day. Write for 45 minutes

When you craft a novel, do not write and edit at the same time! They are two different aspects of composing a novel. It is like driving a car while pumping the gas pedal and the breaks at the same tim

Third person point of view is used by news reporters, outsiders looking at the action. You may choose third person omniscient to reveal the thoughts of every character and open every emotion to the re

What kind of writer are you? What is your writing style? Your writing is created out of your personality. You must reach down inside your creative self to find out how you will put words on paper. I’m

What is Stream of Consciousness in a novel? Wow, this is a tough element of story construction. The dictionary tells us that it is a narrative mode. What? To make it simple it is giving a written

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How am I going to tell my story? Which point of view (POV) should I use. Your goal as an author is to decide on the point of view I want to use to tell my story. You must swallow hard and try to figur

Your goal as an author is to “Be Specific” in your novel: A clarion call to all creative writers as you pull your readers into the “Fictive Dream” of your book. That’s the reason description is consid

Plausible complex characters are crucial to successful storytelling. This involves the protagonist, the antagonist and a carnival of minor characters. All of your characters should respond to their

How do you use subplots to your advantage in crafting a novel? A subplot is a secondary plot that is supporting a side story for any story or main plot line. Have you ever driven down one of tho

Where am I? This is a question you DON’T want your readers to dwell on as they turn the pages of your novel. You must craft a vivid realistic setting to act as a backdrop canvass in order for your

Book Review: Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist by J. E. Thompson Posted on June 27, 2016 by Cheryl Holloway Title: Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist Genre: Reference/Writing Synopsis: Ju

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Mohammad Ali! Like everyone I’m saddened with the passing of this iconic sports figure. I never met the man, but I did have a ringside encounter with the greatest boxer of all time. I gradua

A Brownstone in Brooklyn in Brooklyn celebrates its' 15th year of publication. Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Terry Kay recently read “A Brownstone In Brooklyn” by Julius J E Thomp

I have been getting a lot of calls from people who just need a little push or helping hand in constructing their novel. Here’s is what I have decided to do. I’ll give you a no-strings-attached 20

Begin the process of developing an original idea into a publishable manuscript. Learn to write, revise, and write again as you practice completing the first two chapters of your novel or short s

Sometimes, I put myself in the psyche of a reader who scrolls over the book list on the Amazon website or stroll down the Barnes & Nobles’ bookstore isle. What makes the reader click and purchase

Authors Must Create Their Own Writing Style! If you are sensitive to critics’ comments, the writing “Rules Police”, experts discussing this issue, with such aplomb that t

For years when the high school basketball season ended. I would go to the empty gym and reflect on the previous season. A gym is a lonely place without players practicing or players playing in a g

Gangs and Drugs: Two lethal destructive plagues that are attacking young African-American males in the black communities throughout the United States of America. My novel, Philly Style and Phil