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 and at the end of the week see what is effect ...
Posted Sunday, September 25th 2016 at 9:24PM
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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 improvement as a writer.
1. Observe and then des ...
Posted Sunday, September 18th 2016 at 11:08PM
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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 without stopping…set a goal 2,000 words duri ...
Posted Sunday, September 11th 2016 at 11:01PM
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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 time. First, write and get your ideas on paper: compl ...
Posted Sunday, September 4th 2016 at 11:00PM
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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 reader. Most writers choose this point of view. When ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2016 at 8:14PM
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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 a “conversational” writer…what does that ...
Posted Sunday, August 21st 2016 at 8:41PM
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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 equivalent of a character’s thought processes. ...
Posted Sunday, August 14th 2016 at 7:57PM
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Please visit my blog and watch my Julius J.E. Thompson Book Tour on the United States East Coast!
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Posted Wednesday, August 10th 2016 at 10:06PM
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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 figure out “Point of View”: the “Voice” in whic ...
Posted Sunday, August 7th 2016 at 9:05PM
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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 considered an art form. Description is simply ...
Posted Sunday, July 31st 2016 at 8:45PM
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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 experiences by changing or by working hard to avo ...
Posted Sunday, July 24th 2016 at 9:01PM
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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 those winding backroads in a rural area and couldn’ ...
Posted Sunday, July 24th 2016 at 8:55PM
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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 characters to perform within it.
This setting ...
Posted Sunday, July 24th 2016 at 8:49PM
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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: Jump Starting Your Inner Novelist is a concise manua ...
Posted Monday, June 27th 2016 at 10:53AM
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Please visit my Stormy Winds Website and keep up with the word count and all Pre-Publication information!
Please click to visit the Stormy Winds website: http://stormywinds.weebly.com/
Short Synopsis:
“ Stormy Winds explores Justin Fl ...
Posted Monday, June 20th 2016 at 11:13PM
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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 graduated from The City College of New York and then s ...
Posted Monday, June 6th 2016 at 8:37PM
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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 Thompson and offered up this comment about the nove ...
Posted Monday, May 23rd 2016 at 8:10PM
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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 minute PHONE consultation with me. For just $ ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2016 at 8:16PM
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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 story. You will learn the “Elements of a Novel” ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2016 at 8:10PM
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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 your book on a website or pull a copy down of yo ...
Posted Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 at 7:36PM
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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 they intimidate, then you must turn a deaf ea ...
Posted Monday, May 2nd 2016 at 10:49PM
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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 game.
The gym feels forsaken without basketb ...
Posted Saturday, April 16th 2016 at 11:56PM
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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 Philly Profile, is set in the seventies but reflects h ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2016 at 7:59PM
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