Getting Your Bad Self Published in 2010

Major content for you today.

Right around the corner here on Storyfix.com awaits a 10-part series on how to get published, which will consume most of December, with a few side trips and guest blogs tossed in. While this topic ranks right up there with how to get rich and how to have the best orgasm of your life on the cliche scale of life’s-desires, let me say at the outset that this will be unlike any mentoring on this topic you’ve ever read.

Because I’m not going to sugar-coat it. And yes, it will begin with “write a great book or screenplay” as the centerpiece of it all, but from there — especially today — all bets are off. And I won’t just tell you to write that story, I’ll show you how to do it, criteria-wise.

As a warm-up, there is a pile of stuff you need to understand to achieve this goal. Toward that end, I’d like to point you toward some material I’ve written for other writing sites, as recently as yesterday, in fact. Posting articles on other sites is a great growth strategy, but sometimes I feel like you, my loyal readers, are missing out. So I’m linking you to some of them today.

Writing mentor Carolyn Howard-Johnson hosted me on her site yesterday (Monday), Sharingwithwriters.com, with an article entitled: Larry Brooks Fighting the Publishing Odds for Fiction Writers. You can read it here.

Over the past few months I’ve posted six blogs in a series for James at Menwithpens.ca. You can access them here by clicking on the titles:

1 – Five Things You Absolutely Need to Know Before You Write a Novel

2 -Six Elements You Must Master to Write a Publishable Novel

3 - Three Key Questions to Ramp Up Your Story’s Mojo

4 - Are You a Pantser or a Plotter?

5 - Does Your Novel Have a Theme?

6 – Did You Reach Your NaNoWriMo Goal?

There’s a ton of other great content on James’ site, on fiction and on freelancing in general.

If you missed the recent post by Bill Johnson here on Storyfix, you missed something pretty insightful on creating compelling characters. Check it out here.

If you’re new to all this, or simply new here, your entry-point should be an introduction to the Six Core Competencies of Successful Storytelling, which you can read here. I recommend you access the entire Six Core Competencies oeuvre in the Archives.

And of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t steer you toward my ebook, Story Structure – Demystified, which you can learn more about here. The title alone should make your writing Jones sit up and notice.

Up next: The Second Most Important Thing You Need to Do to Get Published in 2010. It’s the kickoff of the series.

Gotta go now. Need to get on all that, and my writing Jones is absolutely throbbing.