Get It Published

Strengthen Your Writing to Maximize Chances Of Acceptance

What you'll learn

Discover techniques bestselling writers use to make their stories stronger.

Learn how to make a strong plot for your novel.

Learn how to engage a reader with your story and protagonist.

Reduce the chances of having a novel rejected by an agent or publisher.

Requirements

No experience needed, just a desire to complete a publishable novel.

Description

You’ve written your first novel. You hope it gets accepted by a literary agent or publishing house. For most beginners, rejection is more likely. But don’t lose heart. Harry Potter was rejected a dozen times; Steven King’s first book Carrie was rejected twenty times.Are you a new author contemplating a novel? Have you already written a few chapters? Or perhaps you’ve made it to THE END and are almost ready to submit the story to an agent or publisher. In any case, Get It Published is for you. You want to eliminate reasons for an acquisition editor reading your submission to frown or grimace and, instead, pass it up the chain with a recommendation to publish.What do acquisition editors for literary agents or publishing houses hope to see? What issues in a manuscript lead to rejection? The aim of Get It Published is reducing the chances of your story getting rejected.The eight lessons cover a wide range of topics: how to strengthen your writing, what weakens writing, what practices almost guarantee rejection. You will see what experienced, bestselling authors know that beginning writers don’t. You will see what published authors do that beginning writers don’t.The goal for the lessons is the same as the goal for your novel: Get It Published.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Strong Story Structure

Lecture 2 Strong Opening for your Novel

Section 2: Lecture 3

Lecture 3 Point Of View

Lecture 4 Engaging the Reader with Your Protagonist

Section 3: Lectures 5 and 6

Lecture 5 Author's Style

Lecture 6 Showing Not Telling

Section 4: Lessons 7 and 8

Lecture 7 Technical Details

Lecture 8 Acceptance Instead of Rejection

Beginning writers hoping to learn how to write a good novel.,Authors of a completed novel wanting to reduce reasons for rejection.