Saturday, September 4, 2010

Join Nina Munteanu in a Free Writing Webinar!

Join Nina Munteanu, acclaimed author and writing coach, for a FREE Webinar through Writer’s Digest University on how to improve your writing and succeed in getting published.
Nina joins journalist and editor Vernon Oikle on “Toolkit Talks“, a conversation in which Nina shares some of her best tips on how to get published. Nina answers some commonly asked questions provided by [...]

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Why Write a Synopsis?

There is something terrifyingly daunting about writing and sending a succinct and compelling summary of your novel packaged in just a few pages. I had a right to be terrified. In some ways the synopsis is the hardest thing for a novelist to write. Yet it is the first thing most publishers and agents want [...]

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Tantalizing Titles

March 25, 2009 by Nina Munteanu  
Filed under Fiction Writing, Writing Tips

Write a Story Title That Bites
 

 
Think of the title to your story as the ultimate headline. It’s the first thing an editor reads of your work. Titles are often used by one reader to describe the story to another reader. According to Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, author of The Crystal Rose, “titles can determine whether a [...]

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“The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!” By Nina Munteanu

The ABC’s of Good Writing, One Letter at a Time The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now! launched today at Pixl Press and virtually all over the world with digital PDF and Print versions available for order and download . At a Pixl Press party today, attended by family and friends, and in which copious amounts of sushi and green tea were consumed, not to mention a huge Tuxedo Cake, Nina Munteanu—that’s me—was overheard saying: “I borrowed from the wisdom of many authorities on th

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The Novelist: Sensual Writing

 

We have five major senses and several minor ones we aren’t even consciously aware of. The major ones include sight, hearing, smelling, touch, and taste.

In the April 2000 issue of Fiction Writer Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander, tells us that we are biologically and psychologically designed “for intense experience in a richly sensual world. [...]

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