Why Write a Synopsis?

There is something terrifyingly daunting about writing and sending a succinct 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 (and [...]

“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

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. [...]