Jim Green

Galvanize Your Creative Writing with Whole-Brained Thinking

One morning in early August 2010 I awoke to irrefutable verification that I had entered the first day of my 80 th year on this planet. Despite the relentless march of time I am still writing, painting watercolors , creating and running online businesses. But above all, writing. As a right brain dominant person I recall that my far off schooldays were absolute torture; endless boredom... (posted by Jim Green 1 year 174 days ago.)

Magical Things Happen When You Aspire to Best Seller Status!

When you aspire to best seller status before you write a single word of your book, magical things really do happen; phenomenal occurrences such as. You multiply the odds one hundredfold of having a proposal for publication accepted; You open the door to a myriad of residual and incremental earning opportunities. Here is an early example from my own experience I wrote Starting... (posted by Jim Green 1 year 201 days ago.)

Unique Video Technique for New Book Launches

In these difficult times for the book trade it is good practice to assist your publisher's promotional activity in any new traditionally published book launch. You can achieve this online with a roll-up program consisting of: Web page Article(s) Email campaign Social media using Facebook, My Space, Twitter, Squidoo, Hub Pages, etc But if you add video to the mix you can link to all of... (posted by Jim Green 1 year 215 days ago.)

Why Project Researches Are Your Stock-in-Trade

You should never ever dispose of your research material. Why shouldn't you do that? Quite simply because you never know when it might come in handy; the questions to which you found answers for your first project will return again and again in different guises when you set about researching on new book concepts. Never dispose of any research material; store it away securely for future... (posted by Jim Green 2 years 66 days ago.)

Commissioning Your Characters to Take Over the Plot

When the first and crucial chapter of your book has been put to bed and your scenario is in position, you will do something so radical that it might scare the pants off you: Commission Your Characters to Take Over the Plot… Look upon your plot or central theme as the engine room and the characters you have invented as technicians maintaining it and driving the engine. You will have already recorded... (posted by Jim Green 2 years 115 days ago.)

Pre-Planning: The Key to Success in Writing Cutting Edge Fiction

Over the years of writing reams of fiction and non-fiction I have collected more than a few valuable wrinkles: finding ideas, researching, sequential framing, compiling gilt-edge proposals, empowering text with bestselling potential, and most important of all: getting published. This aggregated nous has resulted in 30 traditionally published works that sell offline and online in... (posted by Jim Green 4 years 189 days ago.)