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Jacqui's Book: From Start to Finish

'Everything you need is here. Start making money from your writing - now.'

Tips on:

How to get published

How to win writing competitions

How to submit your manuscripts

Where to submit your manuscripts

And much, much more...

'An indispensable guide for writers who are serious about selling their work.'

 

Jacqui's book From Start to Finish contains all the ingredients you'll need to write stories that sell. Insights from a well-published author and experienced editor are coupled with in-depth guidance on how to polish your work professionally, ready for successful submission to a publisher. With Jacqui's help, already six of her clients have been offered publishing contracts this year. Let someone who knows tell you how to make that all-important breakthrough...

CHAPTERS:

Introduction

Beginnings and Endings

Characterisation

Dialogue

Viewpoint

Plotting

Understatement

Showing, not Telling

The Senses

Ideas

Style

Research

Pruning and Polishing

Preparing manuscripts for submission

How to Win a Writing Competition

Markets for Short Stories

Markets for Novels

FROM START TO FINISH

by Jacqui Bennett

EXCERPT:

How to Win a Writing Competition

This isn't quite as hard as you think - honestly! One simple glance at the Competitions pages on my website, or a little research in writing magazines, will tell you that there are usually plenty of competitions running at any given time. So, to begin with, you nearly always have an ample supply. Once you've found one that suits you, take a little to time to plan what you're going to write about. Most competitions will give you a theme or a genre in which to write. The knack is in putting yourself in the judges' shoes for a moment before you begin. For example, if the theme is 'The Day Things Went Wrong', you can be pretty certain that the majority of submissions will concern tales of woe in one form or another and, after a time, these will all begin to sound the same to the judges. You need to write something that will stand out from the rest, something that will attract the judge's attention and will keep your story at the forefront of his mind. The first thing you thought of was almost definitely not the best. Try to think laterally - think different. Why not write a happy story?

Let me tell you how competition judges make their decisions...

If you want to be published, you should get this book now.

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Simply enter your credit card details when asked - and you can download straight away, quickly, safely and easily. Your card will be billed just £3.00 and an immediate receipt will be emailed to you. If you would prefer to pay by cheque, email me now. Alternatively, let me know if you're not sure about downloading and I will send you From Start to Finish by email attachment in the format of your choice, once I have received your payment.

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Readers' comments:

'So clear and easy to understand .'

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'What I have learned from you has proved invaluable.'

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'I was so excited that I was downloading the book at gone midnight last night. I have only read it through once but already I can see it is going to be everything I hoped for. I already have some ideas as to how to improve my stories and I now plan to sit down with your book and really get the grey cells going. I am sure it is going to prove invaluable to so many aspiring writers.'

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'Much easier to understand than other books on writing.'

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'I can't believe how much I've learned from it already. You are offering a valuable service to the writing community.'

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Options exist to download From Start to Finish in any of the following formats (but if you can't read any of these, contact me and I will provide another):

Microsoft Word

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CLICK HERE TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD

Simply enter your credit card details when asked - and you can download straight away, quickly, safely and easily. Your card will be billed just £3.00 and an immediate receipt will be emailed to you. If you would prefer to pay by cheque, email me now. Alternatively, let me know if you're not sure about downloading and I will send you From Start to Finish by email attachment in the format of your choice, once I have received your payment.

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