by Rob Worth | 18 Jul 2021 | Writing tips
Worried the 1st draft of your book is bad? Worry no more. You can stop fretting because your book is bad. “The first draft of anything is shit.” — Ernest Hemingway The first draft is something to be incredibly proud of. Most people never get there. You’ve scaled the...
by Rob Worth | 18 Jul 2021 | Marketing
3 questions your book blurb must answer for a reader to buy Your blurb is another stage in selling the book. No more, no less. The back cover or book description copy, called a blurb, is sales copy. It comes after your title, after your cover, and is the next step to...
by Rob Worth | 16 Jul 2021 | Writing tips
With my years of blogs, I have a book. Not yet you don’t. Recently, I found an author with a book they had made from the blogs they had written over the years. The blogs are a treasure trove of stories, insights and lessons they had learned. You could dive in anywhere...
by Rob Worth | 15 Jul 2021 | Writing tips
3 examples of making sentences clearer and smoother Three examples of making sentences read better. They are taken from a line edit of a book I worked on recently. The main aims are clarity and smooth reading. Example 1 Organizations are complex, while their models...
by Rob Worth | 14 Jul 2021 | Structure, Writing tips
Don’t crunch gears between chapters – Read your reader’s mind … and those are the lessons from chapter 7. (Reader: Wow, interesting!) (Flip page…) Welcome to chapter 8, which about something completely unconnected to chapter 7. (Reader: Are there some...
