Tips for Authors - Anita Nair

 

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“If there is no sense of resolution to write a book, it is never going to happen”

1)      Have a sense of resolve : Life is the greatest teacher. There are stories everywhere. Identify and look at the potential.

2)      Let the idea germinate in your head: Let your excitement transfer into passion that drives the story.

3)      Keep writing your ideas in your notebook: Keep going back to exciting ideas, and cross check what you write.

4)      Before you write down, identify your genre and form.

5)      Know the 5 corner stone:

a.       Plot

b.       Structure

c.       Characters 

d.       Dialogue – time, period, style

e.       Setting

Any piece of imagination becomes credible and real when it's grounded in observed reality. 

6)      Research

7)      Know how to conclude – open ended. Every story is born with a conflict and the conflict has to be resolved one way or the other.

8)      Be Disciplined. Do not talk about your book, until you have almost finished. Write 400 words a day, every 6 days for a year and your book is ready.

9)      Change font and see little problems and clean up before presenting the final manuscript

10)   Title sometimes suggest itself. Listen and write it down. Working title can be different from actual.

11)   Write powerful, honest story, that will stand the test of time. Remember C(S)ensorship.

12)   While presenting for publishing have

a.       Have informative, detailed and solid synopsis.

b.       Good covering letter

c.       Sample chapter, be specific

 An editor is like a jeweler,  who helps polish the diamond, in this case the book. 

13)   Create stage for self. Do book reading. It is when the book come out that the writer becomes an author.

" You have little time and so much to know, grab this quick read. It would not disappoint you."

" At a fraction of the cost , that you would pay for your today's swiggy order,  but that would stay with you for a lifetime. " 

14)   Nothing sells a book like word of mouth

15)   You need lot of patience

16)   Transmit what audience things and leave a message in their heart and not mind.