If you don’t want your book sitting unread on the shelf, gathering dust, you need to know how to write captivating stories.
Times have changed.
Readers are no longer impressed with fancy words, long sentences, and the old literary style. Like in a movie, they want to be caught in characters’ plights, seeing the event unfold moment-by-moment, the same way they experience life.
News is boring.
News that tells what happened is not made more exciting by increased focus on violence and bloodshed. Unless we can identify with who the characters are and what they want, we have no reason to care. When people are bored, they cancel their newspaper subscription or change the TV channel to something interesting. And they put books on the shelf without reading them.
Success is an invisible target unless you know where to aim.
Writing a book is tough enough, but with tens of millions of books already on the market, reaching strangers and making them want to buy your book is even more challenging. Be successful at that, and you might not want to celebrate yet. The most important question is whether people will read the book after buying it.
Your writing efforts haven’t been wasted.
Our great Western author Louis L’Amour once said, “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” The first draft is never good enough. Now you need to go back, find the weaknesses, and make your story more captivating. Then, people will read it—and they might tell a friend.
Don’t forget to bring your pen and pad to the Roaring Writers seminar “How to Write Captivating Stories,” because you’ll want to take lots of notes as Frank Ball presents a treasure of how-to information that will keep readers turning the pages to the very end of your book .
