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    Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist
    Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist
    Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist
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    Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist

    By JULIUS tHOMPSON

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    During my years at Evening at Emory, I helped students fine tune their skills in all stages of the writing process: from first draft to the day of publication. This guide, co-authored by my friend and editor, Dennis De Rose, presents you with a set of tools to help you address issues such as developing captivating scenes, creating vivid descriptive specific details, living in the setting, editing and grammar and other crucial elements to help you create a successful novel.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJULIUS tHOMPSON
    Release dateAug 5, 2015
    ISBN9781310508141
    Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist
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    JULIUS tHOMPSON

    Award Winning Author Julius Thompson grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York and attended Bushwick High School. The sixties in Brooklyn was an era that had a personality, a feel, and a life-force that changed a generation. Mr. Thompson felt this energy and experienced these fires of social change.

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      Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist - JULIUS tHOMPSON

      Jumpstarting Your Inner Novelist

      By

      JE Thompson

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 JE Thompson

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      "Keep Writing

      Keep Believing

      Never Give Up On Your Dreams!"

      Table of Contents

      From The Editor’s Desk

      Musings, Thoughts and Goals for the Budding Author!

      More Testimonials

      One Writer’s Journey to Writing Success!

      Authors must create their own Writing Style!

      How to Choose a Point of View in Your Novel?

      Establish Setting Early in Your Novel

      Building Characters: Fill Out a Character Resume!

      How to Write Subplots Without Losing the Reader!

      How Important is Good Grammar?

      Editing Do’s and Don’ts, Some Tricks and Tips

      Bonus Thoughts for Authors!

      Is Finding a literary Agent an impossible task?

      Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You!

      From The Editor’s Desk

      I became acquainted with Julius as he was completing the third book of his Pilgrim trilogy, The Ghost of Atlanta. I was excited when he asked me to edit this book; I had a good feeling about him and his work. I talked to him at length about the book and over time we became a writing team, a writer and an editor working together to make his book the best it could be.

      Our close working relationship, riddled with constant give-and-take communication, paid off when The Ghost of Atlanta won the Readers Favorite gold award for best fiction. During that time, Julius asked me to re-edit the first two books in the trilogy, A Brownstone in Brooklyn and Philly Style and Philly Profile. I did that while vacationing in Australia. About one year after that, Julius requested that I edit his new YA fiction, Purple Phantoms, a paranormal fiction about two things that he loves , basketball and his students. The title was later changed to Phantoms of Rockwood. I eagerly await the chance to edit his fifth novel, Stormy Winds.

      My wife, Carla, and I had the privilege to meet Julius at a writer’s conference in Georgia, not too far from Atlanta. At first glance, I saw a man in a nice suit, but

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