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AI and Creative Professions
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Fiction Books - Suspense and Secrets is All the Fun
By Aurora Nihit
Fiction books are amongst the most popular genres found in the writing world today. As you will know, writers of popular fiction books and novels are having a field day and making hay while the sun shines as they are seeing newer and newer horizons of popularity.
Crisp and Fresh Fiction Sells
Fiction undoubtedly is the main stay of contemporary writing these days. There's surely more than one thing that makes fiction well-liked and admired amongst readers. Besides being crisp and fresh, they include a lot of suspense and secrets that are embedded within the story to make it more enduring and interesting.
This type of fiction is trendier with writers of suspense and thriller novels. You can see this trend even with adventure novels where writers introduce a bit of intrigue and secrets to make the novel more interesting and appealing to a large section of readers.
Popular Fiction: Flush with suspense and secrets
Using suspense and secrets is getting more and more routine and common with a large number of new writers entering the writing circuit. Many are happy to see their novels published and well accepted amongst the general population, while others struggle to earn even a penny or a dime. Well, we are not here to discuss earnings, but filling up a fiction novel or a book with suspense and secrets will undoubtedly increase the readership base and the popularity index of novels or fiction books.
Many writers such as Agatha Christie, Dan Brown, J. K. Rowling, and others have successfully used the suspense element in their novels. Readers will surely have gone through popular suspense fiction like the Rainmaker, Along Came a Spider, Digital Fortress, The Bourne Identity, Jurassic Park, and many others.
Suspense - Adding a dash of flavour to Fiction
Suspense makes the novel interesting and the story attention grabbing. Suspense adds flavor to the story and makes the story gripping and hard to put down. Without suspense, many of the popular novels would lose their appeal and appear quite bland instead.
Suspense: Is there need of a formula?
Some writers believe that fiction books involving suspense can be written using a formula and the first thing that most staple suspense novels have formulated is the end. Most fiction books and suspense novels are written with a predetermined formula in mind. Writing a suspense novel usually includes determining the plot, the story, the characters, the various sub plots, the twists and the climax, and the ending.
There may be some disputes about this, but creating a plausible end first makes the writer more confident about the beginning and the rest of the story that follows to make up the body.
Suspense as the bait
Fiction books that use suspense as the bait usually keep the plot hidden as long as the story makes it possible. The suspense is only revealed as a sort of last resort because without revealing the suspense, the story cannot flow further. Moreover, there cannot be just one standard formula for suspense novels, so fiction writers use a variety of approaches to create a successful suspense novel. That's how suspense and secrets get embedded into fiction to create a popular and everlasting read.
Online Bookstore India - Infibeam.com is an exciting new online destination & community that focuses on selling Electronics, Home & Lifestyle products, Automobiles, Gifts, and a lot more at lowest prices and free shipping in India. Its latest announcement is Fiction Books Best Selling, at guaranteed lowest price.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Aurora_Nihit
Fiction books are amongst the most popular genres found in the writing world today. As you will know, writers of popular fiction books and novels are having a field day and making hay while the sun shines as they are seeing newer and newer horizons of popularity.
Crisp and Fresh Fiction Sells
Fiction undoubtedly is the main stay of contemporary writing these days. There's surely more than one thing that makes fiction well-liked and admired amongst readers. Besides being crisp and fresh, they include a lot of suspense and secrets that are embedded within the story to make it more enduring and interesting.
This type of fiction is trendier with writers of suspense and thriller novels. You can see this trend even with adventure novels where writers introduce a bit of intrigue and secrets to make the novel more interesting and appealing to a large section of readers.
Popular Fiction: Flush with suspense and secrets
Using suspense and secrets is getting more and more routine and common with a large number of new writers entering the writing circuit. Many are happy to see their novels published and well accepted amongst the general population, while others struggle to earn even a penny or a dime. Well, we are not here to discuss earnings, but filling up a fiction novel or a book with suspense and secrets will undoubtedly increase the readership base and the popularity index of novels or fiction books.
Many writers such as Agatha Christie, Dan Brown, J. K. Rowling, and others have successfully used the suspense element in their novels. Readers will surely have gone through popular suspense fiction like the Rainmaker, Along Came a Spider, Digital Fortress, The Bourne Identity, Jurassic Park, and many others.
Suspense - Adding a dash of flavour to Fiction
Suspense makes the novel interesting and the story attention grabbing. Suspense adds flavor to the story and makes the story gripping and hard to put down. Without suspense, many of the popular novels would lose their appeal and appear quite bland instead.
Suspense: Is there need of a formula?
Some writers believe that fiction books involving suspense can be written using a formula and the first thing that most staple suspense novels have formulated is the end. Most fiction books and suspense novels are written with a predetermined formula in mind. Writing a suspense novel usually includes determining the plot, the story, the characters, the various sub plots, the twists and the climax, and the ending.
There may be some disputes about this, but creating a plausible end first makes the writer more confident about the beginning and the rest of the story that follows to make up the body.
Suspense as the bait
Fiction books that use suspense as the bait usually keep the plot hidden as long as the story makes it possible. The suspense is only revealed as a sort of last resort because without revealing the suspense, the story cannot flow further. Moreover, there cannot be just one standard formula for suspense novels, so fiction writers use a variety of approaches to create a successful suspense novel. That's how suspense and secrets get embedded into fiction to create a popular and everlasting read.
Online Bookstore India - Infibeam.com is an exciting new online destination & community that focuses on selling Electronics, Home & Lifestyle products, Automobiles, Gifts, and a lot more at lowest prices and free shipping in India. Its latest announcement is Fiction Books Best Selling, at guaranteed lowest price.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Aurora_Nihit
Thursday, March 11, 2010
How to Plot a Novel from Watching a Movie
Basic Novel Plot using Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married, the Movie by Dee Stewart
How to Plot a Novel from Watching a Movie
How to Plot a Novel from Watching a Movie
Monday, March 1, 2010
The March Big Thrill webzine from ITW
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Type Casting
February 11, 2010
Espionage novelist Robert Ludlum once wrote a comic caper novel. It got published, but didn't do very well.
David Morrell's first novel was First Blood, the book that introduced John Rambo (in 1972). He followed it up with a series of books that were westerns, horror novels, etc., until his agent told him to pick a genre. He did, thrillers, and although he's occasionally dabbled in horror, he's pretty much been a thriller writer ever since.
WEB Griffin is known for huge, sprawling epic novels about World War II, by and large, but earlier in his career he wrote all sorts of things for kids under a variety of pseudonyms.
John Grisham, best known for writing legal thrillers, seems to have wandered off the reservation to write uplifting novels about family and sports.
Mitch Albom, still a sports columnist (I think) for the Detroit Free Press, started out writing books about sports before he wrote Tuesdays With Morrie to help with his former teacher's medical bills. I don't even know how to describe Albom's books--preachy, feel-good, inspirational novels and nonfiction books?
My guitar teacher and I were talking about Jimmy Buffett the other day. Buffett's songs are, by and large, wildly simple to play. Really. He never wanders much out of basic chord progressions, his riffs aren't terribly complicated. And although his mid-70s stuff feels like elevator music, his best stuff all rings of Margaritaville, a brand he's worked rather hard to protect over the years. And it's not lack of ambition that has kept him doing that, based on his empire of restaurants, beer, parrothead products, etc.
I'm often struck by how someone, writers, singers, actors, etc., hit it big in one area and then stay there. I think we often forget that Bruce Willis's big break was as a comic actor on a TV show.
Audiences, for all entertainment, generally want their entertainment to be predictable. No one seems particularly interested in Harrison Ford in a light comedy. George Clooney's efforts toward action hero--Batman, The Peacemaker--haven't been as successful as his Ocean's movies or as well-received as his more thoughtful political films (Michael Clayton is awesome, as is Goodnight and Good Luck."
Does it happen to writers?
Yeah, I think so. I've been dabbling in other things over the last couple years--middle grade and YA novels, sci-fi, slower mysteries--but my agent, my editors, and apparently the marketplace itself wants Derek Stillwater in a race-against-the-clock thriller.
Certainly Stephen King, even with variations, has delivered a "Stephen King book" time and again. We're just plain not seeing anything Mitch Albom-like or Jodi Picoult-like books out of King, although I'm sure he's capable of writing them. Hell, if you cut the ghosts out of Bag of Bones, you probably have a Jodi Picoult novel.
I think it's interesting that success tends to breed a narrowness of career. I haven't noticed a JK Rowling follow-up to The Deathly Hallows, although she was supposedly working on a mystery. Maybe she'll surprise us. Or maybe her publishers will just dig their heels in. It's hard to say.
What do you think?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
EVENT @ Southfield Public Library CSI: real life crime scene investigator presents!Feb 23 at 7:00 pm
CSI:Southfield @ the Southfield Public Library
Southfield, MI – Come to the Southfield Public Library on Tuesday, February 23 at 7:00 pm in the Meeting Room to meet a real life crime scene investigator from the Southfield Police Department.
For nearly a decade, the trendy network television drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has fascinated viewers with high-tech crime fighting tools and accomplished something many writers and authors have struggled to do – making science exciting! CSI Southfield will look through the lens of an experienced crime scene investigator and explore the relationship between real life forensic science and popular media's adaptation.
This program is presented in conjunction with Everyone's Reading Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow. Find out more information about Everyone's Reading at www.everyonesreading.info.
Southfield Public Library is located in the Southfield Municipal Complex, 26300 Evergreen Road. Visit the Library's Home Page at www.southfieldlibrary.org. For further information, please call the Guest Services Desk at 248.796.4224.
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Monday, January 4, 2010
The January Big Thrill webzine from International Thriller Writers Inc
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