Novel Writing With Robin Rice: How To Write a Blockbuster

Robin Rice continues her discussion on "So You Want To Write A Book" with an updated version of her take on Al Zuckerman's first of five tips from his book "Writing The Blockbuster Novel." Learn how creating high stakes for your characters and plot push you to the head of the class!

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[NevilleRhysBarnes]

Zuckerman is good. I also recommend James Frey, "How to Write a Damn Good Novel". One of the most useful books on writing I ever found was Orson Scott Card's, "Character and Viewpoint".

[TheRobinRice]

Thanks so much... I love Character and Viewpoint too!

[TheRobinRice]

You bet! More coming soon... Chapter eight of Mayden is now up, for those reading along with the tips...

[msmcmullen1]

I have an Idea for writing. Some of you may have heard "Don't let your imagination go wild, have a beginning, middle, and an end before you write your story or novel, WELL NO! You let your imagination go wild and free. Then the ideas will be more clear in or head. Then it will be easier and easier to re-write and re-write yours story (and faster to). So to sum it up. let your imagination run free then work with the ideas, then re-write.

[bryngOneOn]

can you tell me how to judge if a book is any good by reviews on line. at the present i go for authors signed to a major publishing house and only read reviews from well known newspapers and magazines, but nowadays anyone can knock up little newsletter magazine , get afriend or 2 to write a review and then put that up as a good review. i buy books from shops where i can have a quick read b4 buyin, is there a way to do this on line so i dont get tricked into buyin some self published tat?

[RedneckYachtClubber]

I'm kind of afraid of typing mine up, I've read MANY people's books and they're great...do I need college training for all that? I just need to know some things like how can I start good, as it's a fantasy novel about an ugly jester who becomes a hero, and falls in love with the brave, independent princess who thinks he's awesome.

Anything quick you can say for me?

[TheKrackable]

Thanks, you've given me help... really

[unholyghost313]

Love your vids i wanna write my own book i have the half the story line but don't know how to get them down on to a book if u have any tips for me that will be nice and if u wanna know what im writeing i can send you a e-mail.

TY

[The2ndPuccini]

I've been watching your vids and they're realy helpfull!

I have a question i hope you could help me with =)

I'm writing a book myself, i'm only at the first chapter, though i got i layout of what i want and what schould happen in what chaper and what the characters should be like. But everytime i continue writing i feel like i'm focussing more on the readers than what i want to write. Now for my question ^^ could you tell me the balance between these 2? =) (ps. sorry for my english im dutch)

[sxcthang1231]

hi I am a 14 year girl. i have always loved books i love using my imagination when reading and i have decided to start writing a book. only a few of my close friends know and my teacher and they think that its really good that im doin this. im kind of doing it in private my parents dont know. i never realised how fun writing is. i have a very lively imagination which makes for good chapters. watching thses videos are really helping me along so thank you very very much

[lilmichael212]

love your advice god bless L.O.V.E and im writing a novel but its more of a book cuz its shorter then 180 pages but im only 13, can u give me publishing advice cus of my old age

[AmyK007]

Thank you :) I simply call it "Divine Dictation." The story has come from somewhere else and I am simply transcribing it. I saw the whole story as a movie in my head one afternoon when my mind was clear and I was feeling relaxed. I've never written a thing in my life, so I know this powerful imagery has been given to me for a reason. Thanks for your kind words.

[MeetTaylorMorris]

Yes, it is by Al Zuckerman, Writing The Blockbuster Novel, get it at Amazon...