The Real Letters

Until this moment you have not know that you had no absolutely clue your preschool teachers lied to you.  The alphabet goes ABDCE. No joke. It stands for Action, Background, Development, Climax, Ending.  In short, that is your plot. Drag in your readers by showing them a bright, sudden sense of Action (or something extremely unusual)   so that the audience will want more. The “more” you give them is the Background, the why’s, the who’s, and the childhood stories of you character without giving all their background away, spread the rest throughout the book. Development is slow suspense and added and mounted Action until you reach the Climax, which isn’t only one scene, but a whole sense that stretches throughout a whole chapter maybe. Ending is just the denouement, the wrapping up of the story, where all (unless more will come) sub-plots, loose ends, and questions are answered.

Words....oh the horrid things.

Even if you don't write, even if you don't like to read, you know that books, fiction, non-fiction, whatever

genre, have words. That's fairly obvious. But what words, my dear reader is essential. My current novel-in-

progress(NIP)  is set in 1700's. With a good dose of Pirates. So problem is, as a Christian, I can't have my

foul mouthed pirates curse. I don't want to set that example, and frankly don't really want to cuss myself.

However, after exhaustive research, I learned people, and most certainly heartless, cold-blooded pirates in

1749 did not say "oh my gosh," or many of the shortcuts so helpful in today's world.  So What am I to do?

Curse or Christ?

I decided on no cursing, but making it known to the reader that Person A is unhappy in a way that uses facial

expressions,  breakable things being broken, and silence treatments. Anything that doesn't stray from their

character but doesn't make the Lord flinch whenever I write an angry scene.

Any thoughts on a clean, angry scene?

Post below :)

Google And God

I am a Christian. I read the Bible, and actually enjoy it. I'd gone to 2nd grade Sunday School class all my second grade year and memorized the verses. However,I cannot tell you half of what I learned. But what I researched on Google for my book. Every.Word.I.Know. But can I say the same for the Bible I say I love? The honest answer is no. I spend more time analyzing what my main character of my own book is going to do in chapter four, scene three than what Jesus did, The main charter of God's Word did in the fourth book and third chapter of the Bible. Sad. And Hypocritical of me.  So if you're reading this to hope to gain supreme knowledge on your upcoming book(no promises) the advice I'll give you now is research in  your Bible and research on the web for your book.