Story and Meaning in Creating a Book In my work as a ghostwriter, I quite often come across situations where a person has either a clear story they want to tell or a deep understanding of the meanings they want to convey to the future reader of their book. This is exactly where the craft…
What Is a Business Book? One of the most popular directions in modern literature is the business book. They get commissioned quite often, because they can hold an enormous — and completely varied — body of material. Promoting yourself or your business. Systematizing all the skills and achievements you’ve built up. Drawing some kind of…
A Chance to Live Another Role This is a rather intriguing idea, all in all. To place yourself into another world in a different capacity, yet remain yourself. People come to me as a ghostwriter with this kind of request fairly often, and I almost always take on such work with great pleasure, because, as…
We’ve already talked about all the main components of a book, and we have one last one remaining. What has to be here, and what is it about at all? It seems, by the plot, everything has already happened. What else is there to write about? A Soft Exit It was obvious that the reader…
Weight and Dynamics Usually this part of the book is marked by great activity and high temperature. And here, categorically, there can be nothing superfluous. Not even a hint of it. In the main body, a small amount of the superfluous can be forgiven. But the climax demands a ground burned clean by merciless fire…
In the previous articles, the topics of the opening and the setup were laid out. Now it’s the main body’s turn. This is the largest component of the book, both in volume and in the events that happen inside it. Generally, the main body is regarded as something big — a place where you can…
For anyone who’s even slightly familiar with writing, there’s the classic structure: setup, development, climax, resolution. There are plenty of people who disagree with this scheme. They call it primitive and add a great quantity of points, sub-points, and other intricately specified details. In their desire to show the truly-true structure of a book, these…
Almost everyone who plans to try their hand at writing runs into the same thing: they don’t know how to do it. A perfectly normal state for anyone trying something new. Drawing on my experience writing my own books and on the literature I’ve written as a ghostwriter, I’m putting together a series of articles…
For many beginning writers, a good opening for a book turns out to be very difficult — sometimes outright impossible. One Hundred Percent Ready? It seems like everything is in place. The core of the book is there. The knowledge and the thoughts you want to convey to readers have taken shape. All that’s left…
There’s a question every writer hears sooner or later: “Do you have a plan?” A client comes to a writer and asks whether they can be given a plan for the book they want commissioned. In general terms, the writer answers — but rarely with the kind of concrete detail the client is hoping for….
