Character dialogue is one of the six essential story elements that isn't always needed but can really enhance a story when included in a short story or novel. Dialogue is more than just chit-chat or verbal communication, but it allows readers to know more about characters' fears, desires, inner worlds, motivations, and personalities within a fictional story aside from what role they play, what they do, or what physically look like on the surface. Most writers refer to charact

Book marketing is the hardest part for many beginner self-published authors after releasing their first books because it requires them to sell something and step out of the comfort zones of their creative writing cocoons. Other writers who aren't too fond about it may think it's boring or time-consuming. Nonetheless, while book marketing does take hard work, knowing the secret sauce of it can make it a whole lot easier and even more fun. It can also be helpful to know the fun

Second-person point-of-view is the least common point-of-view used in fiction, and mostly present in poetry, self-help non-fiction books, educational textbooks, instructional writing, or interactive narratives. It's also the most intimate and immediate, merging the reader with the narrative written text. As there are with first-person , third-person limited , and third-person omniscient , there are certain key points that are important when using this rare particular point-of