Practice. Polish. Persist. Your writing journey can take you many places: hiking through steep mountains, traversing unknown territory, hurdling both roadblocks and rejections. Even the siren song of fame and fortune can distract you from your true purpose: to express yourself in an authentic and meaningful way, and to share your words with others. A Writer's Guide to Persistence is your road map through the rugged terrain of the writer's path. You'll discover advice and techniques for cultivating a fruitful, deeply meaningful writing life by practicing your craft, polishing your work, and persisting through even the toughest challenges. Inside you'll find: Practical ways to balance writing with the rest of your life: taming your busy schedule, increasing your productivity, and committing to a writing practice Advice for developing authentic work: finding your voice, writing bravely, and breaking the blocks to creative flow Methods for stretching your skills through craft and revision Thoughts on pushing through rejection and doubt, submitting strong, nourishing yourself to avoid burnout, and keeping your mind and body fit Filled with journaling exercises and much-needed motivation, as well as insights from best-selling writers in a variety of genres, A Writer's Guide to Persistence will help you find the joy and purpose inherent in a writer's life. Your journey to publication and success may take a lifetime, but you can sow the rewards of writing with every step. "A compassionate and intelligent guide for any writer who's just starting out or one who needs the understanding and encouragement of a great writing coach. Rosenfeld offers practical solutions for every concern, from how to find the time to write to getting through writer's block." --Patricia V. Davis, best-selling author

Take a Deep Dive into Plot and Scene and Improve Your Writing Whether you're planning your first novel or have already written a first draft, you need to master the concepts of plot and scene to truly realize your story's potential. Writing Deep Scenes teaches you how to write strong, layered, and engaging scenes--the secret to memorable, page-turning plots. It's filled with practical tools for building layers and nuance into your scenes, employing the right scene types at the right junctures, and developing a profound understanding of how plot and scene intertwine. Inside you'll learn: How scenes are comprised of three key layers: action, emotion, and theme. How to recognize each layer and weave them seamlessly into a scene. How to develop an intricate relationship between the action and emotion in every scene. How thematic imagery embedded in scenes increases a story's tension and contributes to the story's meaning. Using contemporary examples from a variety of genres, Writing Deep Scenes provides an effective method for plotting at the scene level. Use these techniques and enrich your fiction and memoirs with page-turning suspense and pathos, and explore new depths in every story you write.

Of all the elements of fiction-plot, dialogue, character, etc.-point of view might be the most misunderstood, yet the most critical, to telling an effective story. In this new book, Jordan Rosenfeld makes POV as compelling and exciting as creating characters and developing plots by recasting it as a way to explore characterization in an intimate way, and-dare we say it-making POV sexy. By mastering point of view, writers aren't just learning the basic tenets of "first-person," "second-person" and so on; they're discovering new ways to create intimacy between reader and character, and capture readers' minds and hearts in the process. This book transforms dull, didactic explanations of point of view by offering a system of character cues-specific behaviors, sensory perceptions, dialogue, and visual imagery-and breaks down character emotion into two easy-to-understand "levels"-Surface Feelings and Subset Feelings. It also offers exercises for the writer to practice test-driving each point of view for a fully rounded, multisensory, layered emotional experience. The book provides fresh examples from best-selling literature to illustrate the various techniques. Readers connect with characters whose senses they can experience, whose minds they can dive inside, and whose emotions they can truly feel. Writing the Intimate Character shows writers how to do all three.