Power Up Your Fiction: 125 Tips and Techniques for Next-Level Writing

Competent fiction is not enough.

Today, if you want to make fiction a career, your writing has to have that added “something” that turns browsers into readers and readers into fans.

This book will show you how to do it. In a practical, easy-to-understand style, #1 bestselling writing teacher James Scott Bell offers a packed tool chest of “extras”— tips and techniques that will kick your fiction into higher gear. Such

Plotting for pantsers, and pantsing for plotters.A trick to get you through Act 2.How to craft memorable secondary characters (the “spice” of fiction).The 3 types of opening lines.How to transition from scene to scene.3 easy ways to strengthen a scene.The right use of flashbacks.How to write a fight scene.Dialogue as action.How to freshen details.A checklist for revision.Plus, never-before-published entries from Bell’s personal writing notebook, full of craft secrets he discovered or developed over 30 years of writing and teaching.

“I expect Jim’s teaching to inform my writing for years.” – Jerry B. Jenkins, 7-time #1 New York Times bestselling writer.