PACKAGE 4 Book Development and Style

Refine your writing style and avoid common writing mistakes to produce a professional-level manuscript

Book development and style helps you avoid common mistakes that writers make which frustrates readers and publishers.

As an author, you are expected to present publishers with a polished, professional-level manuscript every time. Your manuscript has to not only fulfil industry-standard technical criteria – such as word count and formatting – but also demonstrate originality and express your unique voice and style as a writer.

This means ensuring your book manuscript is free from grammatical errors, plot holes, character inconsistencies and detail omissions. It means avoiding predictability from beginning to end and making every word count. It means using cliches, slang and other literary devices effectively, not excessively, to establish your personal style.

In publishing, this process is called book development. It’s complex, it’s challenging, and it’s just as important as writing the draft manuscript. But in this book development and editing package, we’ll guide you through every step.

If you want to understand the common writing mistakes to avoid and learn how successful authors develop their books with style and originality, this package is for you.

Focus on common writing mistakes to avoid.

What you’ll learn in Package 4: Book Development and Style.

The Book Development and Style package is part four in our Module 1 Bundle – the first instalment of our Ultimate Blueprint for Successful Publishing course. It’s designed to empower you with the knowledge and skills you need to develop and edit your manuscript into an original unforgettable book.

Package 4 focuses on common writing mistakes to avoid and a range of editing techniques and style guidelines that help authors maximise the impact of their story.

Sessions in this package

Common writing mistakes to avoid

Learn to avoid the preventable mistakes other writers make that frustrate readers to ensure your manuscript meets publisher standards.

Effective use of cliches and slang

How to use cliches and slang effectively to convey meaning and express your unique voice as a writer.

How to avoid predictability and increase suspense in your book.

Avoiding predictability

How to increase tension, suspense and drama in your book without recycling overused and predictable events.

How to begin a book and write a good ending

Learn what captivates readers at the beginning of a book and how to write a good ending that’s memorable for your readers.

Trimming the fat by avoiding unnecessary words.

Trimming the fat – avoiding unnecessary words

How to rid your manuscript of unnecessary words that detract from its power.

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