How to Be a Writer: Secrets from the Inside

In this updated and expanded edition, Stewart Ferris uses his industry know-how to give you all the tips, tricks, and inside knowledge one needs to become a successful writer, covering all types of writing from books to scripts and beyond

This accessible and informative guide is packed with advice to equip writers with the skills they need to launch a writing career including using their "voice" as their USP, learning to love criticism, surprising solutions to writer's block, avoiding submission blunders, and using e-publishing to sell work. This book tackles both problems: it gets one writing, easily and painlessly guiding them through the process and divulges industry secrets that will help raise the quality of one's work to a professional level.