Harry Blake's Workshop - Getting Started

Turning your writing into wealth only requires you to continue doing what you love. The help that you can acquire here, in the Harry Blake Workshop, is Free, but you will be working from one of our books which can be downloaded cheaply to your computer screen. We take take things step by step and will allow you to copy the first chapter of Conspiracy of Eagles for this assessment. But what you have to do, is to change the characters the dialogue and the plot, just retain the basic outline and be astonished with what you come up with. When you have completed it, just send me your work for my Free honest assessment and we will take it a step further.

You may ask what will this exercise achieve? Well, to start with, I can guarantee that this simple process will inspire you with a story for your own book...no more worrying about a storyline. You need a topic which, if you take my advice, will be from your own life experiences. Perhaps choose a place. Somewhere in the world that you've visted like I did, where you have experiened vivid recollections. When you get involved in this simple exercise, you will feel sure that you can go one better than I did, and that will be great. Go for it.

The Middle East can conjure up romance and adventure, with terrorism a very close third. Select a place you had stayed, a place you know well. The more you know about your topic, the easier it will be for you to write about.

If you look at Jericho Light one of the downloads I recommended, you will see that the first page content reveals the part of the world you have chosen, the location, characters and their objective. Everything in one page. You should try and attain this for your reader, since your initial information sets the scene for the entire story.

You may only begin with a simple beginning, unable to come up with a storyline at this stage, but as long as you make a start, so much the better. Soon you will come up with an idea, you want to write about. Terrorism in the Middle East is a topical subject so lets go.

At this stage you may not know about your characters. They will come in time, but you must get your main character sorted out first, before you go further. Don't worry if you are unsure, you will be making changes throughout your work...and its part of the fun.

Follow the style of the chapter. I don't mind if you use it for your first attempt at writing, changing what you want here and there. But get to it. Type out the words, 'Chapter 1' and you've become a writer. You may find that your ideas, completely different from mine, are much better.

A book title will enter your mind, but I feel sure that it will change as you progress. Just remember to keep a back-up of your work. Its no fun when you lose 300 pages from a manuscript, I assure you.

Getting started means the planting of a seed. Keep thinking, writing and amending, to make it grow. Now you have decided upon the book genre being a political thriller we can really move it. You have the title and you also have a glimmer of an idea who your character will be. Read some more of the book you have downloaded and then find a quiet corner and think about it before changing everything for your own preferences. Its easy to get started and, once you have, you won't be able to stop.

STEP ONE: Download a copy of Conspiracy of Eagles and use Chapter 1.