I'm CJ Lyons. And I'm a writer.... If you also need a twelve-step program to stop writing, then you've come to the right place. I don't like rules. I don't like people telling me what to do. I don't like complex formulas or graphs or charts that I have to consult because that's the "right way" to create a compelling story. So I've taken everything I've learned about the essence of good storytelling and I've distilled it all into a few simple concepts. Things so easy that by the time you've finished this book and practiced using these techniques, you'll be able to not only craft a great story but also to complete your novel. In fact, by the end, you'll be saying: Wow! This is so easy, it makes so much sense! I can use this every day I write... NOTE: I’ll be uploading parts of this how-to book every Thursday. If you’d like to buy the complete book it’s available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004XTWZA2 (and was previously published as No Rules, Just WRITE!) There's also a companion workbook available on NoRulesJustWrite.com ABOUT CJ: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-one novels, former pediatric ER doctor CJ Lyons has lived the life she writes about in her cutting edge Thrillers with Heart. Winner of the International Thriller Writers’ coveted Thriller Award, CJ has been called a "master within the genre" (Pittsburgh Magazine) and her work has been praised as "breathtakingly fast-paced" and "riveting" (Publishers Weekly) with "characters with beating hearts and three dimensions" (Newsday). Learn more about CJ's Thrillers with Heart at www.CJLyons.net

So, I was doing a critique tonight. And it was the person’s first book. And I was writing a bunch of the same things that I’ve written on a million other critiques since I started on Wattpad. And, it occurred to me that I keep giving people the same advice—advice that nobody gave me—and advice that beginner writer’s NEED. So I decided to put some of it down in a book, although I’m guessing most people won’t read it. Haha But the title pretty much says it all...

Ryan a glorified doctor and his parents ticket to infinite wealth and royal power, has a different perspective on life. He is betrothed to an heir apparent, Princess Diamonique of the exotic kingdom; Garviland. His rogue self takes over on the day of their wedding and he disowns it all to follow his passion, Doctors Without Boarders. (Practicing medicine, in different places in the world, with dire medical need.) This journey takes him to a poverty stricken part of the world. New experience, new people, new world. Love, the elusive emotion, presents itself in unexpected measures. This egotistical doctor, must now turn to the God of his beloved, if he wishes to ever have her back.

What if the Parable of the Good Samaritan happened during 9/11? What if the story of the Prodigal Son took place on the party island of Ibiza in Spain? What if the Parable of the Talents took place on a television reality show? When asked a question like "Who is my neighbor?," Jesus often answered with a story. He did this because humans often see themselves in stories better than they do in direct answers. For instance, the universal situation of rescuing someone who is in desperate need on the side of the road somewhere, far from home, resonates with people down through the ages. In Stories for Ears to Hear, Tincan Caldwell puts a modern spin on the parables of Jesus in an attempt to help the reader imagine what the heart of these stories would look like today. In his famous challenge before telling a parable, Jesus would encourage "those with ears to hear" to listen to his tales of prodigal sons, lost coins, victimized travelers on the road, and elaborate parties with no guests. In telling these stories, Jesus brought the sensibilities of heaven to the very real dusty highways and hills of his homeland. In re-imagining these classic parables (the parable of the good Samaritan set against the backdrop of the 9/11 tragedy, the parable of the unmerciful servant moved to a struggling record store, the parable of the talents reimagined in the world of a network reality show), Caldwell challenges readers to re-examine how heaven wants to invade the everyday stuff of life, like roads, parties, wayward sons, and the foundations we build our lives upon. That makes for a great story any day...

For fans of the Harry Potter Universe, LOST, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. A tale of immigrants, Eternals, a little girl and the fate of the world... The Water Chronicles series uses a "parallel" storytelling structure in which two separate-but-related plot lines, taking place in radically different eras, Ireland and the Endless Stream picks up right after the events of its preceding book in the series, India Rose and the Eternals, which saw a parallel set of stories being told. The first was about a group of immigrants coming to America at the turn of the last century on a secret mission by their order to confront one of their own (a certain Thomas Edison) about his reckless exposure of the secret that they guard. The Station Master (the code name for Leonardo da Vinci, who is alive and well hundreds of years after his supposed death) and his apprentice Finn are chased across the ocean by those who desire to discover the source of the long life "The Eternals" have.

A book chock full of information and tips for writers at every stage of their writing process from concept to publishing. © E A Carter 2017 All Rights Reserved.

For fans of the Harry Potter universe, LOST and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: What if that really was the Mona Lisa that India Rose saw walking around her small, Maine town? What if her father's innocent bedtime stories of hidden mysteries below the river and secret identities of ordinary citizens were more than mere fairy tales? Why did her essay on her town's history make a few select town officials so angry? And why was young Finn and his master (who bears more than a passing resemblance to Leonardo da Vinci) sent across the sea to the new world on a mission to protect "the secret" that his order has been charged to guard? Told over the course of almost one hundred years and multiple continents, India Rose and the Eternals tells the parallel stories, told in concurrent chapters, of twelve-year-old India Rose and two-hundred-and twelve-year-old Finnegan Rufus Magondolovich (don't ask him about his middle or last names) who are both struggling to understand the upheaval in their own little worlds. Add to this the sinister Man In The Brown Hat and his shadowy organization, who are chasing Finn and his master across the globe, an oil spill that threatens India's coastal town, a stern Head Librarian who seems to have it in for India, and India Rose and the Eternals packs enough adventure and hairpin turns to keep readers turning pages. With strong themes of using your gifts and abilities for the good of others and the rise, use and abuse of technology, India Rose and the Eternals is the opening salvo in the expansive Water Chronicles universe, a series that takes contemporary notions of history and re-examines them.

These are the stories of people facing impossible odds. Surviving suicide attempts. Overcoming overdoses. Learning to trust in other people after being betrayed. Learning to love after being hurt by everyone they loved. These are the stories of just a few of the works of God. These are the stories of the United Church, the Body of Christ, of any person who wants to show that God is stronger than the cold world that we live in. We need YOU to help us by sending us your story. Together, we can make a statement against the whole world, that we will not falter or fall, and that the same glimpse of love that has saved our lives can do the same to anyone, and everyone, who asks.

With a stubborn faith and a longing heart, Ruth leaves her home and everything she has ever known to follow her mother-in-law to the promised land where she encounters challenges on every side.

A young princess from Thebes. A Roman slave destined to serve his master for the rest of his life. Two people living completely opposite lives, on their own side of the world. But what happens when their worlds collide? [Highest rank: #33 in Historical Fiction]