EPISODE 14 - USING CHARACTERS PROFESSIONS IN UNUSUAL WAYS

HOW CAN A CHARACTER'S PROFESSION WORK FOR ME AS A WRITER?

Selecting professions for your characters, and deciding how they would act under a given set of circumstances, is one of the most important decisions a fiction writer can make. 

• Will they respond in a way normally expected of someone trained to do what they do? 

• Will they go “over-the-top” or perform in a scared or devious manner? 

Each reaction might become the basis for an entirely different story. However, once the theme choice is made, even if they act strangely, unexpectedly or inappropriately, the character still operates under the umbrella of their profession, whether it is positive or negative.  

EPISODE 13 - MARKETING YOUR SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK WITH GUEST JON D'AMORE

HOW DID JON D"AMORE PROPEL "THE   BOSS ALWAYS SITS IN THE BACK" INTO A BEST SELLER?

"Actually I’d known for more than two decades that I had the desire and ability to write...it’s just that New Jersey wasn’t the place to do it. So, I drove to L.A.—and stayed. As soon as I got there, I began to write. I didn’t stop until the manuscript and screenplay for “The Boss ALWAYS Sits in the Back” were finished. With manuscript and screenplay in hand, it was time to decided what to do next. Should I query agents, hope a publisher would snap it up, then maybe see it in publication within three to five years? Or, do what so many were doing at that time, and become my own publisher? That’s the route I chose."