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About Louise Tondeur
After doing a Creative Writing MA at The University of East Anglia in the noughties, Lou Tondeur published The Water’s Edge and The Haven Home for Delinquent Girls with Headline Review, did a PhD, travelled around the world, started a family, and became a Creative Writing lecturer. Since then she has supported countless numbers of writers through mentoring and editorial feedback. Unusual Places, her first short story collection, came out in 2018 and she is currently working on her next novel. Lou lives near Brighton on the sunny south coast of England, teaches for the Open University, and blogs at: www.louisetondeur.co.uk
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Over the course of the book, you’ll be introduced to seven writing techniques. By practising them, you’ll discover what to write when you first start, and learn how to:
- get some words written,
- grow in confidence,
- think creatively,
- conquer your fear of the blank page,
- to let go of judgement and self-criticism,
- come up with interesting ideas,
- collect source material for your writing projects,
- design your own writing prompts.
“Louise is one of the most inspirational lecturers I have ever worked with” – former student.
Do you have a story inside you waiting to get out? Use this effective step-by-step approach to turn your dream of becoming an author into reality.
Brimming with ideas but struggling to fill a page? Afraid you’ll start another book only to file it away with other half-finished projects? Overwhelmed and in need of a productive plan that will keep you sane? Accomplished wordsmith, speaker, and editor Louise Tondeur has spent over two decades helping countless creative writing students move past self-doubt and hit the ground running on their literary journey. Now she’s here to show you how to take your vision and break it into manageable steps so you’ll stop staring at an empty screen and type “The End” on a polished manuscript.
How to Write a Novel and Get It Published is your easy-to-digest guide for building confidence and flourishing as a storyteller. Packed with tips for developing skills one step at a time while demystifying the process, Tondeur breaks down every detail using bite-size paragraphs and hands-on exercises. And by practicing these proven techniques, you’ll no longer think of yourself as a wannabe and find the courage to master the art of crafting compelling fiction.
In How to Write a Novel and Get It Published, you’ll discover:
- Ways to use the Problem Technique to harness rising stakes and keep folks turning the pages
- Why learning to create authentic characters that readers adore is the key to gaining fans
- Fun examples using Cheesy Rom-Com Research to help spice up your narrative
- How to establish a writing habit and flexibility that will take you all the way to the finish line
- An underused tool aimed at getting that story wrapped up, a beginner’s guide to publication, a twelve-page resource kit, and much, much more!
How to Write a Novel and Get It Published is your essential handbook for converting small, actionable goals into big achievements. If you like down-to-earth advice, knowledge delivered with a healthy dose of cheerleading, and a fluff-free crash course suited to beginners, then you’ll love Louise Tondeur’s powerful game-changer.
Buy How to Write a Novel and Get It Published to open the first chapter in your bestselling future today!
How to Think Like a Writer introduces you to a writer’s toolkit, a set of tools that you can use to generate words and connect with your creative side. These tools will help you to accept and confront your internal censor or judge and to develop a writer's mindset.
Think of Find Time to Write as a habit formation system. You don’t need to start with an idea. You need time and space to write, and you need to show up regularly. Find Time to Write will help you do exactly that. If your life is so overcrowded you’re wondering how you’re ever going to find time to write, then this book is for you. If you simply want a set of powerful time management resources, this book is also for you.
All the small steps writing guides are based on two principles. One, you can take any big project, goal or task and break it down into smaller and smaller steps until it becomes doable. Two, if you take small but specific actions regularly enough, they'll have a snowball effect. That means, using the time management techniques and writing prompts in Find Time to Write, you can start taking small steps towards your writing goals.
What’s included?
All four books in the series include lesson plans and ideas sheets for busy teachers. In this first book you’ll find the following four sections: Foundational Drama Skills, Storytelling, Communication, and Using Props and Costume. You’ll also get a bonus section on putting on a radio play using the Babushka story. There are forty sessions in this book, divided into four sections, enough material for you to run one drama session a week over the school year (plus the bonus section). You can turn the lesson plans and the individual activities into one off sessions, or use them to build schemes of work. They're flexible, so you and your students can add your own topics, learning objectives, stories, or ideas throughout.
‘Pick up and teach it’ drama sessions
Drama is both a teaching method and an art form. You’ll find it is an accessible way into most topics. You can use it to teach English, PSHE, history, or science. You can use it introduce stories – and every topic has a story attached to it if you delve deep enough. You can also link up with other disciplines to inspire Creative Arts projects and Drama is good for teaching important skills such as self-confidence, body awareness, collaborative working and self-expression. You can even use Drama to bring maths or computer programming to life.
Grandma’s stories, ‘…would always start in the place where we were,’ and so it is with Unusual Places. Human remains are concealed in the Greenwich Tunnel in a world where London is a prison; a market is the setting for sexual and sensual awakenings; a professional picnicker finds love. Louise Tondeur’s stories skip along, rich with detail and musical prose, only to trip us up with turns and surprises: the unusual lurks in the most ordinary of places.
What’s included?
You'll get a set of Drama lesson plans and ideas sheets with activities suitable for most age groups, although most applicable to 11 to 14 year olds. In this second book in the series you’ll find the following sections: Improvisation, Rhythm, and Atmosphere. You’ll get access to a scheme of work on Foundational Drama Skills and a whole set of activities on introducing Shakespeare. There are forty sessions in this book, enough material for you to run one drama session a week over one school year. You can turn the lesson plans and the individual activities into one off sessions, or use them to build schemes of work. Plus, they're flexible, so you and your students can add your own topics, learning objectives, stories, or ideas throughout.
‘Pick up and teach it’ drama sessions
Drama is both a teaching method and an art form. You’ll find it is an accessible way into most topics. You can use it to teach English, PSHE, history, or science. You can use it introduce stories – and every topic has a story attached to it if you delve deep enough. You can also link up with other disciplines to inspire Creative Arts projects and Drama is good for teaching important skills such as self-confidence, body awareness, collaborative working and self-expression. You can even use Drama to bring maths or computer programming to life.