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About Randy Ingermanson

Randy Ingermanson wants to teach you how to write excellent fiction.

He's been teaching for nearly twenty years, and he's known around the world as "the Snowflake Guy" in honor of his wildly popular Snowflake Method of writing a novel.

Randy is an award-winning novelist and publishes the free monthly Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine. He says that "Fiction Writing = Organization + Craft + Marketing," so he focuses on those three topics in his e-zine.

He also blogs when the spirit moves him. He is trying to get the spirit to move him weekly, but the spirit gets touchy about schedules.

Randy lives in the Pacific Northwest and works as a manservant to two surly and demanding cats. Visit Randy at AdvancedFictionWriting.com.

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How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method (Advanced Fiction Writing Book 1) Jul 16, 2014

by Randy Ingermanson

( 976 )

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A Magical Key to Unlock Your Creative Wizard

Are you writing a novel, but having trouble getting your first draft written? You’ve heard of “outlining,” but that sounds too rigid for you. You’ve heard of “organic writing,” but that seems a bit squishy to you.

Take a look at the wildly popular Snowflake Method—a battle-tested series of ten steps that jump-start your creativity and help you quickly map out your story. All around the world, novelists are using the Snowflake Method right now to ignite their imaginations and get their first drafts down on paper.

In this book, you’ll follow the story of a fictitious novelist as she learns to tap into the amazing power of the Snowflake Method. Almost magically, she finds her story growing from a simple idea into a deep and powerful novel. And she finds her novel changing her—turning her into a stronger, more courageous person.

Zany, Over the Top, and Just Plain Fun

How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method is a “business parable”—a how-to guide written in story form. It’s zany. It’s over the top. It’s just plain fun. Most important, it’s effective, because it shows you, rather than telling you.

You’ll learn by example how to grow your story idea into a sizzling first draft.

You’ll discover:

How to define your “target audience” the right way, so you know exactly how your ideal readers think and feel. Forget what the experts tell you about “demographics.”

How to create a dynamite selling tool that will instantly tell people whether they’ll love your story or hate it. And you want them to either love it or hate it.

How to get inside the skin of every one of your characters—even your villain. Especially your villain.

How to find a deep, emotively powerful theme for your story. Do you know the one best point in your novel to unveil your theme—when your reader is most eager to hear it?

How to know when to backtrack, and why backtracking is essential to writing great fiction.

How to fire-test each scene to guarantee it’ll be high-impact—before you write it.

Excerpt from Chapter 1

Goldilocks had always wanted to write a novel.

She learned to read before she went to kindergarten.

In grade school, she always had her nose in a book.

In junior high, the other kids thought she was weird, because she actually liked reading those dusty old novels in literature class.

All through high school, Goldilocks dreamed of writing a book of her own someday.

But when she went to college, her parents persuaded her to study something practical.

Goldilocks hated practical, and secretly she kept reading novels. But she was a very obedient girl, so she did what her parents told her. She got a very practical degree in marketing.

After college, she got a job that bored her to tears—but at least it was practical.

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How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method (Advanced Fiction Writing Book 2) May 18, 2018

by Randy Ingermanson

( 196 )

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Want to Write a Dynamite Novel?

The secret to writing a dynamite novel is to first write a dynamite scene.
Because if you can write one terrific scene, you can write a hundred. And that’s a novel.
This is a short book, with just one goal—to teach you the simple principles you can use right now to design a powerful scene before you write it.
If you’ve already written your novel, you can use these same principles to make each scene better.

About the Book

How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method will give you the power tools you need to write scenes that move your reader’s emotions.

You’ll learn:

The one thing your reader most desperately wants. And why.

How to decide which character should have the point of view.

The 2 kinds of scenes designed to give your reader a powerful emotional experience—and how to know which to use.

5 ways to test that your lead character’s goal in each scene is perfect.

How to end every scene so it leaves your reader wanting more.

Why dilemmas are good, and how to know when they’re ruining your story.

4 ways to know that your character’s decision will drive your story forward.

How to know when a scene is broken—and how to fix it.

Excerpt from Chapter 1:

Your reader desperately wants one thing.
You have it in your power to give your reader that one thing.
And what is that one thing?
I could tell you what that one thing is, and you would nod and agree that yes, that one thing is clearly something all readers want.
But telling you that one thing wouldn’t make it stick in your mind forever.
I want it to stick.
I’d rather show you that one thing. Once you’ve seen it, once you’ve lived it, you’ll never forget it. That one thing will be inside you, fueling everything you write.
So let me tell you a quick story about one of our ancestors who lived many thousands of years ago in a small village on this planet we call home.
When I say he’s our ancestor, I mean it literally—he’s your ancestor and he’s my ancestor and he’s every human’s ancestor.
That ancestor of ours was once a thirteen-year-old boy, the newest man in the village, and the smallest.
Imagine you’re that boy on the day when word comes to the village that there’s a killer tiger ravaging the village’s herd of goats.
The Tale of the Tiger
You’re furious. A drought has been burning the land for many months. That herd of goats is all that keeps your village from starvation.
You’re also terrified. There’s only one way to get rid of a killer tiger. The village has to organize a hunt, find the tiger, and kill it. But that won’t be easy, because there’s nothing more dangerous in your world than a killer tiger.
The village headman sends word around to the whole village. All men meet in the village square, and bring your spear.
When the messenger comes to your hut, he shakes his head and frowns. He thinks you’re too young to go.
In your heart, you’re afraid he’s right.

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Writing Fiction For Dummies Nov 11, 2009

by Peter Economy , Randy Ingermanson

( 627 )

$10.99

A complete guide to writing and selling your novel

So you want to write a novel? Great! That’s a worthy goal, no matter what your reason. But don’t settle for just writing a novel. Aim high. Write a novel that you intend to sell to a publisher. Writing Fiction for Dummies is a complete guide designed to coach you every step along the path from beginning writer to royalty-earning author. Here are some things you’ll learn in Writing Fiction for Dummies:

Strategic Planning: Pinpoint where you are on the roadmap to publication; discover what every reader desperately wants from a story; home in on a marketable category; choose from among the four most common creative styles; and learn the self-management methods of professional writers.
Writing Powerful Fiction: Construct a story world that rings true; create believable, unpredictable characters; build a strong plot with all six layers of complexity of a modern novel; and infuse it all with a strong theme.
Self-Editing Your Novel: Psychoanalyze your characters to bring them fully to life; edit your story structure from the top down; fix broken scenes; and polish your action and dialogue.
Finding An Agent and Getting Published: Write a query letter, a synopsis, and a proposal; pitch your work to agents and editors without fear.

Writing Fiction For Dummies takes you from being a writer to being an author. It can happen—if you have the talent and persistence to do what you need to do.

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Double Vision: A Quantum Suspense Novel Dec 10, 2013

by Randy Ingermanson

( 105 )

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There’s a Code Even the NSA Can’t Crack

But Dillon Richard can. Dillon is a straight-arrow genius with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s never told a lie. He’s never been kissed. And he’s never had a badass quantum computer for cracking codes. Until now.

In just a few days, Dillon will finish the software to crack the “unbreakable” code that banks and terrorists use to protect their most valuable secrets.

Everybody’s going to want a piece of Dillon. The Mafia. The NSA. And his two beautiful co-workers, Keryn and Rachel.

Who'll get him first?

About the Book

Double Vision is a hilarious geeky suspense novel about a guy who has no idea how attractive he is to women. In fact, he has no idea how women think at all.

Dillon is terribly strait-laced, and he’s a bit shocked when he sees that his sexy co-worker Rachel doesn’t wear a bra. But he’s in for a bigger surprise when Keryn shows him where she hid the quantum computer.

Dillon is just a wee bit opinionated, and he can’t say a word without offending somebody with his thoughts on science, religion, national security, and the burning question of whether the multiverse is real.

Excerpt 1:

The passenger door opened and a petite young woman sprang out. She had shoulder-length silky hair of a golden blond color, and she wore a garish pink-and-blue tie-dyed shirt that stretched tight across her chest and did not reach down to her navel. Her faded jeans had a hole in one knee and did not reach up to her navel. She wore an old-fashioned leather fanny pack low around her hips.

Dillon thought she looked like one of those supermodels on the covers of magazines in the supermarket. For a second, he simply stared at her. Then he caught himself and looked down at the ground. A wave of dizziness washed over him and he thought for a moment that he was going to fall over.

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Keryn did not like the way the blonde was staring at Dillon. Ogling him. Which was what every woman did the first time they saw Dillon Richard. If any guy on the planet ever deserved the word gorgeous, it was him. And the amazing thing about Dillon was that he had no idea how he affected women.

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Oxygen Series Box Set: A Science Fiction Suspense Box Set Nov 5, 2015

by John Olson , Randy Ingermanson

( 19 )

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The Award-Winning Thriller Oxygen and Its Gripping Sequel The Fifth Man

Halfway to Mars, an explosion leaves the four-astronaut crew of the Ares 10 with only enough oxygen for one.

Valkerie Jansen, the ship’s doctor, is tough, beautiful, and has an uncanny knack for survival.

Bob Kaganovski, the ship's mechanic, is paid to be paranoid -- and he's good at it. He’s worried that Valkerie is mentally unbalanced, possibly even dangerous.

Which is just too bad, because Bob’s falling in love with her. Despite his best efforts.

Meanwhile, NASA is trying to figure out who should live and who should die, when there’s only enough oxygen for one astronaut to reach the Red Planet.

About the Series

Oxygen and its sequel The Fifth Man are Mars suspense novels that mix science, religion, romance, and adventure—a quarter of a million words of high-tension action that will make you forget bedtime.

Oxygen won the 2002 Christy award for best futuristic novel in Christian fiction. The Fifth Man was a 2003 finalist in the same category.

The Oxygen Series Box Set will take you on a wretched, miserable, dangerous vacation to Mars in a stinking, cramped, failing spaceship. And once you get there, you’ll find that the real danger is something you brought with you—if only you could figure out what that something is.

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Bob Kaganovski had shampoo in his eyes when the decompression alarm went off.

He grabbed the suction hose and ran it frantically over his face and eyes. Footsteps pounded outside the shower.

“Decompression!” shouted Josh Bennett, mission commander of the Ares 10. “Get to the EVA suits now! We’ve got about fifteen minutes.”

Bob popped open the Velcroed shower door and grabbed a towel. Fear knotted his gut. Only fifteen minutes! He stepped out of the shower and swiped a towel across the soles of his feet, drying them just enough so he wouldn’t kill himself on the stairs.

He ran through a corridor to the steep circular stairway that led down to Level 1 of the Habitation Module. The decompression alarm beeped once every two seconds. The interval was keyed to cabin pressure. When it got down to vacuum, the beeps would merge into one steady drone. If he wasn’t in his suit by then, he wouldn’t hear it. For one thing, sound wouldn’t travel in a vacuum. For another, he’d be dead.

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The Fifth Man: A Science Fiction Suspense Novel (Oxygen Series Book 2) Oct 22, 2015

by John Olson , Randy Ingermanson

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Everybody Knows…

Martian bacteria couldn’t possibly infect humans. But what if it did?

NASA couldn’t possibly consider stranding astronauts on Mars. But what if that was best for everyone?

Trained astronauts couldn’t possibly freak out under insane amounts of stress. But what if one of them did?

About the Book

The Fifth Man is a Mars suspense novel that mixes science, religion, romance, and suspense.

The Fifth Man is the sequel to the acclaimed novel Oxygen, which won the 2002 Christy award for best futuristic novel in Christian fiction.

The Fifth Man will take you on a wretched, miserable, dangerous vacation to Mars, where you’ll face infection, back-stabbing, hyper-vigilance, and enough stress to make you crack.

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Valkerie pushed the mole ahead of her and wormed her way forward. The best samples would be deeper. She swept the walls with her light, but her eyes kept darting back to the end of the vent. Then she saw it—milky pink striations on an outcropping of white, just beyond the overhanging rock. She tried to duck beneath the jagged protrusion, but her helmet was too big.

“Thirteen minutes, Val!”

“I found something. Just a little bit farther.” Valkerie reached out, stretching out as far as she could reach with her pick. Too far. She tried to back up.

Stuck!

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Oxygen: A Science Fiction Suspense Novel (Oxygen Series Book 1) Oct 23, 2015

by John Olson , Randy Ingermanson

( 167 )

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An Explosion On the Way to Mars

Halfway to the Red Planet, an explosion leaves the four-member crew of the Ares 10 with only enough oxygen for one.

Valkerie Jansen, the ship’s doctor, is tough, beautiful, and has an uncanny knack for survival.

Bob Kaganovski, the ship's mechanic, is paid to be paranoid -- and he's good at it. He’s worried that Valkerie is mentally unbalanced, possibly even dangerous.

Which is just too bad, because Bob’s falling in love with her.

Meanwhile, NASA is trying to figure out who should live and who should die, when there’s only enough oxygen for one.

About the Book

Oxygen is a Mars suspense novel that mixes science, religion, romance, and suspense.

Oxygen won the 2002 Christy award for best futuristic novel in Christian fiction.

Oxygen will take you on a wretched, miserable, dangerous vacation to Mars in a stinking, cramped, failing spaceship.

Excerpt

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This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

Who Wrote the Bible Code?: A Physicist Probes the Current Controversy Oct 22, 2013

by Randall Ingermanson

( 17 )

$4.99

What is the truth about the Bible code? How can you decide what to believe? Why does it matter? Around the world, men and women are captivated by a theory so incredible that, if proven true, it would forever revolutionize mankind’s view of Scripture. Some experts have claimed the Bible contains a code that accurately predicts today’s events. Others renounce the Bible code theory as unfounded.

Using a new statistical test that promises to provide an authoritative, credible answer to the Bible code debate, computational physicist Dr. Randall Ingermanson leads you on an easily understandable, meticulously planned investigation of the evidence at hand–addressing the most urgent questions surrounding the Bible code controversy and carefully examining how recent findings could affect your faith.

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