Do You Have the Aptitude & Personality to Be A Popular Author?

Creative Writing Assessment: What really sells well currently in fiction? 1. Eye-candy beginning that does not delay action. 2. Don't delay action by using a too-technical a description for average reader to follow in a romantic suspense novel. Example, you're writing about DNA researchers. Don't have the dialogue discuss too much technical material or try to explain it to the readers. Just use one short sentence in the dialogue per character to explain. Most agents reject too technical a novel. 3. Your synopsis should not repeat the story line. The story line needs to be clear in one or two short sentences. Most synopses rejected just keep repeating the same story line. Instead, you need to divulge the final denouement. 4. Commercially suitable work needs these three parts above plus a commercial title. For example instead of calling your DNA novel "The DNA Hunters" you can put it into the romantic intrigue genre by calling it The Bride Wore a Double Helix and then explain in ten plain language words what a double helix is all about. Simple, Clear, and Universal Emphasize commitment rather than technical jargon. Make sure your fiction doesn't get too technical for the average reader, yet doesn't at the same time talk down to the average reader who could be anyone from a homemaker to a lawyer, nurse, professor, or physician writing mainstream, historical, romance, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, board or video games, or other genre novels, stories, plays, or scripts. It's interesting that most agents don't want to handle novels that have too much technical information in them that is too much emphasis placed on scientific research in one's novel. Many agents and editors find that technical research results were "not interesting" (in their words)....but they didn't detail what "interesting" means to editors or agents. It all depends upon your intended audience. Ask yourself for whom you are writing. Are you best-suited to be a historical novelist, mystery writer, short story sprinter, digital interactive story writer on ancient civilizations, a nonfiction writer, or an author of thrillers using historical settings or universal themes? Do you think like a fiction writer, investigative journalist, or an imaginative, creative nonfiction author writing biography in the style of genre or mainstream fiction? How are you going to clarify and resolve the issues, problems, or situations in your plot by the way your characters behave to move the action forward? How do you get measurable results when writing fiction or creative nonfiction? Consider what steps you show to reveal how your story is resolved by the characters. This also is known as the dénouement. Dénouement as it applies to a short story or novel is the final resolution. It’s your clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot. What category of dénouement will your characters take to move the plot forward? Take the writing style preference classifier and find out how you approach your favorite writing style using Toot’s facts and acts. Which genre is for you--interactive, traditional, creative nonfiction, fiction, decisive or investigative? Would you rather write for readers that need to interact with their own story endings or plot branches? Which style best fits you? What’s your writing profile? Enjoy this ancient echoes writing genre interest classifier and see the various ways in which way you can be more creative. Do you prefer to write investigative, logical nonfiction or imaginative fiction—or a mixture of both? There are 35 questions—seven questions for each of the five pairs. There are 10 choices. Creative (imaginative) writing (fiction or nonfiction) is about building and being remembered for what you build into your story, fractal by fractal and word by word. Civilizations are remembered for either what they build up or what they tear down. And your plot and story line can be the reason for their behaviors. Your characters can work for freedoms and equality for all, regardless of diversity, belief, or no belief, for unity, or for the right to remain nomadic or any other way you want them to be. How do you want your story’s characters and the plot (driven by characters) to be remembered by the world--by what they invent, create, or develop, or by what they implode, remove, or wipe out? If a group of people are travelers or nomads, they can build stories from oral traditions out of seemingly “nothing” if the geographic areas they cover have no building materials such as trees or stone. Or art can be created on looms or from clay and minerals or from metals. Creativity can be oral or artistic and can be told, recorded, or worn. You want your characters to be remembered for destroying a plague or disease or for building huge malls, enormous or useful architecture, or great centers of learning? Do you want your characters to be remembered for solving worldwide problems and getting measurable results? For providing detailed steps for others to follow? For moral and ethical revelations? Or as leaders and inventors? Or for taking humanity to newer planets? What is your goal as an imaginative writer? What are your preferences?