The Writing Coach
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If you’re waiting around and around and around for publishers to get back to you – that’s normal. The process is like one long assembly line of backlogging and querying – the author edits their manuscript prose and sends it to an agent, then the agent edits the manuscript prose and sends it to the…
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Storyboarding is an essential step in filmmaking – and also animation – often used to outline a script or shot list and assist the floor managers and directors in their set management. For those unfamiliar, they are, essentially, blank comic boards (usually 3×2 or 2×2) that are filled in with scenes for a book or…
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If you’re looking to publish a book of any genre or style, especially a debut novel as an unknown author, you likely already know the competition that is already out there so you will need every possible edge you can get. Beautiful cover art is one such edge that has a major success rate for…
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Every storyteller worth their salt knows the three-act structure, the beginning (protasis), middle (epitasis), and end (catastrophe) from Aristotle’s theory of drama. Then Shakespeare converted this into a slightly more complex division. The exposition (or prologue), the rising action, the climax, the falling action and resolution (or denouement) are the five story elements of the…
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Whether you fancy yourself the second coming of William Wordsworth or share the impossibly imaginative mind of Walter Mitty, you’ve probably hit an absolute wall at some point trying to write. During these troubling times, we’ve likely chewed pencils, scrunched papers, strangled computer monitors, jammed our keyboards, punched pillows, or taken long, tireless walks by…
Donovan Levine | Agent, Writer, Copyeditor 