FREE : MUGGING THE MUSE EBOOK

Holly Lisle's Mugging The Muse : Writing Fiction for Love and Money is a book that describes the experience of the writer in building her writing career. The ebook is most suited for newbies who are just starting to become a writer, but is very well appropriate for advanced writers as well, to get more knowledge.

The contents of the ebook are :

Section 1 : Preparation and Practice

• How I Found Myself Here, or Why I Became A Writer
• Could Vs. Should and the Price of Your Dreams
• Finding Silence
• Experts, Professionals, and College
• Ideas : A Hundred for a Dollar
• How to Start a Novel
• How to Create a Character
• How to Finish a Novel
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, or How to Choose a Writers' Group
• One Good Enemy
• That Our Reach Exceed Our Grasp

Section 2 : Writing and Selling 

• Your Book is Not Your Baby
• Say What You Mean
• The Writer's Toolbox
• Middles
• Apples, Bananas
• Dialogue Workshop
• Maps Workshop
• Timed Writing Workshop
• Editor Etiquette
• About Literary Agents
• How to Query an Agent
• Life Changes Writing; Writing Changes Life
• How to Quit Your Day Job to Write Full Time
  

Section 3 : Troubleshooting

• How to Tell Who Won't Make it in Writing (and How Not to be That Writer)
• The Perfect Busman's Holiday
• Are We Having Fun Yet?
• Losing - and Regaining - Writer's Hunger
• How to Collaborate - and How Not to
  
  

Section 4 : Frequently Asked Questions

Section 5 : Recommended Reading

Section 6 : Bonus Articles

• My Five Worst Career Mistakes, and How you can Avoid Them
• Ten Keys to Designing a Series Character You Can Live With (Forever)
• How To Make Every Story Better than the Last
  

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