Many students and entrepreneurs realize the importance of a well-developed business plan. However, most need help learning how to write a comprehensive plan. This nuts and bolts, step-by-step approach to penning a business plan takes students from the dream of starting a business to finalizing a business process plan and course of action. Student friendly and highly interactive, the text combines vision with skill, aptitude, and market opportunities. One measure of the success of this text is that over 3,000 of the author teams' former students (since 1976) have launched successful business ventures using the skills and techniques learned in this book.

Small Business: Entrepreneurs

Business & Money

Robert J. Ray

J.D. Ryan

Lee A. Eckert

Economics

Dryden Press

Like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky and Thomas Harris, you, too, can learn the trade secrets of quality detective fiction. It's true. Just one year from now, you can deliver a completed mystery novel to a publisher--by writing only on weekends. Authors Robert J. Ray and Jack Remick guide you through the entire mystery-writing process, from creating a killer to polishing off the final draft. Each weekend you'll focus on a specific task--learning the basics of novel-writing, the special demands of mystery-writing, and the secrets professionals use to create stories one scene at a time, building to a shivery, satisfying climax. Using Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library as a model for the classical mystery tale and Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park for the hard-boiled mystery, this unique step-by-step program gives you all the information you need to reach your ultimate goal: a finished book in just 52 weeks! Let two successful masters of the genre show you how... Discover: Why you must create your killer first The tricks to writing dialogue that does it all--moves your plot, involves your reader, and makes your style sizzle How to "bury" information (and corpses) for your reader to find Why you should NOT build your book around chapters Special techniques for clearing writer's block Plus: examples from Sue Grafton, Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Cornwell, Thomas Harris, Raymond Chandler, and more.

The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery: From Empty Page to Finished Mystery in Just 52 Weekends--A Dynamic Step-by-Step Program

Self-Help

Jack Remick

Creativity

Dell Trade Paperbacks

This step-by-step book shows you how to organise your writing around weekends. There is a programme for each weekend in the year, taking you through every stage from the basics of character, scene and plot, to the construction of the novel in scenes and chapters. There is also advice on: * How to make your writing time sacred. * Which books to have on your bookshelf. * How to think like a writer. * Why other writers quit after the first chapter ...but you won't. * How to start your book in the first four weekends ...and how just one month will change your life.

The Weekend Novelist

Bret Norris

Literature & Fiction

A C Black Publishers Ltd

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