Jules Horne has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator. The most-rated is How to Launch a Freelance Copywriting Business: Creative Writing for a Living.
Writing for Audiobooks: Audio-First for Flow and Impact
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Are you an author interested in preparing your book for audiobook narration? Do you need advice on narrator-friendly writing and editing for voiceover and audio production? This practical guide to radio writing techniques will help you prepare your book for a voice artist or your own narration. Discover how to: Edit with your narrator in mind Use audio flow words and phrases Convey information with clarity Write from an audio-first viewpoint Handle visual book elements Engage split-focus listeners Shape sentences to hook listeners ...and lots more, including word lists and home studio tips. Audio production is a big investment! Make the most of your spend by getting your script audio-ready. With an audio-first editing pass, your narrator and listeners will really notice the difference, and you'll learn new writing and editing skills that will transform the impact of your books, whether audiobooks, or print and ebooks. Why I wrote this book Audiobook sales are booming. But as an author, how can you make the best of the opportunity? Most writers haven't trained in radio, podcasting, scriptwriting, or other writing forms that prioritize the spoken word over the written word. Narration and voiceover are a kind of performance, and book scripts need to be edited with audio writing techniques in mind, so that voiceover artists can deliver their very best. Hence this practical guide book. I'm a scriptwriter, spoken word performer, and ex-BBC radio journalist, and I teach dramatic writing at a UK university. My experience is in writing for the ear, and I've pulled everything I've learned together here, including audio-friendly concepts such as: flow attunement landing context-first performability language spans discourse markers ...all taken from the different writing worlds of radio news, spoken word, oral storytelling, rhetoric, and stage and radio drama. There’s advice for both fiction and non-fiction authors, and some technical studio tips for writers on the indie author path wanting to record their own audiobooks. This is perfect for: novelists non-fiction authors publishing professionals podcasters voiceover artists audiobook narrators oral historians spoken word performers radio writers storytellers ...and anyone inspired by the audiobook boom and the delights of the spoken word! Set yourself up for audiobook success with Writing for Audiobooks: Audio-First for Flow & Impact. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Jules Horne (P)2019 Jules Horne
Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers: Turbo-Charge Your Writing
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Are you ready to raise your writing game? Discover advanced creative writing techniques to take your fiction, drama, and poetry to a new level! Dramatic techniques are all about bold, clear, high-impact writing. Once you discover the craft concepts used by screen and stage writers to bring stories to life, you’ll never look back. Dramatic techniques work. They’ve survived the bearpit of live audiences. They cut through the mud. They make it super-easy to edit, because they’re built on an underlying structure. Authors who don’t have a firm grasp on these powerful strategies are missing out! Because dramatic techniques are core narrative skills, and they’ll supercharge your writing and editing. This practical guide to dramatic concepts will give you confidence in structure, plotting and character, and may even blow your mind. At the very least, you’ll kick yourself for not discovering them sooner. I wrote fiction for years. Then I started writing scripts professionally. I was gobsmacked by how little I knew. All the craft techniques I was missing. Why? Because dramatic, prose and poetry writers move in different worlds. So they don’t share professional secrets. Things like: Dramatic action and how to use it to drive a scene How to write subtext to create tension How to use status shifts to create more dynamic characters How to use objects to focus character relationships How to use space for impact and tension How transformations can make your storytelling more dynamic The difference between private and public settings in story dynamics How the ribbon of time can help tight, powerful editing How to use rituals to shortcut exposition This audiobook is packed with advanced writing craft concepts from the world of film, stage, and professional storytelling. If you want to move your writing up a gear, this is for you. If you've ever wrestled with showing and telling, dramatic techniques will turbo-charge your skills. If you've ever written flat scenes with no tension, Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers will tighten the screw. If you've published novels for years and still aren't seeing sales, it's time to step up a level with this advanced, powerful writing advice. Jules Horne is an award-winning fiction writer and playwright from Scotland. She teaches creative writing students at a UK university where she co-wrote the MA script strand. She’s an experienced teacher and editor and works across the writing craft disciplines (multimodal and multimedia). She writes the books she wishes she’d had when she was starting out as a writer with ambitions: Practical, professional how-to's that cut to the chase, and the pro secrets no one tells you, till you join the writing industries. Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers is just the jolt your creative writing needs!
©2018 Jules Horne (P)2020 Jules Horne
How to Launch a Freelance Copywriting Business: Creative Writing for a Living
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Creative writers - do you want to earn a living from freelance writing? If you're interested in creative writing jobs, this practical business guide will help. It explains how to start a solo copywriting business, find clients, set up a work pipeline, handle time and money, and survive and thrive on the freelance frontline. Jules Horne is a creative writer, copywriter, and university teacher who combines writing for business with award-winning plays and fiction. Her copywriting business, Texthouse, provides words for deep sea divers, heating engineers, housing associations, and chocolatiers, and her plays have won Edinburgh Fringe Firsts. If you're a creative writer interested in a freelance income stream, want to work from home, and need help selling your skills to small business, this inspiring book will get you launched with confidence. Ideal for creative writers, journalists, students and bloggers with great writing skills. Get these gold tips and strategies, and hit the ground running! What's inside: Creative writing for business Workspace Kit and caboodle Training and learning Launch Build your business Business concepts and culture Day-to-day workflow Legal nuts and bolts Working for yourself A creative's guide to business The job of writing Grow your business Starter projects Glossary In short, all you need to get your freelance writing career off to a great start!
©2017, 2018 Jules Horne (P)2020 Jules Horne