Fiction Profits Fizzle

Within the publishing and printing sector 17 companies made Fortune 500's list but with the one exception of McGraw-Hill (ranked 3) with 844 million in profits for 2005, no other publishing company made the list. McGraw-Hill is the number one educational publisher in the world. No fiction publishers made the list.

Point of View

Point of view (POV) is the most difficult concept for new writers to understand; this is the key step from transitioning your idea into a story; choices include first, second, third person, and omniscient. Think of a director looking through a camera lense and then cutting the scene and replaying the video scene; POV is only what you want your audience to see, not what's in the director's (author's) head. Remember this and you won't get caught with the most prevalent mistake new writers make--switching POV in the same scene.