Tired of Thick How-To Books?

Hank Quense • May 13, 2026

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Beginner’s Guides Make Learning Feel Easy Again

My series of short, focused ebooks for beginning writers and authors has grown. The Beginner's Guide to Planning a Story is now available.

It joins the four other Beginner's Guide already available:

* Beginner's Guide to Creating Genuine Characters

* Beginner's Guide to Developing a Plot

* Beginner's Guide to Publishing a Book

* Beginner's Guide to Basic Book Marketing

 

The series will soon grow even more when two new ebooks join up. These two new ones are:

* Beginner's Guide to Scene Design

* Beginner's Guide to Author Business

These ebooks will become available before the end of the summer.

 

Why bother with the Beginner's Guides?

Beginner’s Guides stay tightly focused on one skill at a time, so the writer isn’t distracted or overwhelmed by a dozen other topics at different levels of detail.

Because they cover a single subject, it’s easier for writers to remember and apply what they learn, instead of skimming past lots of information they don’t need right now.

Writers can pick exactly the guide that matches their immediate problem or goal, which saves time compared with buying or searching through a big, multi-topic book to find the few relevant sections

 

Don’t let information overload slow you down—choose the Beginner’s Guide that solves one problem, follow it step by step, and see results in your next draft

 

 

 

 

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