Summer Series ~ June / July / August and maybe into September
Discovering Your Novel
All summer our focus is the craft and process of writing. M.A. Lee shares the various stages of Discovering Your Novel. We look at the Foundations, Visioning, Analysis, and Revision & Publishing stages that bring a novel into the world.
Links for June are below.
Focus for June ~ Foundations
6/1
Introduction : What makes writing successful? The discipline of work, through persistence, completion, learning craft, and disciplined devotion
6/2
Foundations A: Pick
story / genre / protagonist / antagonist / tagline or theme
6/9
Foundations B: Sketch
story / the protagonist's introduction / the antagonist's introduction / the setting's introduction / background
Info Dump! How to Avoid it.
6/16 and 6/23
Foundations C, in two parts: Know
Part 1: beginning / the protagonist's dearest desire / ending/ greatest stress point / the protagonist's nadir
Part 2: the protagonist's zenith / early win by evil / final battle / early twist for the protagonist / the betrayal of the protagonist
6/30
Foundations D: Build
Set up for the Manuscript's foundation: for paperback and ebook / format / MS basics (how to type it), front matter / back matter / the masterbook
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post with pdf of all charts Discovering Your Novel ~ All Charts - Writers Ink Nonfiction
