Summer Series for The Write Focus / Discovering Your Novel

 

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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June 1 

June 2 

June 9

June 16

June 23

June 30

Then we have

 Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-write-focus/id1546738740%20

Spotify will let you listen to all the episodes without your doing a thing to select them. They may be a little out of order, though. ;)  https://open.spotify.com/show/4fMwknmfJhkJxQvaaLQ3Gm?si=0GFku2PbShWXiDhRp7JaDQ

and YouTube, which is a direct link to the Writers Ink Books channel. >  https://youtu.be/u2w8PkjTDyc  

Enjoy!

 Resources

post with pdf of all charts Discovering Your Novel ~ All Charts - Writers Ink Nonfiction