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Apr 4, 2024 · Research is a crucial step in any early writing process. It's a springboard for new ideas and can add substance and authenticity to your story. This guide will help you stay organized and connect the dots during research for your next novel.
Jul 18, 2023 · Okay, so this is blatant self-promotion, but the Romance Author’s Novel Organizer is what I use to manage my novel writing projects. It covers the entirety of a project from idea to premise to plotting to characters to writing schedule to revising/editing to publishing to marketing.
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- Starting with Chronological Order
- Filling in The Gaps
- Establishing Setups and Payoffs
- Dealing with Chapter Breaks
- Planning For Cliffhangers
- Writing Down Your Outline
No matter where you’ve started from, once you have all your notes on scene cards, count them. If you have only 20 or so, you should be able to lay them out so you can see them all at once with no trouble. If you have a lot (more than 50, let’s say), first sort them chronologically into three piles: 1) things that happen near the beginning of the st...
To fill in the gaps in your outline, think about what makes great storytelling. You have someone with a problem. You have a setting in time and space. You have something working against this person. Now’s the perfect time to remind yourself that readers need three things to keep them turning the pages—believability, heart, and tension. In the case ...
Setups and payoffs are great ways to look for holes in your outline. If there is a scene card near the end of your story that needs to be set up or explained, make sure there’s a scene card earlier that takes care of this. For example, if at the end of your story your bookworm accountant defuses a bomb, you’d better have a scene card earlier in the...
Novels have different styles of chapter breaks, and each creates a different effect. Some have dozens of short chapters, some have a few huge chapters (often called parts, or books) and some have no chapters at all. The chapter break should be placed strategically. If, while constructing your outline, the thought of separating your plot into chapte...
Cliffhangers can be psychological as well as physical. Perhaps your hero has just found out her true love is already married, but the chapter ends before we hear her reaction. A cliffhanger means something huge is at stake, and we are made to wait for the outcome at the most suspenseful point in the action. You can see why cliffhangers are good cha...
Now copy the scene cards on paper, leaving about two lines blank between each entry. Use one page for each chapter. Go through the outline again in this format and fill in the blank lines with new ideas that come to you as you read the outline aloud to yourself. New scenes for expanding your story will continue to bubble up in your mind. Write thos...
To elaborate on the brief definition of an advance organizer presented above, an advance organizer is a structural device that can be strategically used at different points in a manuscript to help “move an argument forward” and to aid the reader in easily navigating an argument.
Aug 9, 2021 · Last updated: Aug 9, 2021 • 3 min read. The book-writing process can be daunting. Even bestselling authors may experience writer’s block as they try to come up with their next book idea.
Organizer measures 6-1/4'' wide x 8-1/4'' high. 160 pages. It's time to conquer the blank page and bring your story to life. This journal can help! Guided exercises, goal trackers, and in-depth fill-in pages give you all the tools you need to start your novel and see it through.
Try Story Planner for free. Check out Story Planner Premium. Try our step-by-step novel system. Story Planner offers easy to use template plans to help writers outline novels, screenplays and short stories.
