
Premium
Opening Credits
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Introduction
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Part 1 First Principles 1.1 Why are you writing a novel?
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1.2 What has stopped you from completing a novel before?
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1.3 Principles to keep in mind as you create
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Part 2 Ideas, Research, Plotting, and Discovery Writing 2.1 How to find and capture ideas
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2.2 How to research your novel and when to stop
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2.3 Outlining (or plotting)
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2.4 Discovery writing (or pantsing)
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2.5 What are you writing? Genre
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2.6 What are you writing? Short story, novella, or novel
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2.7 What are you writing? Stand-alone, series, or serial
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Part 3 Aspects of a Novel 3.1 Story structure
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3.2 Scenes and chapters
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3.3 Character: Who is the story about?
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3.4 Point of view
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3.5 Dialogue
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3.6 Plot: What happens in the story?
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3.7 Conflict
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3.8 Openings and endings
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3.9 Setting and world-building: Where does the story happen?
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3.10 Author voice
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3.11 Theme
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3.12 Book or story title
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3.13 Language versus story and tools versus art
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Part 4 Writing the first draft 4.1 Attitude to the first draft
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4.2 How to write the first draft
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4.3 Dictate your book
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4.4 Write fast, cycle through, or write slow
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4.5 Writer’s block
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4.6 Writing tools and software
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4.7 When is the first draft finished?
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Part 5 Editing 5.1 Overview of the editing process
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5.2 Self-editing
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5.3 How to find and work with a professional editor
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5.4 Beta readers, specialist readers, and sensitivity readers
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5.5 Editing tools and software
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5.6 Lessons learned from editing my first novel after more than a decade
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5.7 When is the book finished?
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Conclusion
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Ending Credits
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