Plan Your Novel Like A Pro: And Have Fun Doing It!

Barany School of Fiction

This book will help you get excited to plan your novel. The tools shared here are designed to spark your muse and give you confidence when you sit down to write your story. Plan Your Novel Like A Pro: And Have Fun Doing It! is for organic writers and pansters who want a roadmap to follow, so that they can let their creativity loose.

"Beth's book is like plotting for pantsers!"--Tess Rider, Science Fantasy Romance Author

We know that you have other activities in your life besides writing, and that writing your novels is important to you. You can plan your novel in a way that fits into your life. We know, because we've done it, multiple times!

Based on the popular course, Plan Your Novel: 30-Day Writing Challenge, this book is organized into 4 sections, so that you can do the exercises over a one-month period.

If you're planning to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) or Camp NaNo, this course will get you ready and give you everything you need to write a novel in 30 days.

This book is for you if you have never written a novel, have always wanted to, and still feel lost on how to go from brilliant idea to The End, then you will be stretched in new and different ways; or if you're an experienced novelist, with 1 or 2 completed or partially completed novels under your bed, and you're stuck somehow. You may find this course structured in a way that's new to you and yet familiar; or if you have 3 or more unfinished novels sitting in a drawer, and always hit that sagging middle and lose focus or lose interest, this course will help you dream up exciting ways to torture, I mean challenge, your characters all the way to story resolution.

With this book, you'll be able to believe that you can write a novel; step into a sense of satisfaction and creative accomplishment; cet excited for NaNoWriMo, and of course, plan your novel

If you want to write novels, novellas, and short stories -- page-turning fiction like mystery, thriller, romance, suspense, fantasy, science fiction, women's fiction, and mash-ups of these -- for the Adult, Young Adult, New Adult, and Middle Grade Reader market.

Here is the list of chapters:
Introduction & Essential Tips
Chapter 1: Essential Character Tips for Fiction Writers
Chapter 2: Essential Plot Tips for Fiction Writers

Week One: Elevator Pitch, What-If Pitch & Short Synopsis
Chapter 3: Elevator Pitch
Chapter 4: The What-If Pitch by Ezra Barany
Chapter 5: Your Story Synopsis

Week Two: Get to Know Your Main Characters
Chapter 6: Interview Your Characters
Chapter 7: Uncover Your Characters' Core Beliefs And Identity And How They Change
Chapter 8: Your Characters' Secrets
Chapter 9: Draft Your Character's Emotional Core With The Empathy Formula
Chapter 10: The Character Relationship Map
Chapter 11: Focusing on What to Write

Week Three: Story Plot Points & World Building
Chapter 12: Uncover Your Character's Worst Fears to Discover Your Story Conflicts
Chapter 13: World Building: Questions to Brainstorm
Chapter 14: Your Story's Structure
Chapter 15: The Question Toolbox

Week Four: Scene-By-Scene Outline And Plotting
Chapter 16. High-Concept Pitch
Chapter 17: Design Your Plot with the Problem-Solution Tool
Chapter 18: Five Essential Stages Of A Scene (And Of Story!)
Chapter 19: Scene Setup: Storyboarding
Chapter 20: Scene-by-Scene Outline

Next Steps: Write Your Novel
Resources for Further Reading and Study