Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure (Foundations of Fiction) (Volume 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 099153641X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Do you have a great story idea? Do you want to turn it into a novel?Award-winning author Janice Hardy (and founder of the popular writing site, Fiction University) takes you step-by-step through plotting and writing a novel with her book Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure. With clear and easy-to-understand examples, Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure offers ten self-guided workshops with more than 100 different exercises to help you craft a solid novel. You'll find multiple options that allow you to find the right process that works for you. She'll show you how to find and develop ideas, brainstorm stories from that first spark of inspiration, develop the right characters, setting, plots and subplots, as well as teach you how to identify where your novel fits in the market, and if your idea has what it takes to be a series. Learn how to: Create compelling characters readers will loveChoose the right point of view for your storyDetermine the conflicts that will drive your plot (and keep readers ho
It was also shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize (2011), and The Truman Award (2011). . She's the founder of Fiction University, a site dedicated to helping writers improve their craft. Her popular Foundations of Fiction series includes Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure, a self-guided workshop for planning or revising a novel, the companion Planning Your Novel Work
"Take Part in the Brilliance--Buy This Book!" according to Amazon Customer. I absolutely love this book, and am using it as my textbook for my novel writing class. I used Fiction University extensively last year, but this year I decided to go with the more compact version of Hardy's genius, and my students are loving it, from the fun examples, great exercises, light-bulb moments with the brainstorming questions--they are learning so much!I have learned so much from Hardy in my own writing as well, specifically about crafting characters (which, if you've read The Shifter, you know she does excellently), organizing struc. Good starting point DeeDee I bought this book along with several other books on writing a novel and developing plot. I liked how the book was divided into workshops. However, the first three and the last few workshops where the best. I think that there are better books than this one but its a good start for a beginner.. Perfect This is the class my Creative Writing degree program should have offered at the end. It helped me to figure out how to actually go about starting and writing my novel the way I create, not just some cut and dried method.
About the Author Janice Hardy is the award-winning author of the teen fantasy trilogy The Healing Wars, including The Shifter, Blue Fire, and Darkfall from Balzer+Bray/Harper Collins. Her popular Foundations of Fiction series includes Planning Your Novel: Ideas and Structure, a self-guided workshop for planning or revising a novel, the companion Planning Your Novel Workbook, and the upcoming Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft. The Shifter, was chosen for the 2014 list of "Ten Books All Young Georgians Should Read" from the Georgia Center for the Book. She lives in Central Florida with her husband, one yard zombie, two cats, and a very nervous freshwater eel. . For more information, please visit her at her writing site, Fiction-University, or JaniceHardy. It was also short