Super Simple Story Structure: A Quick Guide To Plotting And Writing Your Novel: 1 (Writing as a Second Career) - Softcover

Lilly, L M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1950061124 ISBN 13: 9781950061129

Publisher: Spiny Woman LLC, 2020

Synopsis

Are you struggling to start your novel? Stuck in the middle?

Have you finished a first draft, but it doesn't really grab you?

Super Simple Story Structure is a short, easy-to-read book that lets you speed through your first draft, minimize major rewrites, and keep readers turning the pages.

The book includes specific questions and prompts to expand and focus your story idea. Using those exercises, plus examples from plots as diverse as The Terminator, The Awakening, and Gone With The Wind, bestselling author Lisa M. Lilly (writing as L. M. Lilly) walks you through the five simple steps she's used to write every novel she's published. You'll learn to create:

• Strong Conflict
• Characters The Reader Cares About
• Five Basic Plot Points
• Compelling Subplots

Most important, Super Simple Story Structure walks you through what should happen in the middle of the novel--that spot that many writers approach with dread.

What you'll create won't be so structured that you'll feel hemmed in and stifled. But it will be enough that you can write your first draft quickly, without getting stuck staring at a blank screen for an hour, then giving up and checking your social media accounts.

Get started today.

About this title

About the Author

An author, attorney, and adjunct professor of law, L. M. Lilly founded Writing As A Second Career to share information with people juggling writing novels with working at other jobs or careers. Her books on writing include: The One-Year Novelist: A Week-By-Week Guide To Writing Your Novel In One Year; Creating Compelling Characters From The Inside Out; Happiness, Anxiety, and Writing: Using Your Creativity To Live A Calmer, Happier Life; and Buffy And The Art Of Story Season One: Writing Better Fiction By Watching Buffy. Writing as Lisa M. Lilly, she is the author of the Q.C. Davis mysteries and the bestselling four-book Awakening supernatural thriller series.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spiny Woman LLC
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1950061124
• ISBN 13: 9781950061129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90