Tailorable notebook/workbook for authors/writers: The essential tool that assists you in writing you masterpiece novel.
Are you writing a book? Don’t you recall the name of the character that witnessed the event? Are your characters flat and you don’t know how to make them more real? Do you have problems in structuring scenes, reminding places and control the times? Can you only write intermittently and never remember what you planned to write? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes”, then this tailorable notebook/workbook is for you.
Why an author’s notebook/workbook?
I have published over seventy (yes, 70) books and I always carry around a notebook, in particular when I am working on a complex novel. There I record scenes, characters, locations... anything that allows me to develop the plot of my story. Over the years, I have found that it makes a lot of sense to write down some things, no matter how briefly. For example, does the main character cough? Is it because he smokes, because he has a cold or because he has a pulmonary disease since he was a child? Identifying these little details is what provides depth to your masterpiece and its characters, but all too often we forget these little details despite the fact that we might have to remember them at a specific moment of the plot, or if wanting to reuse the character for another novel. The cigarette on the crime scene could belong to him or would his illness prevent him from smoking in the first place?
This is not just a notebook
It is also a workbook with five major sections: Plots, characters, scenarios and locations, events or turning points and scenes. Each of these major sections has blocks to document these little or (big) brushstrokes that will provide more life to your novel. How did the crime scene smell? What could you hear there? Other sections cover general book information, structure of the chapters, timeline, notes, publication schedule and marketing plan, all of them with their corresponding information blocks.
Extensive help for your writing
And the most important thing: All these sections and each and every block have a detailed description of how they can be used to document a specific detail of your bestseller. 13 densely-packed pages with descriptions and advice will assist you in outlining your work without having to perform a course on creative writing.
It is tailorable!
Not only can you create your own table of content; the help of the workbook indicates what you should do and what you should ignore if necessary. Though it has many templates that you can use “as is”, you are completely free to use it as you like. That’s what the advice is for: You can follow it... or not. Don’t let anybody shoehorn into a fixed structure: Just use it as you wish to unleash your productivity and creativity.
Start your new bestseller!
If you always carry out a notebook to jot down your ideas or only work on your masterpiece from time to time, then perhaps it’s a good idea to document your vision a little bit more formally. And who knows... Perhaps you learn something about writing books or perhaps start doing something that you always knew in the back of your head but never really applied.
Too short for you?
If you are going to write a very complex book, then perhaps the hard cover edition is more suitable, as it allows to document more characters, scenes, etc. Check out its description!
