Character Planning or Pants’ing?

Not a complicated blog post today – just simple observations. Some people require vast amounts of detailed histories on their character profiles, where they…

Three Types of People Who Fail NaNoWriMo

For many, NaNoWriMo presents an opportunity for writers to join together for an entire month to create a novel. It’s a opportunity for writers…

Planning Your NaNoWriMo Novel Final Step: The 60 point Sheet

This is it! We are on the LAST planning phase of NaNoWriMo! Once you complete this phase, you have enough plot information to accurately…

Planning Your NaNoWriMo Novel Step 2: The 21 Point Sheet

Continuing on from where we’ve been working all month, the First phase of the book planning process is the Logline, and then Save The…

Introducing a Mind-Blowing Way to Plan Your Novel Guaranteed to Win NaNoWriMo!

Once we’ve made our logline, it’s time to introduce our novel planning process. One way to plan your novel in a way guaranteed to…

The Seldom used Secret that guides your winning Novel

When I first began writing novels, I tried to pants my way through the novel, and invariably I’d quickly run out of ideas. Sometimes…