Category: writing fiction

  • Write your novel this year

    Write your novel this year

    Join a community of writers and finish your novel this year In 2019, I decided to do an experiment. What if I got 16 aspiring writers together for nine months and coached them through the process of writing a novel from page one? What if they received weekly lessons and assignments to help them get…

  • How to plot your novel

    How to plot your novel

    a nine-week course to help you plot and structure your novel Do you want to write a novel? Do you sometimes lose the thread of the plot? Have you tried and failed at outlining? Do you get off to a great start only to lose momentum? Then the Fiction Attic Press online novel writing class,…

  • Online Novel Writing Class: Plotting the Novel

    Online Novel Writing Class: Plotting the Novel

    Do you want to write a novel? Do you sometimes lose the thread of the plot? Have you tried and failed at outlining? Then The Book Doctor’s online novel writing class, PLOTTING THE NOVEL, is for you. Learn how to plot and structure your novel in this eight-week master class, taught by a New York Times…

  • Great Novel Planning Worksheets

    Great Novel Planning Worksheets

    Worksheets are a great way to organize your ideas for your novel and help you get the words on the page. Whether you want to begin a novel or you have a novel-in-progress, the Novel Planning Worksheets will help you generate scene lists, visualize your novel’s structure, understand what’s missing and what still needs to…

  • 7 Ways to Start a Story

    7 Ways to Start a Story

    There are many ways to start a story. Here are 7 great ones: When you’re telling a friend a story, you rarely begin with, “I was born in such-and-such hospital in such-and-such city.” Rather, you jump forward to the exciting part, the middle of the action of your own life. “I was standing in front…