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How I Wrote a Novel in 14 Days
- Writing Fast By the Seat of My Pants Without an Outline
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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How to daydream a full-length novel without an outline and write it fast with minimal revisions.
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Raise your hand.
How many of you wish to write a novel but dread outlining?
How many books have you read that recommend outlining for better and faster writing?
How many of your writer friends not only outline their books but have outlines and arcs for their series?
If you’re like me, outlines give you the willies but you couldn’t follow one even if someone gave you one to write to.
But you still want to write a novel and you believe you can.
That’s great because I’m going to show you how I wrote a full-length novel with any planning, outlining, character sheets, or any of the worksheets other writing books recommend.
I describe how I use my personality attributes to design a process that works for me—one that allows me to write fast by the seat of my pants and minimize revisions.
I understand your deepest fears when diving off the deep end into unknown waters and your struggle with the dreaded inner critic. I’ll show you how to daydream while you write and create twists and turns to power your story to an awesome ending.
We’ll skip the boring parts and jump right into our story from a standing start. We’ll keep the words flowing and together, we’ll discover how to spin wild tales that still meet genre and story structure guidelines. And we’ll be ready when others moan, “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
By having no plan, we are truly free to create, and that is the aim of this book.
It’s how I did it, not necessarily how you should do it. However, by showing you how I did it, my fervent hope is that you will use the individual aspects of your personality to tweak and create a method that works for you—fast, furious, and fun—a novel in fourteen days, more or less.
Ready?
Let’s go!
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Book coach and editor Molly McCowan takes you through the self-editing process in 13 detailed lessons, using a step-by-step method designed to reduce overwhelm and to structure the revision process in the most productive way possible. Working from the big to the little picture of your work, Molly shows you how to strengthen character development, find and fix plot holes, build stronger scenes, focus on smooth pacing and point-of-view issues, elevate your language, and much more.
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This is excellent
- By Phil F. on 08-19-21
By: Molly McCowan, and others
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An AI Author’s Journal: From 0 to 70000 in 14 Days
- How I Used Artificial Intelligence to Write a Publishable Novel in Two Weeks
- By: Rachelle Ayala
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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#1 Bestseller in: Authorship, Authorship Reference, Computer Graphics, Electronic Documents, Electronic Publishing, Writing Skill Reference * * * Under a tight deadline, see how one bestselling author leveraged AI to write a publishable full-length novel in two weeks. * * * Hey fellow authors! You’ve heard of this thing called AI (Artificial Intelligence) and I bet you have questions, such as: • How fast can an author write a publishable novel using AI? • Does using AI speed up the writing process? • Can AI help an author write consistently? • How does a writer adjust to using AI?...
By: Rachelle Ayala
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Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition
- A Guide to Narrative Craft
- By: Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades, it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft.
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Great content!
- By Noa on 09-20-19
By: Janet Burroway, and others
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The Mental Game of Writing: How to Overcome Obstacles, Stay Creative and Productive, and Free Your Mind for Success
- By: James Scott Bell
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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The keys to success as a writer are yours for the thinking! All success begins in the mind. For writers, the mind fuels the imagination and creates stories. But for authors who are productive and resilient, and see a good return on their efforts, there is another factor at work. They are winning the mental game of writing. Successful writers have the ability to inspire themselves to produce consistently, improve systematically, overcome obstacles and keep up a positive mental attitude. In this book, #1 bestselling writing teacher James Scott Bell takes you through the mental landscape of ...
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Virtual voice
- By Kindle Customer on 01-08-24
By: James Scott Bell
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The Business of Being a Writer
- By: Jane Friedman
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full- or part-time job out of writing are going to have a more positive and productive career if they understand the basic business principles underlying the industry.
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Unbelievably complete
- By Joy on 06-21-24
By: Jane Friedman
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Pity the Reader
- On Writing with Style
- By: Kurt Vonnegut, Suzanne McConnell
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the teacher. Here is pretty much everything Vonnegut ever said or wrote having to do with the writing art and craft, altogether a healing, a nourishing expedition.
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Unlistenable
- By Grant Swalwell on 01-06-20
By: Kurt Vonnegut, and others
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The Emotional Craft of Fiction
- How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
- By: Donald Maass
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters' struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you. That's where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers.
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Read this if you're a writer
- By Reed Ramlow on 08-08-20
By: Donald Maass
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- Bek
- 05-19-24
Her process was personal and well-written
She writes as she speaks. Her story was very personal and seemed very honest. Despite her, her pantser style, the sections flowed very well.
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