7 Essential Keys to Planning Your Novel: Writer's Fun Zone, #5

By Beth Barany and Ezra Barany

Are you having a hard time getting started with your novel?

 

Stuck on how to get started?

 

Do you wonder how to write a novel while you're also busy with other commitments? Do you wonder how to find time to write?

 

7 Essential Keys to Planning Your Novel: Story Preparation for Pantsers is designed for the writer with a life, and for the writer who likes writing by the seat of their pants, but wants a little bit of direction.

 

In this book, you'll uncover:

• Short exercises in doable in small, manageable bite-sized pieces; each chapter can be done in as little as 15-20 minutes.
• Exercises on character development and story and world building.
• A unique way to develop conflict in your story for pantsers.
• A simple tool to design your plot.

You can plan your novel in a way that fits into your life. We know, because we've done it, many times.

 

Welcome to this 7-lesson series on preparing or planning your novel for Nanowrimo (or anytime.)

 

For experienced writers or ambitious new writers who want to plan their novel in an organic or step-by-step way, so that on Nov. 1st you can start writing it alongside the NaNoWriMo community.

 

With 7 Essential Keys to Planning Your Novel: Story Preparation for, you'll be able to:

•   Plan your novel

•   Step into a sense of satisfaction and creative accomplishment

•   Get excited for NaNoWriMo

•   Believe that you can write a novel

 

This book is good for you:

 

If you have never written a novel, and have always wanted to, and still feel lost on how to go from brilliant idea to The End, then you will be stretched in new and different ways.

 

If you're an experienced novelist, with 1 or 2 completed or partially completed novels under your bed, and you're stuck somehow. You may find this book structured in a way that's new to you and yet familiar.

 

If you have 5 or more unfinished novels sitting in a drawer, and always hit that sagging middle and lose focus or lose interest, this course will help you dream up exciting ways to torture, I mean challenge, your characters all the way to the resolution of the story.

 

This book is by award winning authors and founders of Barany School of Fiction: Beth Barany, certified creativity coach for writers, writing teacher, workshop leader, and novelist; and, Ezra Barany, novelist, teacher, and mentor.

 

Comes with a Bonus Pack. Sign up for it!

 

If you'd like to get feedback on your story, make connections, be in community with over 300 other writers, then join us at the fellowship of the Pen community by signing up for bonus pack at the back of book.

 

** A short and sweet instruction booklet to help you plan your novel so you can write it with confidence, clarity, and compassion. **

• Language: English
• Publisher: Writer's Fun Zone Publishing
• Release date: Sep 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781944841355

Beth Barany

Award winning author, Beth Barany writes in several genres including young adult adventure fantasy, paranormal romance, and soon science fiction mysteries.Inspired by living abroad in France and Quebec, she loves creating magical tales of romance, mystery, and adventure that empower women and girls to be the heroes of their own lives.For fun, Beth enjoys walking her neighborhood, gardening on her patio, and watching movies and traveling with her husband, author Ezra Barany. They live in Oakland, California with a piano, their cats, and over 1,000 books.When not writing or playing, Beth runs her own company helping novelists as a book coach, speaker, and teacher to help them write, market, and publish their books to the delight of their readers.FICTIONCheck out her award-winning sci-fi mystery series, JANEY MCCALLISTER MYSTERY, about intrepid space station investigator. While each book is a standalone murder mystery, it's most fun to be read in order. Because subplots.INTO THE BLACK, Book 1LURED BY LIGHT, Book 2GONE GREEN, Book 3RED RUNNING DEEP, Book 4Check out her series award-winning trilogy, HENRIETTA THE DRAGON SLAYER:HENRIETTA THE DRAGON SLAYER, Book 1HENRIETTA AND THE DRAGON STONE, Book 2HENRIETTA AND THE BATTLE OF THE HORSE MESA, Book 3Check out her Magical Tales of Romance and Mystery in the TOUCHSTONE Series:Touchstone of Love (Touchstone, #1)A Christmas Fling (Touchstone, #2)Parisian Amour (Touchstone, #3)A Labyrinth of Love and Roses (Touchstone, #4)A Cupcake Christmas (Touchstone, #5)"Travel into a novel to come back home to you."READERS START HERE for a free book: https://author.bethbarany.com/free-books/NONFICTION FOR WRITERS: Barany School of Fiction seriesTwitter for Authors: Social Media Book Marketing Strategies for Shy WritersThe Writer's Adventure Guide: 12 Stages to Writing Your Book (for Novelists and Creative Nonfiction Writers)Overcome Writer's Block: A Self-Guided Creative Writing Class to Get You Writing AgainMastering Deep Point of View by Alice Gaines (Publisher)Plan Your Novel Like A Pro: And Have Fun Doing It! by Beth and Ezra BaranyConnect with Beth on the social channels:TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/beth_baranyFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/bethbaranyLINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethbarany/WRITERS, START HERE: Free ebook for writers: 10 Ways To Generate Ideas: https://bethbaranyschooloffiction.teachable.com/p/10-ways-ebook

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7 Essential Keys to Planning Your Novel

7 Essential Keys to Planning Your Novel

7 Essential Keys to Planning Your Novel

Story Preparation for Pantsers

Beth Barany

Ezra Barany

Writer’s Fun Zone Publishing

Copyright 2014-2020 by Beth Barany and Ezra Barany

Material first published on Writer’s Fun Zone blog.

Published by Writer’s Fun Zone Publishing, 771 Kingston Ave., Suite #108, Piedmont, CA 94611

Other Titles for Writers with Beth Barany

The Writer’s Adventure Guide: 12 Stages to Writing Your Book

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Overcome Writer’s Block: 10 Writing Sparks to Ignite Your Creativity, A Self-Guided Creative Writing Class to Get You Writing Again

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Twitter for Authors: Social Media Book Marketing Strategies for Shy Writers

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Writing Romance: The Ultimate Guide on Craft, Creation and Industry Connections (Editor)

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Plan Your Novel Like A Pro: And Have Fun Doing It! (Co-written with Ezra Barany)

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Mastering Deep Point of View by Alice Gaines (Editor)

There are many ways to write a novel. The best one is the one that gets you writing!

Beth Barany

Contents

Introduction

Essential Key #1

Start with Your Elevator Pitch

Essential Key #2

Write Your Story Synopsis

Essential Key #3

Prepare Your Characters

Essential Key #4

Build Your Story World

Essential Key #5

Brainstorm Your Plot and Story

Essential