Marshall plan novel writing ebook

I highly recommend it for the aspiring and seasoned writer alike. These steps are broken down into five sections. The first tries to help with deciding what to write and which genre is best for you. Most writers already have an idea in mind when they buy this type of book, but just in case you don't, Marshall explains how to decide. Marshall breaks down the genres, and goes a step further by helpfully breaking each down into different sub-classifications. There are a surprising number of different types of books under each genre.

Section two, the Complete Guide to Plotting, guides the reader through taking a story idea and making it into a plot. Secondary plots, building characters, goals for both the protagonist and the villain, and every other aspect of novel writing are listed.

The last section on marketing is one of the most important. The thing to remember is that you don't have to take all the suggestions.

Pick and choose which are helpful to you. If you're a seat-of-the-pants writer, all of the planning and templates won't appeal, but there's more to the book than just Marshall's blueprint. The synopsis information included in the writing plan is a good example. I learned several new things from Marshall's book.

I like the section sheets, and how it makes it easier to plot things out. I like the systematic steps he had me take in preparing to write. He also laid out things very well and in an easy-to-understand way.

At times I felt like his suggestions were overly-simplistic. But, given a book this size, I felt like he did what he could in the space constraints. After all, this book is mainly for beginners, and so can't go into great depth on certain things. And while I don't agree with his approach to which sections "must" go where, he did give some very useful tips on plotting and using action and reaction sections.

His editing information was also generally bad advice. However, he is an agent, and not an editor. I find that it is more helpful to talk about general grammar ideas than about specifics, and to focus on the rhetoric impact of choices.

I also have a pet peeve about people who leave "little" words out of the text in some misguided attempt to speed up reading or comprehension. Finally, though, I really appreciated his information on queries and synopses since he is an agent and knows what he is looking for. Overall, it was a decent book for beginners to use, as long as they do more study and just do the writing to find what works best for them.

Don Incognito. This is a nuts-and-bolts, explicitly formulaic manual on writing a novel and getting it published. It is just as explicitly geared toward writing and publishing a genre fiction novel, not some creative work of art, imagination or literary skill. If you're not trying to write an eminently saleable genre fiction novel, this book is not essential reading. But no book on writing is worthless, and if you want any instruction on rational plotting--"section" sheets, "reaction sections," that sort of thing--at least look through it.

Peter West. Author 20 books 50 followers. This is a useful book for not surprisingly anyone who wants to write a novel. The sixteen steps approach is a bit too mechanistic for my liking but it is aimed at people who need walking through everything, like a bull led by the nose to slaughter. Saying that, it is useful to have all this detail to refer back to when it's needed. The book offers a look under the carpet where editors and agents hang out; the view may not be what you expected.

The concept of asking a publisher how many words they want in the story, and then hacking your masterpiece to fit it, seems pretty bizarre. The concept that you should set a goal to make your book the right size to fit in a box for delivery is repulsive. Still, the author does admit these pills may be bitter to swallow. It seems they are part of the dark grinding wheels of the publishing industry - the things that crawl beneath the damp carpet. All these things aside, the book does provide useful information, particularly on synopsis writing, finding agents, and producing a book that from day one is aimed at being marketable.

Some of the things it tells you to do, you may not like. Some of the things it tells you to do, you may not do. I suspect that with experience, much of this will be clarified into things for amateurs to worry about, but before breaking any rules, it's important to know what they are - and why you think you should break them. This book shows one way to write a novel.

Just remember it's not the only way. Towards the end of the book is a section on editing and polishing your work. It lists a couple of pages of very compacted information that in itself is probably worth as much as the previous hundred pages put together. Stephen P. An effective plan explained nicely. Many hate this book because it seems to reduce novel-writing a so-called art to a formula.

But this is simply one method, and there's no denying that a process is necessary for people who even bothered to read this book in the first place. Because if you're reading it, you're either new at novel-writing completely, having trouble finishing or starting a book, or having trouble selling the one you wrote.

Novel writing is a craft. The art is inherently built into the craft of creating your work. Even if you map out your twists and decide on rules for your ending. Get BOOK. Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish. Equip yourself for the novel-writing journey! Starting a novel is exciting, but finishing it--that's the real challenge. The journey from beginning to end is rife with forks in the road and dead ends that lead many writers off course.

The Marshall Plan Workbook. The Marshall Plan Workbook, companion volume to the very successful Marshall Plan for Novel Writing, focuses on building a novel's plot, with more than pages of fill-in sheets that become a veritable blueprint for each reader's novel.

The Marshall Plan Workbook pushes deeper into the process of writing a. Novel Writing: Imagination on The Page.