30-Day Novel Series ~ Book One Would you like to have a road map for your month-long, novel-writing journey? Novel Notes invites you into the magic inside your mind and shows you how to make the writing magic happen. It offers you a blueprint for writing your novel and encourages you to bring forth and listen to all the totally wonderful novel ideas your muse whispers to you inside your mind and your imagination. Inside this guide to writing your novel, you'll find:

Premise, promise, and purpose of your novel;

The essential elements to include in your novel;

How to structure and sketch out your story;

Foreshadowing, flashbacks, and back story;

Story seeds-shaping and setting up your novel;

Three-act structure, hero's journey, and beat sheets;

How to develop your plot, subplots, and story line;

Brainstorms, road maps, and sketchy shapes;

Capturing your plot bunnies and random thoughts;

Setting, world-building, and staging your story;

Playing the "what if...?" game-situations and scenarios;

Creating your characters and making them come alive;

How to weave drama and conflict through your story;

How to create a compelling inciting incident; and

30 days of novel prompts and scene starters.

This workbook invites you to write your novel your way. ***This book is also available as part of a three-book box set ~ Novel Writer's Survival Guide: How to Write a 50,000-Word Novel in Thirty Days... and Live to Tell the Tale.