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 100 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 scene by scene. Readers will learn to craft intriguing story goals and compelling conflicts all within a specific framework that enables them to produce any type of novel in a systematic yet creative way. They'll also learn the ins-and-outs of selling their work once it's finished.
* Lively, interactive approach makes the book fun as well as educational * Easy-to-follow instruction takes the mystery--but not the creativity--out of writing a novel
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
the best advice for how to write a novel:
I have read other books about how to write a novel, but, this is the best organized method I have come across. The advice is sound and the terminology makes the process of writing a novel clear and understandable.
It worked for me!:
I want to give credit where credit is due. When I set out to plot my novel, Latter-Day Cipher: A Novel, I bought this workbook, filled it out, and used it to choose the number of characters and when to insert "surprises." After that, I took the paperback copy of the what I thought was the best suspense novel I'd ever read--The Silence of the Lambs- and outlined it, noting the number of pages for each scene, etc, noting what The Marshall Plan had said. Did it work? My novel is currently a... more info
OK way to structure your fiction writing project:
Getting long in the tooth (the book and me both) but it's a way to approach writing a novel. It's a workbook with lists. Don't rush into it but don't ignore it.
If you want to write fiction, you need this book.:
Evan Marshall explains everything you need to know to get started with your novel. It may be too elementary for experienced writers, but it's exactly what the beginner needs. He not only tells you what to do but shows you how to do it. For instance, all the how-to books say to use a header; this workbook shows you what the header should look like. Marshall's charts for characters and plot make sense of the rhetoric, and his blueprint will move the novel along to completion. This is the clearest, most... more info
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