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Synopsis
Proven techniques for writing a high-quality first draft fast!
Novel Shortcuts shows you how to quickly write a first draft that's also rich and engrossing. (It's really possible!) Through detailed instruction and valuable exercises, award-winning novelist Laura Whitcomb addresses everything from premise development to foreshadowing to tone and beyond. You'll uncover shortcut strategies and tools like:
- A four-step approach for crafting stronger scenes
- Plot-planning devices, including plot webs, timelines, and plot menus
- Guidelines for building your story around essential crosshair moments
- Comprehensive checklists featuring quick fixes to common story gaffes relating to plot, character, voice and style, setting, description, and more
Plus, learn how to stay committed to and enthusiastic about your project as you develop it from a new idea to a complex and realistic story. Novel Shortcuts is your roadmap to a smooth and expedient writing process!
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About the Author
Laura Whitcomb is the award-winning author of the novels A Certain Slant of Light and The Fetch. Her previous writing book, Your First Novel, was co-authored by literary agent Ann Rittenberg.
www.laurawhitecomb.com
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- PublisherWriter's Digest Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1582975671
- ISBN 13 9781582975672
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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