Eat the Elephant: How to Write (and Finish!) Your Book One Bite at a Time

How do you write a novel? Just like eating an elephant. One bite at a time.

There are plenty of books on individual pieces of craft. The hard part is translating what you read into your own manuscript, and knowing whether you're doing it right.

If any of these sound familiar, this book is for you:

• Every book feels like starting from scratch. How do I write one without reinventing the wheel?
• There are so many pieces to juggle. Where do I even begin?
• I get partway through and then I get stuck.
• How do I write faster without writing worse?
• There's so much to remember. How do I make sure I hit everything that matters?
• How do I write a book readers tell their friends about?

The Novel Blueprint method gives you every major component you need to build a novel, with room left for surprise and the joy of discovery. You'll write faster because you won't be rewriting and deleting. When you sit down, you'll know what you're writing that day.

You'll also write a better book, with characters readers believe in and arcs that pull them forward, and you'll have a method that works again on the next one.

Every chapter ends with an Apply It! exercise, so you're building your own book as you read instead of taking notes about someone else's. The downloadable Novel Blueprint is yours free.

Jen Crosswhite has spent [X] years as a developmental editor and author, teaching this method to writers at every stage.

Start your novel today.