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30 Days to a Stronger Novel

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Author and writing teacher Darcy Pattison provides help and inspiration to revise your novel in 30 Days. Each day's entry includes:

  • Inspirational quotes
  • examples that illustrates the topic
  • Walk the Talk: easy, yet practical tips to immediately improve your novel
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
    1. Watership Down with Armadillos: Titles
    2. Search Me: Subtitles
    3. Defeat Interruptions: Chapter Divisions
    4. Scarlett or Pansy: The Right Character Name
    5. My Wound is Geography: Stronger Settings
    6. Horse Manure: Stronger Setting Details
    7. Weaklings: Every Character Must Matter
    8. Take Your Character's Pulse
    9. Yin-Yang: Connecting Emotional and Narrative Arcs
    10. Owls and Foreigners: Unique Character Dialogue
    11. Sneaky Shoes: Inner and Outer Character Qualities
    12. Friends or Enemies? Consistent Character Relationships
    13. Set Up the Ending: Begin at the Beginning
    14. Bang, Bang! Ouch! Scene Cuts
    15. Go Away! Take a Break
    16. Power Abs for Novels
    17. White Rocks Lead Me Home: Epiphanies
    18. The Final Showdown
    19. One Year Later: Tie up Loose Ends
    20. Great Deeds: Find Your Theme
    21. The Wide, Bright Lands: Theme Affects Setting
    22. Raccoons, Owls, and Billy Goats: Theme Affects Characters
    23. Side Trips: Choosing Subplots
    24. Of Parties, Solos, and Friendships: Knitting Subplots Together
    25. Feedback: Types of Critiquers
    26. Feedback: What You Need from Readers
    27. Stay the Course
    28. Please Yourself First
    29. The Best Job I Know to Do
    30. Live. Read. Write.

    About the Author: Writing teacher, author and blogger Darcy Pattison teaches a Novel Revison Retreat nationwide and alumni of her class often go on to snag contracts for their first book. (darcypattison.com/speaking). Her Fiction Notes blog (darcypattison.com) has been ready by over a million writers seeking to improve their fiction. Her other books for writers include Start Your Novel, How to Write a Children's Picture Book, Novel Metamorphosis: Uncommon Ways to Revise, and The Book Trailer Manual. Recent teacher resource books for teaching writing to kids include Common Core ELA Activities: Month by Month Writing, Speaking and Listening Activities Aligned with the Common Core, What is Common Core?, and Writing for the Common Core. As an author, Pattison has won numerous awards for her children's books including the Irma and James Black Picture Book Honor award, an Outstanding Science Trade book award, the Writer's Digest Self Published Award for Picture Books, Indie-Gen award for juvenile nonfiction, and starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, and BCCB. She is the 2007 recipient of the Arkansas Governor's Arts Award for her work in Children's Literature. For more, see darcypattison.com/about Other titles by Darcy Pattison The River Dragon The Wayfinder The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman Searching for Oliver K. Woodman 19 Girls and Me Prairie Storms Desert Baths Scary Slopes Kentucky Basketball Saucy and Bubba: A Hansel and Gretel Tale Vagabonds The Girl, the Gypsy and the Gargoyle Wisdom, the Midway Albatross: Surviving the Japanese Tsunami and other Disasters for Over 60 years Abayomi, the Brazilian Puma: The True Story of an Orphaned Cub The Aliens Inc. Series: Kell, the Alien Kell and the Horse Apple Parade Kell and the Giants Forthcoming, Spring 2015 Aliens, Inc. Series, Book 4: Kell and the Detectives I Want a Dog: My Persuasive Essay I Want a Cat: My Persuasive Essay Looking for Normal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781629440408
  • Publisher: Mims House
  • Publisher Imprint: Mims House
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 124
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 162944040X
  • Publisher Date: 05 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 131 gr


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