Troubleshooting Your Novel: Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems by James, Steven
Troubleshooting Your Novel: Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems by James, Steven

Troubleshooting Your Novel: Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems

Take your story to the next level of excellence You've completed the first draft of your novel--now...
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Author: Steven James
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Troubleshooting Your Novel: Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems by James, Steven

Troubleshooting Your Novel: Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems

$52.83
Troubleshooting Your Novel: Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems by James, Steven

Troubleshooting Your Novel: Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems

$52.83
Author: Steven James
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Take your story to the next level of excellence

You've completed the first draft of your novel--now what? Chances are, it's not perfect...at least not yet. In order to increase your chances of getting a literary agent, selling your manuscript to a publisher, or garnering an audience for your self-published work, you need targeted, practical instruction on tackling the problem areas and weak spots in your story. You need Troubleshooting Your Novel.

In this hand-on, easy-to-use guide, award-winning author Steven James provides helpful techniques and checklists, timesaving tricks of the trade, and hundreds of questions for manuscript analysis and revision. You'll learn how to:

- ADJUST elements of story progression, from causality, tension, and setbacks to plot twists, climaxes, and endings.
- DEVELOP authentic, riveting characters by exploring their attitudes, desires, beliefs, and more.
- LEARN narrative techniques for elements such as dialogue, flashbacks, suspense, voice, subtext, and flow.
- ENSURE reader engagement by aligning with their expectations, fulfilling promises, and instilling trust.
- CHECK issues with context and continuity.
You owe your book more than just a polish and a proofread. Strengthen your story, prepare it for the marketplace, and make it the best it can be with Troubleshooting Your Novel.

Author: Steven James
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Published: 09/20/2016
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781599639802

About the Author
Steven James is the best-selling, critically acclaimed author of thirteen novels. He has a master's degree in storytelling and is a contributing editor to Writer's Digest.

Best known for his psychological thrillers, he has received more than a dozen honors and awards for his books, including three Christy Awards for best suspense. His novel The Queen was a finalist for an International Thriller Award.

Steven's groundbreaking book on the craft of fiction, Story Trumps Structure: How to Write Unforgettable Fiction by Breaking the Rules, won a 2015 Storytelling World Award, recognizing it as one of the year's best resources for storytellers. He is the host of the podcast "The Story Blender," in which he interviews great storytellers from the world of cinema, oral performance, and writing about the craft of great storytelling.

Steven leads regular Novel Writing Intensive retreats around the country that provide in-depth instruction for serious novelists. For information on these seminars, visit www.novelwritingintensive.com.

For information on his fiction, visit www.stevenjames.net.

To book him to speak, e-mail info@stevenjames.net.
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