{"product_id":"2940014169288","title":"MUSE TO MANUSCRIPT: WRITE A NOVEL","description":"There is no one way to write a book, particularly a novel. But if you’ve never written anything with the goal of publication before (or just to finish it to share with friends and family), you’ve got to know where to start, right? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery writer has a different sequence in which they do things, in what they feel is important, and in the way they present information on writing a novel. What one person tells you to do isn’t necessarily going to make the road easier than a new wrinkle remover is actually going to turn back your physical clock a decade or more. But, just like the face cream, you won’t know if something will work for you when it comes to writing until you try it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMulti-published novelist Beth Daniels (aka Beth Henderson, J.B. Dane, Nied Darnell, Lisa Dane, Beth Cruise) stumbled along the same roads once herself and knows where some of the potholes novelists fall into most frequently lie. And she’s willing to share the info, too, with language that has been described as talking at the kitchen table rather than academically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThings covered in MUSE TO MANUSCRIPT -- WRITE A NOVEL are:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Which genre best fits your story idea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Considering who your audience is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• How long a novel actually needs to be in word count\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Great openings and conclusions need something between them –  lots of smaller bits for the middle of the story\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Learning from inadvertent mentors – your favorite authors – and creating a guideline from your favorite books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• To plot or not to plot ahead of time with guidelines on building a story either way\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Dividing the plot to conquer it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Easy steps to plot by and the importance of action-reaction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Types of research likely to be needed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• A brief guide to formatting and proposal packages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Creating characters – main, secondary and thirdenary ones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Sorting out POVs (points of view)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• World building for fantasy, romance, or mystery stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Reasons why everything needs a backstory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• In fact, reasons why doing some things are necessary and why others can be a choice of what works best for you!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniels is quite active in the online writing workshop community and MUSE TO MANUSCRIPT is a combination of things from different workshops (including a year long one where participants were working on their first book length piece of fiction) and from answers she gave to questions asked in workshops.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRather than advocate the beginning novelist plot everything out before writing word one, or totally spinning the tale as it spills from your keyboard or pen (also known as being a Pantser or Organic writer), Daniels leaves the choice up to the writer, although she advocates a middle-of-these-roads approach she calls The Game Plan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniels lays a number of cards on the table for a writer to choose from. The presentation is open, personable, and attempts to avoid words that might be heard in a classroom. As a genre writer she prefers “hero” and “heroine” to protagonist, and the antagonist is the “villain”, whether it be a character or a situation that challenges the main character or characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you’ve ever felt lost when it comes to writing the novel you’ve dreamed about creating, MUSE TO MANUSCRIPT could well be the book to turn you from want-to-be-writer into someone who can cross this goal off their list of resolutions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s time to move from pre-published to being a published novelist!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMUSE TO MANUSCRIPT is the first in a planned series of Fiction Aids for Writers. It was previously published as SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A NOVEL: WRITING YOUR FIRST BOOK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeth Daniels is also the author of WRITING STEAMPUNK, a guide to writing Steampunk fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor other books about the writing process by Beth Daniels visit www.Muse2Ms.com or for fiction written under her pseudonym of Beth Henderson, visit www.RomanceAndMystery.com.","brand":"3 Media Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070513889520,"sku":"2940014169288","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014169288_p0.jpg?v=1763602228","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014169288","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}