Novel Writer's Survival Guide

How to Write a 50,000-Word Novel in Thirty Days... and Live to Tell the Tale

By: Judi Cameron

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Maybe you’re thinking about writing a 50,000-word novel in a month. Would you like to know what you’re getting yourself into?

NOVEL WRITER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE offers a lighthearted—and little bit crazy—look at writing a 50,000-word novel in a month. It offers everything you need to know, and probably more than a few things you don’t want to know, about writing a novel in 30 days. Invites you into the magic inside your mind and shows you how to make the writing magic happen. It offers a workbook for planning your novel and a road map for your month-long, novel-writing journey. It encourages you to bring forth and listen to all your totally wonderful, magnificent novel ideas that your muse whispers inside your mind and your imagination. Inside this 30-day guide to writing your novel, you’ll find:

• The essential elements to include in your novel;
• Premise, promise, and purpose of your novel;
• Story seeds—shaping and setting up your novel;
• How to structure and sketch out your story;
• Three-act structure, hero’s journey, and beat sheets;
• Setting, world-building, and creating your characters;
• Capturing your plot bunnies and random thoughts;
• How to develop your plot, subplots, and story line;
• Foreshadowing, flashbacks, and back story;
• Brainstorms, road maps, and sketchy shapes.
• How to prep for a 30-day writing marathon;
• What you should do if your muse goes missing;
• The secret to writing a novel in thirty days;
• The truth about writer’s block and brain burn-out;
• Dreaming... how to write your story in your sleep;
• Visualizing... seeing things that aren’t really there;
• Positive pep talks and a 30-day doubt dialog; and
• How to open your imagination and set it free.

Writerly words of wisdom are interspersed throughout the book. There’s also a magical word fairy running through the pages.

When I decided to write a novel in thirty days, it was just for a lark—an interesting way to challenge myself and to see if I could actually do it. What I didn't know when I started was that not only did I discover I could write a decent, cohesive first draft of a novel in thirty days, but that an idea for another book would be born during that time—a nonfiction "how-to" for writing a 50,000-word novel in thirty days, which you're reading about right now.

You can do this! You can write a novel in a month!