Chapter 1 Typing Your First Lines: Encourages you to find out why you want to write, how to find the passion, meaning and reason in the tale you want to tell and how to prepare yourself to write. Chapter 2 Fact & Fiction: Once you've discovered why you want to write, you need to know what kind of writing you want to do, fact or fiction. Chapter 3 Digging Up The Archives: Gives you an idea how to research, what to research and why to research. Chapter 4 Dreaming & Scheming: Explores planning your writing and how to plot your story. Chapter 5 Beginnings, Middles & Endings: Gives you information on how to construct your beginning, the middle and the end of your book. Chapter 6 The Writers Dance: We discuss how to pace your novel. How fast or slow do you want the reader to read the whole book, each chapter, or each scene? Chapter 7 People & Places: Focusses on people and places - i.e. the characters in your plot and the settings that you want them to perform in. Chapter 8 Speeches & Soliloquies Characters need to be expressed through the dialogue they use and this is explored in Chapter 8. Chapter 9 Drafting & Revising: Explains what to do when drafting and how to revise your work. Chapter 10 Skip To The End: Discusses how to end your story. Knowing when to stop is as important as knowing where to begin. A free Resource Guide comes with this book.