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By bestselling ghostwriter and book doctor with a top London literary consultancy

'This book should be used as a text in writing courses'

'There are shedloads of books on how to write novels, and a lot of them are longer and considerably less useful'

'I wish I'd had this book a long time ago'

'The author has a proven track record as a writer of fiction, as opposed to writers of "how to write" books'

Are you writing a novel? Do you want to make sure you finish? Will you get lost and fizzle out? Will you spend more time reading about how to write than actually getting the words down?

Most books on novel-writing will make you read hundreds of pages about character arcs, inciting incidents, heroes’ journeys. It’s great to know that – but while you’re reading about it you’re not writing your book.

And what these books don’t tell you is how to use this learning and get the job done.

Nail Your Novel is a writing buddy – and mentor - in a book.

In 10 easy steps it will tell you:
*how to shape your big idea and make a novel out of it
*how to do your research and how to use it
*how to organise your time.
*how to plot and build characters
*when you’re going to hit problems and what to do about them
*how to write on the days you don’t feel inspired
*how to reread what you’ve written and polish it.

Along the way, Thumbnail Notes give tutorials about storytelling and storycraft – strictly when you need them. The author has written nearly a dozen novels that have made it into print – and this is how she did it.

You don’t even need to read the whole book before you get started. You read a section, then do as it says. And, once you’re finally satisfied, Nail Your Novel will tell you how to sell it to publishers and agents.

You’ve dreamed of writing a novel. Don’t procrastinate with another theory book. Don’t launch in, get stuck and throw your hard work in a drawer. Nail your novel.

About the author
Roz Morris has nearly two decades of experience writing novels and helping floundering authors find their way. She is a senior book doctor for a major literary consultancy in London, writes fiction under her own name and has ghostwritten bestselling fiction for high-profile writers with major publishers, including Random House, Puffin and Mammoth.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004LROOEQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ MaxtrvNewcos (January 7, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 7, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 599 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
Reviewer: Melanie Marttila
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Writing craft book junkie LOVES Nail Your Novel
Review: I’ve been reading writing craft books for years. In fact, one could say that I’m a writing craft book junkie. Yes, the support group will be starting shortly.My approach in reading these books is to adopt those parts of the writer’s process that make sense to me and my ever-evolving process. I cherry pick, experiment, and incorporate as appropriate.I would characterize Roz’s approach as organic, that is, her plotting activities arise naturally from the journaling, research, and gestation that most writers will normally engage in as a preparation to actual writing.Her version of plotting will appeal to the avid pantser and her “gamification,” albeit non-technological, of structuring and plot-fixing activities will motivate even the most spreadsheet-phobic of writers. Having said that, plotting-oriented, or technophile writers will also find lots of tips and tricks to adapt for their use.The techniques in Nail Your Novel can be used not only from the inception of your novel, but the writer can also engage in the process at later stages of novel writing. Having entered into Roz’s methodology with already drafted novels, I’m working through her beat sheet activity, adapting it to my own use as I prepare for future revision.Roz even has activities to prepare the writer for querying or self-publication, whichever path the author chooses to pursue.I’ve also felt validated in several instances as bits and pieces of my existing process appear in slightly different forms throughout Nail Your Novel.For all the excellent content, Nail Your Novel is also a relatively quick read, well-organized, and easy to understand. Roz gets right to the heart of the matter and encourages reading writers to get their hands dirty, metaphorically speaking.Her writing style embodies what she asks writers to strive for: clear, informative, and entertaining. Roz doesn’t waste a word.Roz’s book receives my highest recommendation. It’s on my virtual writer’s shelf beside Ursula K. LeGuin’s, Jane Yolen’s, Donald Maass’s, and K.M. Weiland’s craft writing books and I’m sure I’ll be referring to it often.

Reviewer: K
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent resource for authors
Review: As a newer author, I found this book to have an amazing amount of information and fun exercises for plotting my next book!

Reviewer: Aisling D.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not my favorite, but one good idea makes this worthwhile
Review: I bought this along with several other fiction-related books, to enhance my story lines in "based on a true story" books.For me, this book was worthwhile for the cards game, to break down the plot into individual elements, and rearrange them for the best impact.The book's format... well, it's clearly based on the size and narrow margins of a novel. I wanted bigger pages and wider margins, for jotting notes in.The organization of the book was clearly a challenge for the author. I looked at the table of contents and scratched my head, trying to figure it out. Basically, I think she's trying to make the book super-easy to navigate if you're looking for just one thing.The editing took me by surprise. I hate to even mention that, because I'm guilty of the exact same problem... and that may be why the errors leaped off the page as I read it. (My own editing is vastly better than my writing is.)But, looking past that, the information in this book is diverse. It will probably solve at least one big problem for every author in every novel.I recommend it for anyone writing fiction, as a useful reference book. I'm not sure it's a book to read, cover-to-cover. It's a book to read until you find a great answer to why your novel has stalled, and how to fix it... and then get back to writing.And, though I wasn't happy with the size of this book, I'll admit that it fits nicely on the shelf, and it's easy to pick out when I want to consult it for a quick (and reliable) fix for something that's not working in my current book.

Reviewer: Debbie Steg
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Keys to Making Completion A Reality
Review: The only reason we never achieve a goal once we declare it and start to take action towards achieving that goal is because we encounter obstacles along the way and lack the tools or techniques to overcome them. The goal of completing a novel is no exception. Our subconscious beliefs get in the way, we get stuck and we stop. Too many unfinished potentially great novels are out there collecting dust in drawers somewhere instead of entertaining their audiences. And if you think out of sight out of mind, think again. Your subconscious keeps track of that unfinished novel. This wasted energy can effectively be rechanneled by simply applying the techniques presented in Nail Your Novel.Roz identifies the root causes of writing issues and effectively provides solutions. In fact, the techniques help you anticipate the potential obstacles before you confront them. Nail Your Novel effectively identifies the psychological pitfalls that can keep you from completing your novel and provides you with plenty of tools and techniques to move through them. It's like having your own writing therapist at hand, not to talk about your issues but to solve them. Not to dissect the problems but to dissolve the problems and move forward to completion.This brilliant little book gives you the tools, techniques and structure to use your subconscious, since it is the seat of your creativity, busy creating solutions instead of putting obstacles in your way. Nail Your Novel provides you with effective exercises at each step, from inspiration to completion, to keep your subconscious busy coming up with creative ideas for your novel instead of obstacles. And if you think that structure is limiting, it actually provides your subconscious with safe containers in which to allow creativity to thrive each step of the way. Nail Your Novel gives you techniques to anticipate potential obstacles down the writing road and finds clever ways around them before they become a problem. My personal favorite is the hat game. Simply playing the game paves the way for productive writing sessions.

Reviewer: TheBreeze
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Ottimo manuale di scrittura creativaIllustra i punti essenziali senza fronzoli, una guida molto utile per comprendere il processo creativo che porta alla stesura di un romanzoBreve, chiaro, essenzialeSolo in inglese

Reviewer: Rachel Capps
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A book full of fun ideas for first time novelists, and even bits for seasoned writers. I’ll be keeping this handy!

Reviewer: Pat
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: "Nail Your Novel" is a terrific book, chock full of practical advice for thickening your plot, getting over writer's block, etc. It goes through the mechanics and process of writing a novel, teaches you what makes for good storytelling, and offers help no matter at what stage of the process you are, nor how experienced you are. It is an easy read, very witty and inspirational. I know I'll use it - a lot!

Reviewer: Hosenbund
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Whatever is holding you back to buy this book, tie it up and throw it away. You have no need to let yourself be held back to buy this. I had to read it a second time. It has many helpful tips and is written very smoothly.Buy it and see for yourself what I mean.

Reviewer: Heather Mitchell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book is neither good nor bad; it's invaluable! Roz Morris IS the Creative Midwife.For me, this baby was in there, becoming more and more overdue. Fourteen years overdue. The thoughts were creating a dense cloud in my head that I knew had to be released before I went mad.What made me put away a half finished novel of 40,000 words for 14 years, I can't reveal. But it was traumatic and life-threatening. I allowed it to make me a creatively-challenged former writer for all those years. A has-been.This year, it was nothing less than write or creative death to me when I decided to write a new and very different novel for NaNoWriMo, a couple of weeks before the event started. Like a first-time mother, I began with no prior knowledge of the event or the aftermath. I had no draft, no outline, just that baby-dense cloud of unwritten work in my head on Day One. I studied my forty-strong books on writing for a clue. With Nail Your Novel, a new Kindle order, I found what I was looking for.Nail Your Novel gave me the power to get releasing, to stop holding on; to give birth to "that novel" burning a hole in my head/stomach/nerves. My inner critic a distant memory as I let 71,529 words of draft one flow.Roz has a clever, unpatronising, enouraging attitude borne of experience, ghost-writing ten novels and writing her own. She knows the process involved. She holds your hand as an equal. I'm prepared to trust her in this. And so, I've allowed NYN to hold my hand right through the process. I'm now at the second draft stage but, before I do that, I'm on to NYN's Beat Sheets (as practically helpful as NYN's Card Game) and it works for me. It's also a fun way of working. We don't have to be miserable in order to write.There are myriad books on writing out there - hey, borrow mine. Some, not all (I love Stephen King's On Writing, Dorothea Brande's If You Want To Write, Bird on Bird) will persuade you you can't spell, can't form a beginning, middle and end, can't write dialogue, can't do this, can't do that. And that there is a mystique, a secret, to successfully producing an end result. If midwives said that to every first-time mother, there'd be an awful lot of decades-long pregnancies out there. Like mine.What Nail Your Novel does is EXACTLY what it says on the cover! It assumes you know the basics of writing, like you know how to get pregnant, and, let's face it, most of us ordering writing books do have a clue how to write. It's the HOW, the actual working, of the first draft to the working of the final product that needs to be nailed.Hurrah. This book shows you that you CAN nail it. You can conceive the idea, you can write, and you can bear the result. It's a bit like labour: let it flow, let it happen, it's going to happen anyway, it doesn't have to be perfect. Get it written, give birth to something. You can fashion it in a balanced way afterwards. And here's how.Sorry to labour the point... but thank you, Nail Your Novel by Roz Morris, my Creative Midwife. I finished 50,000 words after 17 days with NaNoWriMo. I went on to write 71,529 words of my 1st draft by day 23 of my finger-flurry. What was born was definitely a baby, not even yet a toddler. It needs forming and shaping, in the way that we have to teach our children to become whole beings. So the rest is up to me, in the same way that motherhood was up to me.With the [...] website there is plenty of great aftercare, so let's not screw it up after such an amazing delivery.