Outlining Your Story

To Outline or Not to Outline Your Novel? A large part of writing a fiction book is not so much the writing, but about learning how to take an idea and turn it into...

A plotter is an author who outlines his or her novel before he or she begins writing. These authors tend to know who their characters are and where the book is going...

Author and Agent Jamie Brenner shares thoughts on how to develop an idea into a full-blown story that people want to live in for a while. Brenner understands telling...

Author and Agent Jamie Brenner shares thoughts on how to develop an idea into a full blown story that people want to live in for a while. Brenner understands telling...

Eric Penz, thriller author of titles such as Cryptid: The Lost Legacy of Lewis and Clark and Courage Between, makes the case that every author outlines, whether they...