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Novel in Nine 2020 - BASIC
Welcome to Novel in Nine
Welcome to Novel in Nine!
Helpful Information
Curriculum
Recommended Books on Writing
If you have a novel-in-progress, read this
A note on software
General Peer-to-Peer Discussion
Discussion Area
Notes on Process and Answers to Common Questions
Organizing digital and physical files
What's a premise?
January, Week 1: Finding Your What-if
Before We Begin
Week 1 Lesson & Assignment: Situation and Story
Week 1 Video (7:32)
Download: The Big Questions Worksheet
Download: Week 1 Checklist
25 Quick Writing Prompts
Week 2
Week 2: Understanding Your Protagonist
Week 2 Video - Revealing Your Character (8:45)
Download - Checklist Weeks 2-3
Week 3
Week 3 Protagonist, Part 2: Obstacles & Influences
Week 3: Writing background: How much should you include? (video) (6:49)
Week 3 Word Count Notes & Encouragement (2:19)
Week 4
Week 4: Urgency & Change (Video) (5:49)
Week 4: How to find your novel's urgency
Week 4 Process: Do you need special novel writing software? (Video) (7:10)
Week 4 Discussion
Weeks 5
Week 5: Setting your novel in time and place (Video) (9:29)
Week 5: Setting - Giving your reader a place to land
Checklist: Weeks 4 & 5
One-month cheers and check-in (0:47)
Week 6
Week 6: Down the Rabbit Hole and Out Again: Enlivening Your Novel with Research
Week 6 Video: Research (9:17)
Week 7 : Point of View
Week 7: What You Need to Know about Point of View
Week 7: Whose story is it? Zeroing in on Point of View (Video) (8:56)
Week 7: How to handle multiple points of view (video) (18:12)
Checklist, Weeks 6 - 7
Week 8
Week 8: How to write a scene
Week 8: Showing up on the days you don't feel inspired (video) (5:39)
Week 9
Week 9: The Secret Structure
Week 9 Download: Plot Balance Worksheet
Week 9 Video:: Organizing your novel with Scrivener (15:31)
Download: Checklist Weeks 8-9
Word Count Check-in
Week 10
Week 10: Constructing Scenes & Chapters
Week 10: What You Need to Know About Scenes and Chapters (video) (16:39)
Weeks 11 & 12
Week 11: 17 Essential Scenes (Video) (2:24)
Week 11 Download: Foundational Scene List
Download: Weeks 10 & 11 Checklist
Week 11 Download: Scene Type List
Week 12: Close Connections & Emotional Intimacy (Primary Positive Relationship)
Encouragement: Give yourself 30 minutes
Week 12
Week 12 note
Week 13
Week 13: Fun with Subplots
Week 13 Video: Subplot (3:18)
Download: Weeks 12 & 13 Checklist
Lockdown video: Creating ebooks with Vellum (15:57)
Week 14
Week 14: The Art of the Sentence
More Writing Prompts for Days When You Feel Stuck
Developing Your Narrative Voice (video) (11:00)
March Word Count Check-in
Week 15
Week 15: Tell Me More (Really)
Week 15 Video: Why You Have to Show AND Tell (18:42)
Download: Checklist, Weeks 16-17
Week 16
Week 16: Finding Your Novel's Ideal Pace
Week 16 Video - Pacing (5:34)
Download: Checklist Weeks 14-15
Week 16 Discussion
Week 16 Share Space
Week 17
Week 17 Video - Patterning & Pacing (7:46)
Week 17: Establishing Narrative Patterns
Week 18
Week 18: Taking Stock
Halfway Point Cheers & Check-in (Video) (1:33)
Download: Week 18 Progress Report Checklist
Halfway Point: Your Questions
Where do you write? (video) (7:06)
Share a passage from your novel
Week 19
Get them talking
How to Write Great Dialogue (Video) (7:45)
Download: Weeks 19-20 Checklist
Background (optional video originally scheduled for Week 28) (6:49)
Week 20
Week 20: Understanding Your Antagonist
Not Your Usual Bad Guy - Dispelling Myths About Antagonists (7:46)
Weeks 21
Week 21: Plot by the Numbers (11:40)
Week 21: Download: Plot by the Numbers PDF
August Word Count Check-in
Week 22
Week 22: What are you trying to say? Notes on Theme
More notes on theme (video) (13:10)
Week 22: Notes on Theme Audio Version
Week 23
Week 23: Notes on Process: Discovering your narrative map
Week 23, Discovering Your Narrative Map, Audio Version
Download: Weeks 22 - 23 Checklist
May Word Count Check-in
Week 24
week 24: The Art of Description and Suggestion
Week 24: What makes a significant detail? (video) (8:45)
Week 25
Week 25: The Art of Suspense: Planting Many Seeds
Week 25: Beyond the Nail-Biter: Developing Suspense in Any Genre (video) (12:05)
Download: Suspense Check Worksheet
Week 26
Writing the Middle (video) (13:30)
Week 26: The power of vulnerability in writing
Finding Inspiration Where You Are: Writing While Traveling & at Home (video) (6:07)
Week 27
Week 27: "Sudden & Consequential:" The Novel's Most Important Scene
Advice on Writing the Climax (Video) (5:32)
June Word Count Check-in
Week 28
Week 28; Chapter Length, Where You're Headed, & More
How to handle background (video) (6:49)
Week 29
Week 29: A Sense of an Ending
Week 29: What Your Ending Should Do (video) (6:56)
Week 29: Further Reading on Endings
Week 30
Week 30: A Model Climax for Study, and the Denouement
Week 31
Week 31 Video: Fleshing Out Skeletal Scenes (7:38)
Week 31: Deepening Scenes
July Word Count Check-in
Week 32
Week 32 Assignment: The Final Chapter
Week 32: Notes on Genre (Video) (12:48)
Week 33
Week 33: Crafting the Unforgettable Title
Video: Titles in Publishing, plus the Final Push (10:38)
Please share your title!
Week 34
Addition, Subtraction, & Stages of Revision
Video: How to Make Your Novel (Even) Better Through Revision (13:51)
Week 33: Genre-Bending: Writing the Cross-Genre Novel
Week 35
The Reward of Exhaustion: Next Steps for Revision
Week 36
Inside My Revision Process (Video) (19:03)
Sentence-by-Sentence Revision
Last word count check-in
Week 37
Video: How I Found An Agent & Got Published (A Long Story) (26:52)
Manuscript Basics (Download)
Do Publishing Trends Matter?
Week 38
Download: Querying Literary Agents Worksheet
How to Find a Literary Agent (11:50)
Week 39
What to Look for in a Publishing Contract
Parting Thoughts
Video - Congratulations, Catching Up, & Writing On (10:37)
Discussion
Week 40
Video - Writing & Keeping Faith in Your Novel Through Rejection (21:27)
Next Steps
Winter Writing Reboot
Week 7: How to handle multiple points of view (video)
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