You should read this book if you get lost in the weeds of writing and revision because portions of your novel are in different phases of the writing process.
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Annalisa Parent
Annalisa Parent teaches writing workshops across the country. She is the editor of Chair & Pen: Musings on Writing and the Writing Life, and an Undergraduate and Graduate Professor of English at Norwich University. A magna cum laude graduate of Middlebury College’s English Department & Creative Writing …
Read MoreJohn David Mann
coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Red Circle and the bestselling classic The Go-Giver
Read MoreWrite to Discover
You should read this book if you need to write to discover your story. (“I just watch my characters and write down what they do.”)
Read MoreJump around
You should read this book if you write chapter 1. And then chapter 5. And then chapter 2. etc.
Read MoreAre still on chapter one
You should read this book if you have started a novel at least 68 times (the same novel) and only written the first chapter
Read MoreStorytelling for Pantsers
WHAT IS A PANTSER?
Briefly put, a panster is someone who writes by the seat of his pants (or briefs, if you’re that kind of guy. Hey, no judgments here.)
He–or she –is the writer who, like Spock and Bones, goes “where no man has gone before:” the unchartered territory of a novel without an outline.
Scary? Sure. An adventure? Always.
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