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How to Fix Your Novel

By: Steve Alcorn
Narrated by: Steve Alcorn
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About this listen

Have you started a novel, only to get part way into the manuscript and find yourself stuck? Or do you have an idea for a novel, but aren't sure where to begin? Have you completed a first draft, but feel it doesn't quite have the luster of professional writing?

In this lively and fun-to-listen guide, Steve Alcorn shows you the remedies you need to achieve success. Step by step, you'll breathe life into old manuscripts, create new novels that read like bestsellers, and put the spark back into your writing life. Topics include:

  • Story Structure
  • Character Building
  • Viewpoint
  • Tense
  • Voice
  • Setting
  • Conflict
  • Suspense
  • Mystery
  • Dialogue
  • Writing Big
  • Beginnings and Endings
  • Getting Published

Whether you're a first time novelist still planning your story, or an experienced author looking for ways to bring your fiction to life, How to Fix Your Novel is the ideal prescription.

©2012 Steve Alcorn (P)2013 Steve Alcorn Words, Language & Grammar Writing & Publishing Fiction

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Great book that sums up outlining, scene structure, writing techniques but also has lots of great examples and excercises. It is good book for work in progress or before you even start, not a book on editing as the title might suggest, although it can be used for that also.

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