The Ten Day Outline: A Writer's Guide to Planning A Novel in Ten Days (The Ten Day Novelist)
The Ten Day Outline: A Writer's Guide to Planning A Novel in Ten Days (The Ten Day Novelist) book cover

The Ten Day Outline: A Writer's Guide to Planning A Novel in Ten Days (The Ten Day Novelist)

Paperback – June 24, 2019

Price
$14.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
164
Publisher
The Novel Smithy, LLC
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1733207904
Dimensions
5 x 0.37 x 8 inches
Weight
6.2 ounces

Description

About the Author Lewis Jorstad is a writer, author, and book coach, a lover of reading and travel, and a child at heart living in central Virginia. He hopes to visit every country in the world before he dies, but for now he spends his time teaching up-and-coming writers the skills they need to create compelling, successful novels--all from the comfort of his blue couch.

Features & Highlights

  • You wouldn’t take a road trip without a map. Why write a novel without one?
  • Writing a novel feels like it should be easy. You’ve got plenty of inspiration, characters who won’t stop telling you what they want, and a blank page ready for your masterpiece—so why are you stuck?From juggling plots and subplots, to crafting characters and fleshing out a fictional world, your story can feel like a puzzle you’ll never fit together. What’s worse, you can’t shake the feeling that after all this work you might be left with an unpublishable mess…Enter
  • The Ten Day Outline
  • .By strategically planning your novel, you can create a custom-built map of your story to help you navigate the many twists and turns that come with the writing process. Best of all, having an outline is the key to writing your novels faster—and you only need ten days to create your own!
  • By the end of this ten-day challenge, you’ll have:
  • Developed a vibrant cast of engaging characters your readers won’t want to part with.
  • Developed a vibrant cast of
  • engaging characters
  • your readers won’t want to part with.
  • Solved your trickiest plot holes and found the core of your story with my “Question Method.”
  • Solved your trickiest plot holes
  • and found the core of your story with my “Question Method.”
  • Created an in-depth master outline to guide you towards a more polished first draft.
  • Created an in-depth master outline to guide you towards
  • a more polished first draft.
  • Learned to tap into your inspiration, even when your muse seems far away.
  • Learned to tap into your inspiration, even when your muse seems far away.
  • Gathered the storytelling tools you need to bring your dream novel to life!
  • Gathered the storytelling tools you need to
  • bring your dream novel to life!
  • Packed with daily tasks, easy-to-follow prompts, and handy checklists to track your progress,
  • The Ten Day Outline
  • takes fiction authors from inspiration to action. By the end, you’ll be ready to write a rock-solid first draft that’s well on its way to becoming a fan-favorite novel.Ready to fulfill your writing dreams? It’s time to kick overwhelm to the curb with
  • The Ten Day Outline
  • !

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Overwhelmed by Outlining? ...Not Anymore!

As a recent converter to outlining, I wasn’t sure where to begin. Having finished The Ten Day Outline, I have a new perspective on the outlining process—which I’m grateful for!

Lewis breaks down every aspect of his process with terminology and examples that even new writers can understand. It’s extremely useful for the new outliners as well. Since outlining a novel can be daunting, outright overwhelming, and complicated, it’s nice to have a step-by-step book to help with the process!

I HIGHLY recommend any writer read this book, whether you’ve just started out or have been writing for years!
14 people found this helpful
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How many books?

Lewis Jorstad does not have any published books apart from books he released on how to write books. His bio page touts he tried NaNoWriMo in 2015 and did not complete. There are plenty of well-published authors who provide practical advice for writing and publishing. Before you throw $3 as an impulse buy, look for some of the better named authors.

Maybe after Lewis Jorstad has 10 published, well-selling novels he has authority. Not yet.
13 people found this helpful
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Very helpful but not perfect

This book is a great tool to help organizing story ideas and outline a novel in short period of time. I followed it day by day until the 9th day. The book is focused on 6 plot structure. If your story fits into that formula, then great. I couldn’t follow the day 9 task which is to produce the Master Outline because my story would not fit well with the 6 plot structure. I was find on day 7, organized my scenes into 6 plot. However, once the scenes became more clear to me, I got stock on day 9. After some thinking and research, I decided to go with the 7 plot point structure. Anyway, I still recommend this book to someone needs a little guidance before putting his/her story on the paper. Because of this book, I have been able to rearrange my story line, found new ideas new scenes and settings to go along.
4 people found this helpful
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Great writing tool and great for keeping focused.

The Ten Day Outline is a very good for tool for getting on track forming a basic outline. Excellent motivational tool. It kept things bare bones so writer's with an advanced tool box of fiction writing experience and skills may find it does not go into depth for writing a high performance outline. However, The Ten Day Outline is definitely a great tool to get you motivated, and keep you on track. It is a solid refresher for outlining skills. It is also a good book for someone getting started with writing and needs to enhance their outlining skills or get their novel back on track. Definitely a good buy.
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Worth reading

Gives some great insights to writing.
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Great tool

Great teaching tool.