The Serious WriterÕs Essential Workbook is a comprehensive guide and set of templated worksheets organized into six parts to help writers plan, draft, and track their novel from the concept phase to eventually querying agents.
The workbook is divided into the following key sections:
Ideas & Concept Development: Focuses on brainstorming, high-level premise, core concept, theme identification, and ÒWhat If?Ó prompt questions.
Character Profiles & Development: Provides templates for multiple characters, covering their internal and external profiles, ghost wounds, needs vs. wants, arc planning, and developing dialogue and differentiating voice.
World-building & Setting: Details the core setting, location rules, societal structure, cultural norms, historical timeline, and sensory details.
Plot & Structure: Includes a three-act outline (Setup, Confrontation, Resolution), planning for the inciting incident, plot points, crisis, climax, and plot pacing.
Scenes & Drafting: Features Scene Cards for chapter-level planning and sections for analyzing the starting hook and practicing the ÒShow, DonÕt TellÓ technique.
Next Steps: Contains goal trackers, beta reader notes, a query tracker for agency submissions, research/resources logs, and a reading journal., Workbook, worksheets, Novel writing, , Brendan Fisher| | 202PAGES