Overview

Every one of us has a story to tell. This book is intended to help all of you learn the necessary skills to put together your own novel. This volume will guide you through the process and through to a completed draft, a fully developed story. Craft the Draft will show you how to use the tools and techniques of professional writers across the industry. It will show you how to master the major components of your story such as: generating ideas and developing them into story concepts, building characters and determining the proper viewpoint for your story to display the desired level of conflict, outlining your plot and constructing the necessary scenes for your novel and creating an exciting climax, creating the detailed setting you desire in your story and immersing the reader in that world, developing the necessary tension, exciting dialogue, vivid prose, and entrancing voice and style. Each chapter provides insight into tools you will need as a writer and gives you examples and exercises to work on to build your skill and develop a complete story from start to finish.