Structuring Your Novel Box Set: How to Write Solid Stories That Sell

by K.M. Weiland

2 Bestselling Guides Packed With Tips to Help You Brainstorm and Plan Your Best Story


From Award-Winning and Internationally Published Writing Mentor K.M. Weiland


With almost 500 pages of step-by-step guidance, these two individual books have 340+ five star reviews on Amazon and have helped thousands of authors write better books.


Is Structure the Hidden Foundation of All Successful Stories?


These bestselling guides will teach you the secret to creating consistently good stories, show you how to spot and fix story problems before you start writing the first draft, and help you take your writing to the next level.


--STRUCTURING YOUR NOVEL--


Why do some stories work and others don’t? The answer is structure. In this IPPY and NIEA Award-winning guide from the author of the bestselling Outlining Your Novel, you will discover the universal underpinnings that guarantee powerful plot and character arcs. An understanding of proper story and scene structure will help you to not only perfectly time your story’s major events, but will also provide you with an unerring standard to use in evaluating your novel’s pacing and progression.


Structuring Your Novel will show


*How to determine the best methods for unleashing your unique and personal vision for your story.
*How to identify common structural weaknesses and flip them around into stunning strengths.
*How to eliminate saggy middles by discovering your “centerpiece.”
*Why you should NEVER include conflict on every page.
*How to discover the questions you don’t want readers asking about your plot—and then how to get them to ask the right questions.


--STRUCTURING YOUR NOVEL WORKBOOK--


Now it’s time to put those lessons to use! Building upon the principles in Structuring Your Novel, the Structuring Your Novel Workbook presents a guided approach to writing solid first drafts, identifying and fixing plot problems, and writing consistently good stories.


Containing hundreds of incisive questions and imagination-revving exercises, this valuable resource will show you how


*Implement a strong three-act structure
*Time your acts and your plot points
*Unleash your unique and personal vision for your story
*Identify common structural weaknesses and flip them around into stunning strengths
*Eliminate saggy middles by discovering your story’s “centerpiece”
*And so much more!


This accessible and streamlined workbook will empower you to create a powerful structure—and an outstanding novel.


Start writing your best book today!

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

361 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 13, 2016

About the author

K.M. Weiland is the award-winning and internationally published author of acclaimed writing guides such as Structuring Your Novel, Creating Character Arcs, and Writing Archetypal Character Arcs. She writes historical and speculative fiction and mentors authors on her award-winning website Helping Writers Become Authors.

Reviews

[Mark Brandon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'd rate this book a must-have for budding authors, if nothing else to compare some of Weiland's insights to what you're currently working on.

She takes the classic screenwriter's structure (see Syd Field et al) and explains how the successful novel follows a similar structure to movies, whether you like it or not. Mess with structure at your peril...

Weiland moves in a linear fashion through the various writing milestones (hook, inciting event, the various plot points, midpoint, the various pinch points) masterfully, illustrating her point by reference to classic texts and/or movies (Pride & Prejudice, Master and Commander, Ender's Game, It's a Wonderful Life) allowing you to follow along without even having to read the novels.

I actually used Weiland's structure to watch ten movies, stopping to note the time of occurrence of various events within the structure and noting where the movies lagged for me. The results were uncanny and entirely validated Weiland's thesis.

This book is incredible value for money given the wisdom it imparts, and the Box Set - including the Novel Workbook - is well worth getting if you're serious about your own writing.

I can't give it higher praise than saying it tells you a bunch of things you don't want to think are true, and makes you believe they are.

[Paul Dorritt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really gets you thinking about your story structure

I have a story idea, whilst reading this book, my own story started to come to life. Thank you, I needed this book. So many ideas arose from your exercises and questions.

[Margaretha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these books. Together the book and workbook take you through planning a story with the three act structure. In tandem with the Character Arc book and workbook you can craft an amazing adventure with unforgettable characters.

[Roberto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grundsätzlich bin ich der Ansicht, dass jeder Schreiben kann, unabhängig von der Qualität, nichtsdestotrotz ist die Kunst des Schreibens so vielfältig, dass man sie nicht endgültig erlernen kann. In diesem Werk wird jedoch mitunter eine der wichtigsten Komponente beim Schreiben erörtert: die Struktur. Auch wenn viele Schreiber instinktiv bereits Struktur in ihren Werken anwenden, ist sie doch eine ganze Kunst für sich. Der Plot, Szenen, selbst einzelne Sätze werden erst durch Struktur stark und machen beispielsweise einen Roman erst zu einer runden Sache. Ausführlich wird über alle drei Bereiche aufgeklärt. Mit dabei ist auch ein Arbeitsbuch mit Fragen zur eigenen Kontrolle, doch dieses eignet sich mehr zum Nachschlagen.

[Kimberly]

This really wasn’t what I was looking for. I’ve had some really good English and writing courses in the past that covered a lot of this.

If you’re new to story structure and timing, or have read very little good fiction, then this would be an excellent textbook to get familiar with those topics.