{"product_id":"the-novel-writing-workbook","title":"The Novel Writing Workbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost novels stall somewhere between the idea and the finished draft. The Novel Writing Workbook takes a book the whole way, one craft at a time: where ideas come from and how a premise forms, the people in the book and what they want, how events cause one another, the world they happen in, how much to plan, the drafting itself, and the scenes, sentences, and point of view a draft is made of. Each craft gets the depth a first draft needs: a definition, a test you can run on your own book in a few minutes, the ways it tends to go wrong, and a worksheet that does the job. When a problem outgrows that working version, the page names the companion workbook that goes further.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is written for writers who plan before they draft and for writers who find the book by drafting it, and it is built for work that runs in seasons. It asks for no streaks, word counts, or daily targets. Each worksheet ends with a line that says when it is done, and a door note and dated sheets give you a way back in after a gap. Twelve case studies follow real novelists through the question of each section: Min Jin Lee setting a finished manuscript aside and starting again from a new outline, Ernest Hemingway beginning \u003cem\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/em\u003e on the sixteenth page of his typescript, J. R. R. Tolkien rewriting back chapters when his moons went wrong, and Chinua Achebe nearly losing the only copy of \u003cem\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e. Use it from the first idea, in the middle of a draft, or on the day you come back to a book you set aside.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saint Violet Creative","offers":[{"title":"Instant Download","offer_id":47170093809882,"sku":"SV-NWW-INST","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Print Edition","offer_id":47170093777114,"sku":"SV-NWW-PRT-COIL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/6230\/7290\/files\/the-novel-writing-workbook-01.png?v=1794038039","url":"https:\/\/www.saintvioletcreative.com\/products\/the-novel-writing-workbook","provider":"Saint Violet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}