61.3 Principles to keep in mind as you create
304.1 Attitude to the first draft
7II. Ideas, Research, Plotting, and Discovery Writing
314.2 How to write the first draft
82.1 How to find and capture ideas
324.3 Dictate your book
92.2 How to research your novel and when to stop
334.4 Write fast, cycle through, or write slow
102.3 Outlining (or plotting)
344.5 Writer’s block
112.4 Discovery writing (or pantsing)
354.6 Writing tools and software
122.5 What are you writing? Genre
364.7 When is the first draft finished?
132.6 What are you writing? Short story, novella, or novel
37V. The Editing Process
142.7 What are you writing? Stand-alone, series, or serial
385.1 Overview of the editing process
15III. Aspects of a Novel
395.2 Self-editing
163.1 Story structure
405.3 How to find and work with a professional editor
173.2 Scenes and chapters
415.4 Beta readers, specialist readers, and sensitivity readers
183.3 Character: Who is the story about?
425.5 Editing tools and software
193.4 Point of view
435.6 Lessons learned from editing my first novel after more than a decade
203.5 Dialogue
445.7 When is the book finished?
213.6 Plot: What happens in the story?
45Conclusion
223.7 Conflict
46Need more help?
233.8 Openings and endings
47About Joanna Penn
243.9 Setting and world-building: Where does the story happen?
