How To Write a Novel: From Idea To Book
From Idea To BookBy Joanna Penn
Length6h 8m
About this audiobook
Writing a novel will change your life.
It might not be in the way that you expect, but when you hold your book in your hand and say, “I made this,” something will shift.
The process of getting to that point will light a spark in your creative soul and help you discover unexpected aspects of yourself. It will be one of the things you are most proud of in your life. This book will help you get there.
I’m Joanna (J.F.) Penn, award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 18 novels and novellas with nearly a million books sold in over one hundred countries.
This book will help you write your first novel, or improve your creative process so you can write more books and reach more readers. It covers mindset, ideas and research, aspects of craft, how to write a first draft, and work through an editing process to a finished book.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Education and Learning
Length6 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 11, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
253.10 Author voice
2Introduction
263.11 Theme
3I. First Principles
273.12 Book or story title
41.1 Why are you writing a novel?
283.13 Language versus story and tools versus art
51.2 What has stopped you from completing a novel before?
29IV. Writing the First Draft
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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?
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