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2 Bestselling Guides Packed With Tips to Help You Brainstorm and Plan Your Best StoryFrom Award-Winning and Internationally Published Writing Mentor K.M. WeilandWith over 300 pages of step-by-step guidance, these two individual books have 440+ five star reviews on Amazon and have helped thousands of authors write better books.Can Outlining Help You Write a Better Story?These bestselling guides will help you choose the right type of outline to unleash your creativity, guide you in brainstorming plot ideas, and aid you in discovering your characters.--OUTLINING YOUR NOVEL--Award-winning author K.M. Weiland's bestselling Outlining Your Novel shows you how to embrace outlines in a way that makes the writing process fun, inspiring, and easy.Writers often look upon outlines with fear and trembling. But when properly understood and correctly wielded, the outline is one of the most powerful weapons in a writer's arsenal.Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success will help you choose the right type of outline for you, guide you in brainstorming plot ideas, aid you in discovering your characters, show you how to structure your scenes, explain how to format your finished outline, instruct you in how to use your outline when writing the first draft, reveal the benefits of outlining, and dispel the misconceptions.--OUTLINING YOUR NOVEL WORKBOOK-Now it's time to put those lessons to use! The Outlining Your Novel Workbook presents a guided approach to getting the bones of your story down on paper, identifying plot holes, and brainstorming exciting new possibilities.Containing hundreds of incisive questions and imagination-revving exercises, this valuable resource will show you how to:• Create your own personalized outlining process• Brainstorm premise and plot ideas• Discover your characters• Choose and create the right settings• Organize your scenes• And so much more!This accessible and streamlined workbook will empower you to create a powerful outline-and an outstanding novel.Start writing your best book today! K.M. Weiland lives in make-believe worlds, talks to imaginary friends, and survives primarily on chocolate truffles and espresso. She is the award-winning and internationally-published author of the popular writing guides Creating Character Arcs, Outlining Your Novel, and Structuring Your Novel, as well as the gaslamp fantasy Wayfarer, the dieselpunk adventure Storming, and the portal fantasy Dreamlander. When she's not making things up, she's busy mentoring other authors through her award-winning blog Helping Writers Become Authors. She is a native of western Nebraska.

Is Structure the Hidden Foundation of All Successful Stories? Why do some stories work and others don't? The answer is structure. In the 10-year anniversary edition of this beloved writing guide, 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 you:How to recognize and create powerful plot points at the right moments throughout your story.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 create a solid line of amazing scenes that create your story's dramatic arc.Revised and expanded with updated information and three brand new chapters, this second edition will help you join legions of writers who have learned how to write masterful plots. Story structure has empowered countless bestselling and classic authors. Now it's your turn!

Powerful Character Arcs Create Powerful StoriesHave you written a story with an exciting concept and interesting characters-but it just isn't grabbing the attention of readers or agents? It's time to look deeper into the story beats that create realistic and compelling character arcs. Internationally published, award-winning novelist K.M. Weiland shares her acclaimed method for achieving memorable and moving character arcs in every book you write.By applying the foundation of the Three-Act Story Structure and then delving even deeper into the psychology of realistic and dynamic human change, Weiland offers a beat-by-beat checklist of character arc guidelines that flexes to fit any type of story.This comprehensive book will teach you:*How to determine which arc-positive, negative, or flat-is right for your character.*Why you should NEVER pit plot against character. Instead, learn how to blend story structure and character development.*How to recognize and avoid the worst pitfalls of writing novels without character arcs.*How to hack the secret to using overarching character arcs to create amazing trilogies and series.*And much more!Gaining an understanding of how to write character arcs is a game-changing moment in any author's pursuit of the craft.Bring your characters to unforgettable and realistic life-and take your stories from good to great! K.M. Weiland lives in make-believe worlds, talks to imaginary friends, and survives primarily on chocolate truffles and espresso. She is the award-winning and internationally-published author of the popular writing guides Creating Character Arcs, Outlining Your Novel, and Structuring Your Novel, as well as the gaslamp fantasy Wayfarer, the dieselpunk adventure Storming, and the portal fantasy Dreamlander. When she's not making things up, she's busy mentoring other authors through her award-winning blog Helping Writers Become Authors. She is a native of western Nebraska.

The Six Transformational Character Arcs of the Human LifeReady to take your story's character arcs and themes to the next level? This latest book from veteran writing teacher and story theorist K.M. Weiland ventures far beyond the popular and pervasive Hero's Journey to explore six important archetypal character arcs, representing key moments of initiation in the human experience:• The Maiden• The Hero• The Queen• The King• The Crone• The MageFound in every genre from fantasy to drama to romance to adventure, these transformational stories are the secret of powerhouse fiction-as shown through a wide variety of real-story examples throughout the book.Writing Archetypal Character Arcs will teach you:• The archetypal beats for each of the six journeys• Which archetypes are right for your particular story• The best way to use archetypes in a series• How to choose the right archetypes for supporting characters• How to use archetypes to identify your story's themeYou will also learn how to deepen your stories by implementing shadow archetypes (the negative sides of each positive archetype), resting or "flat" archetypes (the fixed stage between each of the main arcs), and archetypal antagonists (the epic antagonistic forces that oppose each of the positive archetypes in their journeys). The Hero's Journey is just the beginning. Learning about archetypal character arcs will change the way you view stories-and life-forever.Find the Tools to Write Stories Readers Will Never Forget K.M. Weiland lives in make-believe worlds, talks to imaginary friends, and survives primarily on chocolate truffles and espresso. She is the award-winning and internationally-published author of the popular writing guides Creating Character Arcs, Outlining Your Novel, and Structuring Your Novel, as well as the gaslamp fantasy Wayfarer, the dieselpunk adventure Storming, and the portal fantasy Dreamlander. When she's not making things up, she's busy mentoring other authors through her award-winning blog Helping Writers Become Authors. She is a native of western Nebraska.

Uncover the Secrets to Creating Characters Readers Will Never ForgetAward-winning author K.M. Weiland's previous book, the acclaimed Creating Character Arcs, showed writers how to identify the five most important types of character arcs and use them to bring your own characters to life with stunning and powerful realism.Now it's time to put those lessons to use! Building upon the principles you've already learned, the Creating Character Arcs Workbook presents a guided approach to choosing the right type of character arc for your story, joining plot and character into a cohesive and resonant whole, and choosing stories with life-changing themes.Containing hundreds of incisive questions and imagination-revving exercises, this valuable resource will show you how to:• Write an inspiring Positive Change Arc• Create one of three unforgettable Negative Change Arcs• Take full advantage of a heroic Flat Arc• Align the structure of your character arcs with that of your plot• Revise a story that has no arc• And so much more!This accessible and streamlined workbook will empower you to create resonant character arcs-and an outstanding novel.Start writing your best book today! K.M. Weiland lives in make-believe worlds, talks to imaginary friends, and survives primarily on chocolate truffles and espresso. She is the award-winning and internationally-published author of the popular writing guides Creating Character Arcs, Outlining Your Novel, and Structuring Your Novel, as well as the gaslamp fantasy Wayfarer, the dieselpunk adventure Storming, and the portal fantasy Dreamlander. When she's not making things up, she's busy mentoring other authors through her award-winning blog Helping Writers Become Authors. She is a native of western Nebraska.

Learn How to Make Your First Draft Easy!Award-winning author K.M. Weiland's previous book, the bestselling Outlining Your Novel, showed writers how to embrace outlines in a way that makes the writing process fun, inspiring, and easy.Now it's time to put those lessons to use! Building upon the principles you've already learned, the Outlining Your Novel Workbook presents a guided approach to getting the bones of your story down on paper, identifying plot holes, and brainstorming exciting new possibilities.Containing hundreds of incisive questions and imagination-revving exercises, this valuable resource will show you how to:Create your own personalized outlining processBrainstorm premise and plot ideasDiscover your charactersChoose and create the right settingsOrganize your scenesAnd so much more!This accessible and streamlined workbook will empower you to create a powerful outline-and an outstanding novel.Start writing your best book today! K.M. Weiland lives in make-believe worlds, talks to imaginary friends, and survives primarily on chocolate truffles and espresso. She is the award-winning and internationally-published author of the popular writing guides Creating Character Arcs, Outlining Your Novel, and Structuring Your Novel, as well as the gaslamp fantasy Wayfarer, the dieselpunk adventure Storming, and the portal fantasy Dreamlander. When she's not making things up, she's busy mentoring other authors through her award-winning blog Helping Writers Become Authors. She is a native of western Nebraska.

Position yourself to live an inspired life and send the dreaded writer's block packing.Inspiration is a slippery thing at the best of times. But as a writer, you can't afford to wait around on Madam Muse's goodwill. In this encouraging e-book, award-winning author K.M. Weiland shows you how to nurture creativity and put it at your summons, rather than the other way around. After reading this book, you will be able to:• Build a lifestyle that encourages inspiration• Say goodbye to destructive guilt over "wasting" time on creative endeavors• Discover why inspiration isn't so much a feeling as an act of will• Understand what to do when your best-laid writing plans go awry• Use your non-writing time to boost your creative energy• Apply specific tips to prevent and combat writer's block• Instill habits for improving your efficiency and commitment as an authorNurture a lifestyle of creativity that will keep your fingers flying over the keyboard! K.M. Weiland lives in make-believe worlds, talks to imaginary friends, and survives primarily on chocolate truffles and espresso. She is the award-winning and internationally-published author of the popular writing guides Creating Character Arcs, Outlining Your Novel, and Structuring Your Novel, as well as the gaslamp fantasy Wayfarer, the dieselpunk adventure Storming, and the portal fantasy Dreamlander. When she's not making things up, she's busy mentoring other authors through her award-winning blog Helping Writers Become Authors. She is a native of western Nebraska.

2 Bestselling Guides Packed With Tips to Help You Brainstorm and Plan Your Best StoryFrom Award-Winning and Internationally Published Writing Mentor K.M. WeilandWith 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 you:*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 to:*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! K.M. Weiland lives in make-believe worlds, talks to imaginary friends, and survives primarily on chocolate truffles and espresso. She is the award-winning and internationally-published author of the popular writing guides Creating Character Arcs, Outlining Your Novel, and Structuring Your Novel, as well as the gaslamp fantasy Wayfarer, the dieselpunk adventure Storming, and the portal fantasy Dreamlander. When she's not making things up, she's busy mentoring other authors through her award-winning blog Helping Writers Become Authors. She is a native of western Nebraska.

Elevate Your Storytelling with Expert Plot Structure Unlock the secrets of compelling storytelling with Next Level Plot Structure, a brand-new guide from K.M. Weiland, author of the popular Structuring Your Novel. Go deep with plot structure to uncover the rich vein of narrative techniques and philosophical underpinnings that have shaped storytelling through the ages.Dig beyond the basics of plot beats to investigate the deeper symmetry and symbolism of story. Explore how your entire story, every plot beat, and every scene is made up of two mirroring halves. When you understand how this pattern generates and controls your story, you can use it to create powerful and gripping stories in any genre. Next Level Plot Structure will help you: Delve into chiastic structure, the mesmerizing mirroring technique that unites the two halves of your story.Create dramatic scene arcs by mastering the dual beats of each major plot point.Discover new ways of structuring the two halves of your scenes to keep readers turning pages.Explore how the symbolic significance of your story's four "worlds" affects both your plot and character arcs.Evade formulaic story structures by finding the deeper meaning and purpose of each piece of your plot.Discover why structural timing is really all about pacing.Learn what conflict is REALLY all about in a story (and how to think of it in a new light)Create spectacular setpiece scenes and sequences that readers will remember forever.Take your stories to the next level with the secrets of superior storytelling!