How to Start a Book, Conceive a Novel, Get a Story Going
Do you have a cool story idea but are stuck on how to begin your novel?
You’re not alone! Starting a novel is often the most challenging part of the writing process, but it’s also where the magic begins.
In the course How to Start a Book, Conceive a Novel, Get a Story Going you will learn how to turn flashes of inspiration into a structured and compelling story outline. The course covers everything from courting the Muse, to harnessing inspiration from real life, and getting help from AI.
Whether you’re writing fiction for the first time or looking to refine your craft, this course will guide you through each stage of starting your novel and setting it up for success. By the end of this course, you’ll have the tool and confidence to birth your novel.
Getting started is easy! Enroll in the course, and you’ll gain instant access to its video lectures and downloadable resources. Each module is structured to build on the previous one, ensuring the course won’t overwhelm you.
Further, I will give an example of a story I perceived and show how I took it from a story idea to an outline. This is the story of Kaito, an accountant in Tokio who brought shame upon himself and vanished from his life, leaving behind his wife and children. But fate took him into even deep waters and a life-changing crisis.
What you’ll learn:
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How to court the Muse, get inspiration from real life, and use AI to get started
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How to brainstorm missing story components
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How to capture and organize your story ideas
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How to use the eight writing crafts to categorize your ideas
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How to design the Eight Crafts story engine
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How to come up with a working story outline
Click here and enroll today and bring your story to life!
The Eight Crafts of Writing Flagship Course
The Eight Crafts of Writing is available as an interactive online course AND A VIDEO COURSE.
Click here to access the INTERACTIVE ONLINE course at the Lawson Writer’s Academy. Course duration: six weeks, Number of lessons: 22.
Click HERE to access the VIDEO COURSE on Udemy. You will get six hours On-Demand video (Lifetime access), all the lectures, and 18 downloadable resources.
What you will learn if you take The Eight Crafts of Writing course:
- The eight writing crafts (the map): Big Idea, Genre, Narrative, Story Outline, Characterization, World Building, Scene & Chapter Structure, and Prose
- How to engage readers
- A fresh definition of story that keeps your writing focussed
- How to use the psychology of storytelling to write immersive stories
- The adversity cycle and how to use it to foolproof your story outline
- How to author stories before writing them
- How to differentiate between protagonistic and antagonistic genres, story outlines, and scenes and why that matters
- A new way of dealing with the shapeshifting writer’s block
Lessons include:
- Lesson material
- Writing exercises
- Writing prompts
- Additional tools and resources
- Links to other Lawson Writer’s Academy courses that allow you to dig deeper into the crafts and sub-crafts
- The course premiere promo: The assessment of your story engine in a thirty minutes on-one-one call.
Who should take this course:
- Aspiring writers
- Writers who are a couple of years into their writing journey but got lost in the weeds
- Writers interested in the psychology of storytelling and the secrets of story engagement
- Writers interested in a simple and effective way of authoring stories (the pantser’s way of plotting)
