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EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! In this unique guide, agent, editor and novelist Evan Marshall does give you everything it takes to write your novel.
Deciding On the Story Goal. As a result of the crisis, your Lead character decides on their story goal. There are lots of good tips here.
For example, Marshall emphasizes how important it is that this Suppose actually intrigues you as the writer so you want to write about it and so your writing will reflect that enthusiasm. I tested it out and I can change the title later if I like by just entering another title in this tab.
Next up is learning about the building block of my novel: what Marshall calls sections and deciding on my genre and target word length. See you then! Click to learn more about the Marshall Plan for Novel Writing software.
There are a lot of writers who have read the Marshall Plan for Novel Writing books by Evan Marshall and have found this system really helpful in developing a compelling roadmap for their novels. The Marshall Plan for writing novels guides you to develop a powerful novel idea based on a specific system for developing characters and plot.
The plot is driven by an initial crisis that motivates the Lead character to focus on achieving an important specific goal throughout your novel. Marshall emphasizes that this must be a compelling and formidable problem that will keep the reader engaged throughout the story. The basic unit of plotting for the Marshall Plan is what he calls the section. Each section generally consists of the point-of-view character working to achieve a short-term goal, often being challenged by another character, and then failing to achieve the short-term goal.
Alternately, the character may succeed at the end of the section but discover an even bigger problem in the process. This system of plotting builds tension and suspense, compelling the reader to want to read just one more chapter to see what happens. This is true for all characters but the one Marshall calls the Opposition Character , also known as the antagonist of the story. This is one of the insights of the Marshall Plan system that I found very helpful.
At the end of the sections which feature the Opposition as the POV character, the Opposition always achieves his short-term goal. This serves to increase the stakes and the challenge to the Lead character, thus increasing the tension and suspense of the story.
During the end section of the novel, the Lead character faces the Opposition and endures his Worst Failure. He then experiences a Point of Hopelessness where he feels he will never succeed. At this point, he has an all-important insight , and as a result implements his final Saving Act which leads to his ultimate success.
Of course, at this point the Opposition fails. Throughout the novel, the Lead goes through a series of attempts to achieve his goal and is continually thwarted and challenged further as the novel proceeds. Add to that the multiple point of view characters and subplots that the system requires and the reader is left on the edge of their seat, anxious to know what happens next and how the Lead is ever going to succeed at this seemingly impossible task. In order to achieve this tight, compelling structure, Marshall gives you step-by-step instructions on how to write your novel.
His system lays out specific guidelines to follow when it comes to the following:. All of these guidelines are carefully designed to help you hook the reader and keep them engaged until the very last word. Beyond character-development and plotting, Marshall gives you lots of specific guidelines to help you with writing, editing, and sending your manuscript out to publishers and agents as well.
He covers the whole process with specific, practical guidance at each step.
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