Download or read book The 90 Day Novel written by Alan Watt and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this day-by-day guide through the process of outlining and writing the first draft of your novel in 90 days, [the author] will show you: How to structure your novel without losing connection to your voice; Why you are uniquely qualified to write your story; The dilemma at the heart of your story; How your fears are a portal into your characters; The connection between your life themes and story themes; Why you kept getting stuck, and how to break through."--Back cover.
Download or read book The 90 Day Screenplay written by Alan Watt and published by Writers Tribe Books. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 90-Day Screenplay is a day-by-day guide through the process of outlining, writing, and polishing a screenplay in three months.
Download or read book Diamond Dogs written by Alan Watt and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Garvin is a seventeen year old living in a small town outside Las Vegas. Abandoned by his mother when he was three, he blames his abusive father - the local sheriff - for driving her away. Neil is good-looking, popular, the quarterback of the high school football team and as cruel to his peers as his father is to him. He plans to get out of town on his "million dollar arm," until the night he accidentally commits a terrible crime and his father, unasked, covers up for him. As the FBI arrives and begins to narrow in, Neil and his father become locked in a confrontation that will break them apart and set them free
Download or read book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days written by Conrad Jones and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise guide tells you how to write a novel by using a systematic approach to writing. This guide is written by an author not a 'guru'. A simple step by step breakdown of how to plan each day. No fillers and no theory, just the hard facts in a concise guide. There are many guides about writing novels on the market but how many of them are written by prolific published authors? The answer is ‘not many'. How can anyone write a guide unless they have been through the writing process many times before? The simple answer to this question is they can't because they cannot feed on their own actual experiences to help another writer to avoid the mistakes and pitfalls. Most guides regurgitate information which they have picked up from creative writing books or sites. How can they give you advice when they have never sat down and focused on creating a novel which will sell, many times over? Writing a novel is the same as any other task we undertake as individuals. We have to learn how to do it in order to do it well. When you first learn to drive, you need lessons. No one walks into the kitchen and creates a gourmet dish on their first attempt. If you want a system to apply to writing a book, then you need to take advice from an ‘author’ who has taken years to develop the process via experience.
Download or read book The First 90 Days Updated and Expanded written by Michael D. Watkins and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transition Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success. In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitions—no matter where you are in your career. Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions and adviser to senior leaders in all types of organizations, also addresses today’s increasingly demanding professional landscape, where managers face not only more frequent transitions but also steeper expectations once they step into their new jobs. By walking you through every aspect of the transition scenario, Watkins identifies the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter and provides the tools and strategies you need to avoid them. You’ll learn how to secure critical early wins, an important first step in establishing yourself in your new role. Each chapter also includes checklists, practical tools, and self-assessments to help you assimilate key lessons and apply them to your own situation. Whether you’re starting a new job, being promoted from within, embarking on an overseas assignment, or being tapped as CEO, how you manage your transition will determine whether you succeed or fail. Use this book as your trusted guide.
Download or read book Book in a Month written by Victoria Lynn Schmidt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Can You Accomplish in 30 Days? If you make time to write and put away all of your excuses, could you stay on track and finish your novel in only a month? With a structured plan and a focused goal, yes, you can! Using a combination of flexible weekly schedules, focused instruction, and detailed worksheets, author Victoria Schmidt leads you through a proven 30-day novel-writing system without the intimidation factor. Book in a Month shows you how to: • Set realistic goals and monitor your progress • Manage your time so that your writing life has room to flourish • Select a story topic that will continue to inspire you throughout the writing process • Quickly outline your entire story so that you have a clear idea of how your plot and characters are going to develop before you start writing • Draft each act of your story by focusing on specific turning points • Keep track of the areas you want to revise without losing your momentum in the middle of your story • Relax and have fun–you are, after all, doing something you love So what are you waiting for? If you've been putting off your book project, let Book in a Month be your guide and find out just how much you can accomplish.
Download or read book The Last First Day written by Carrie Brown and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth and Peter have been married more than fifty years. He is the headmaster of the Derry School, a boys’ boarding school in Maine; she has spent the four decades of her husband's tenure helping out wherever she is needed. But Peter’s retirement is approaching, and Ruth wonders what will become of them when it finally arrives. How will they survive separated from the school into which they have poured everything, including their savings? As the story takes us back through the years, revealing the explosive spark and joy that brought Ruth and Peter together in their youth, The Last First Day becomes a deeply felt portrait of a woman from a generation that quietly put individual dreams aside for the good of the partnership, and of the ongoing gift of loving and being loved in return.
Download or read book The 90 Day Novel Planner written by Marisa Mohi and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel writing is tough. So I created this planner to help me see the forest for the trees.This planner is designed to keep all your novel writing bits and pieces in one place. Sure, digital tools like Scrivener, Pinterest, and Google Drive can keep things for you. But I'm an analog girl, so this planner makes it a lot easier for me to keep notes together, and in a way that actually helps me write.There are times when you have an idea, but you don't know where to start. This journal is designed so that you can start where you are. Only know who your protagonist is? Start with the protagonist sketch page. Only have your opening image of the novel decided? Write it on the Act I page under the hook. Halfway through the novel but you've decided to change a character's name? Mark it in the writing journal where you can track notes about your writing sessions.Write your novel in the way that makes the most sense to you. And use this planner to keep yourself on track.
Download or read book Eileen written by Ottessa Moshfegh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picture streaming on Hulu, starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize “Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious. Its first-person narrator is one of the strangest, most messed-up, most pathetic—and yet, in her own inimitable way, endearing—misfits I’ve encountered in fiction. Trust me, you have never read anything remotely like Eileen.” —Washington Post So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.
Download or read book The Weekend Novelist written by Robert J. Ray and published by Billboard Books. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to a day job? Robert J. Ray and coauthor Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this proven practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends. The Weekend Novelist shows writers of all levels how to divide their writing time into weekend work sessions, and how to handle character, scene, and plot. This new, revised version is far more skills-based than its predecessor, and includes both classic and contemporary literature models, contains a sample "Novel in Progress," and at the end offers readers the choice to rewrite their novel, draft a memoir, or turn their rough draft into a screenplay. Readers for a decade have been instructed and inspired by The Weekend Novelist. This new edition will help many more strive to realize their writing potential. • Offers a practical, structured approach to finishing a novel • Ray has taught more than 10,000 students over 25 years and continues to teach new classes that attract new readers to his books
Download or read book Power to Transform written by Chris Majer and published by Made For Success Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You already have the power to transform your life. Within the pages of this book is a proven system for making it happen. No more wishing, dreaming, trying and failing at real transformation. Learn and apply the strategies that have helped thousands achieve life, business, and relationship transformations that have them operating at a higher level than they ever dreamed! Stop letting your life unfold before you. Create the life you really want! Achieve the measurable and dramatic increases in performance and profits that have been achieved by the likes of the US Army and Marine Corps, Amgen, AT&T, Microsoft, Intel, Allianz, and Capital One who all applied the strategies you’ll find here. This book distills complex philosophical and linguistic concepts into easy-to-use practices that produce transformational change rapidly and effectively. Move from “knowing” to “competence” through specific thoughts and actions Think more clearly, listen more deeply, speak more powerfully, and act purposefully Face down the most daunting challenges and make consistently powerful choices Develop a simple practice that helps you maintain calm in the midst of any storm life delivers Feel more alive than you have ever felt before. Whether you’re a student just starting out in life or a high-powered executive (or anyone in between), you’ll be amazed by the awakening that occurs with the practice of simple, yet powerful strategies for total transformation. You’ll see things you’ve never seen before. You’ll feel more awake and alive. You’ll be able to focus your energy to release past limitations and enjoy the benefits of being accountable and helping others in your work and life do the same. Warning: Achieving transformation will require you to step outside your comfort zone, but nothing worthwhile happens in that zone anyway. When your commitment to learning trumps your commitment to being afraid, you will learn…and enjoy the benefits that greater learning brings you.
Download or read book Spectacle written by Susan Steinberg and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventive new collection from the author of Hydroplane and The End of Free Love * A San Francisco Chronicle, Complex, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year * In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman struggles with the death of her friend in a plane crash. A daughter decides whether to take her father off life support in the Pushcart Prize-winning "Cowboys." And in "Underthings," when a man hits his girlfriend, she calls it an accident. Spectacle bears witness to alarming and strange incidents: carnival rides and plane crashes, affairs spied through keyholes and amateur porn, vandalism and petty theft. These wounded women stand at the edge of disaster and risk it all to speak their sharpest secrets. In lean, acrobatic prose, Susan Steinberg subverts assumptions about narrative and challenges conventional gender roles. She delivers insight with a fierce lyric intensity in sentences shorn of excessive sentiment or unnecessary ornament. By fusing style and story, Steinberg amplifies the connections between themes and characters so that each devastating revelation echoes throughout the collection. A vital and turbulent book from a distinctive voice, Spectacle will break your heart, and then, before the last page is turned, will bind it up anew. "Experimental but never opaque, Steinberg's stories seethe with real and imagined menace." —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book If He Had Been with Me written by Laura Nowlin and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
Download or read book Matched written by Ally Condie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow. Look for CROSSED, the sequel to MATCHED, in Fall 2011! Watch a Video
Download or read book Level Up written by 3J Journals and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The LEVEL UP: 90 Day Planner is perfect for those that want to focus on stepping their game up. The perfect size (7x10) for this90 Day Undated Planner; So start anytime! Perfect tool to track your goals and money making tasks. Use this planner to help you focus on the bigger picture and to break down your tasks for the week and then the day. This 2 in 1 day planner will help you track your daily water intake, remind you to have breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as to zone in on your daily money making tasks. Plan your daily marketing efforts, whether it's through use of social media or email marketing. This planner will remind you to do those simple tasks to help you get into the rhythm and habit of Leveling Up your efforts in your business.
Download or read book 90 Day Soulmate English written by Lisett Guevara and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 90 Day Soulmate that's the story of love... How I found my perfect match in 90 days. Tag along with Lisett and Jim as they begin their unique and iconic relationship. Learn how they finally find each other and discover what sets this romantic partnership apart. Includes the secret of more than a thousand self- help books, courses, and development workshops. * Simple steps and exercises * Practical guide and worksheets * The real story of the authors Inside the book: * How Lisett perfectly predicted the future * See her incredible vision become reality * Witness this magical love story unfold A resource for individuals and couples. Science uncovers the key to the magic of the universe that allows you to create your dream relationship.
Download or read book The Unit written by Ninni Holmqvist and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I enjoyed The Unit very much...I know you will be riveted, as I was." —Margaret Atwood on Twitter A modern day classic and a chilling cautionary tale for fans of The Handmaid's Tale. Named a BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH by GQ. “Echoing work by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, The Unit is as thought-provoking as it is compulsively readable.” —Jessica Crispin, NPR.org Ninni Holmqvist’s uncanny dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future, where women over fifty and men over sixty who are unmarried and childless are sent to a retirement community called the Unit. They’re given lavish apartments set amongst beautiful gardens and state-of-the-art facilities; they’re fed elaborate gourmet meals, surrounded by others just like them. It’s an idyllic place, but there’s a catch: the residents—known as dispensables—must donate their organs, one by one, until the final donation. When Dorrit Weger arrives at the Unit, she resigns herself to this fate, seeking only peace in her final days. But she soon falls in love, and this unexpected, improbable happiness throws the future into doubt.
