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Novelists Boot Camp
Todd A. Stone

101 Ways to Take Your Book From Boring to Bestseller

Writer's Digest Books
March 2006
On Sale: March 11, 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 1582973601
EAN: 9781582973609
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help Diet

This boot-camp-in-a-book includes 101 carefully crafted drills designed to show you how to:

• Identify and develop story ideas with laser-like perception
• Create realistic "alpha" characters who can take charge of any scene

• Know what motivates your protagonist’s enemy so that you can amp up the conflict

• Outline your story to avoid sneak attacks from flawed plot twists

• Dodge the land mines of bad writing like Deadly Modifier Buildup (DMBU)

• Triage your scenes to ensure a thorough and precise revision process

Plus, there’s a twelve-week boot camp battle plan that you can use to stay the course and finish your novel.

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