this book will focus on hunting down the flaws in your story and developing a structured game plan to fix them. The challenge will then periodically pause for you to put this plan into action, before continuing on to the next day.

Does your protagonist change by the end of your story, or affect a significant change in others? What is your protagonist’s deepest flaw, and how does your story force them to grow past that flaw? Does your protagonist have a personal goal driving them forward? How does your protagonist shape the direction of your plot?

review any dialog you’ve written with a distinct accent, both to ensure your character’s meaning is clear and to make sure you’re not creating a caricature out of an otherwise fully fledged character.

you don’t actually want your written dialog to perfectly match spoken language—after all, you’d end up with a whole lot of ums, uhs, and awkward pauses if you did!

mixing up long sections of dialog with a bit of description and action.

It isn’t necessarily bad to reuse locations, so long as you’re adding new elements and details whenever you revisit them.

Do they read for action or emotional engagement? How old are they, and what is their gender?

you also want the opening scene of your novel to relate to the ending—what

finalizing your novel’s opening line often feels the hardest in terms of sheer creative brain power.