The Ten Day Outline: A Writer's Guide to Planning a Novel in Ten Days (The Ten Day Novelist Book 1)

Your Plot: Are you happy with how your story fits within the six plot points of the Three Act Structure? Does your Dramatic Question properly capture your story’s conflict? Does your story steadily raise the stakes and tension as you approach your final Climax? Do you resolve all of your loose story threads during your Climax and Resolution?

Inspiration plays an important role in many stages of the writing process, but it’ll only be there if you invite it to the party first.

By referencing your Master Outline as you finish each scene, you’ll always know what’s ahead of you,

Act 3 (Resolution): Act 3 is the final quarter of your novel and sees the conflict come to its end. Here your protagonist and antagonist will have their final confrontation. Once you resolve the conflict of your story, you’ll have a moment to hint at the future and explain what happens after your protagonist’s journey is over (or set up a sequel, i

Many of these edits would have been inevitable, cropping up later on during your second and third drafts if you didn’t take care of them now. While difficult and time intensive, completing these now should help you

To help jumpstart this process, your story summary from yesterday is the easiest place to start. By breaking it down into a beginning, middle, and ending you should be able to tease out at least three or four scenes right off the bat.

this Master Outline is meant to be used as a reference while you’re writing your first draft.

Not only do they value their own ideas and skills more and more, but they begin to realize that the ideals they had been striving towards weren’t the best to begin with. This change begins in earnest after they meet a new and unusual friend.

Your outline should let you create lists, mark changes, and jot down notes. You’ll also want to consider how you’ll include images and other media. In a binder or notebook, this is fairly straightforward—you