By this stage, you should have a good idea of the large-scale structure of your story, and you have only spent a day or two. Well, if you’re hopeless you may have spent as much as a week, but it doesn't matter. If the story is horrid, you know it now, rather than after months spent on a rambling first draft that won’t be noticed at all. So, now just keep developing the story—take several hours and expand each chapter-section of your story summary into a full paragraph. All but the last paragraph should end in something suspenseful or unexpected. The final paragraph should tell how the story ends. At the end of the exercise, you have a pretty decent five- or six-page outline of the story.
Estimated Time - three hours (two days)
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Writing a Novel-Length Story in 56 Days (or less)
Non-FictionThis is written to help you after you have come up with a basic plot.The dates that are given are simply intended as an outline; if you couldn’t care less about quality or get steps done in fewer days, your novel-length story can be ready in as litt...
