Brainstorm Your Book!
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Brainstorm Your Book: Planning the Parts of Your Next Novel is a hands-on, pen-to-paper, rubber-to-road workbook to help you generate ideas for all the elements of your next fiction book—character, setting, plot, and theme—to produce a more robust first draft more easily, and improve on your later versions. Whether you are writing your first book or your fifty-first, no matter your genre or personal process, Brainstorm Your Book will spark creativity, increase productivity, and make writing your novel a whole lot more fun.
In a series of questions, prompts, and exercises, Brainstorm Your Book probes your imagination, pulling small and large details from your creative mind and the world around you. The workbook will introduce you to your characters and help build solid friendships with them, show you both a bird’s-eye and closeup view of your settings, generate action to drive the plot forward, and enhance the underlying messages in your manuscript. It will walk you, step-by-step, through choices you might never have considered, act as a catalyst driving progress through the whole first draft, and increase your chances of ending with a high-quality finished novel.
Brainstorm Your Book: Planning the Parts of Your Next Novel
This 144-page workbook will help jump-start your novel and help you generate ideas through the entire first draft.
Extra Worksheets
Instructions for all worksheets are contained in the Brainstorm Your Book Workbook.
BYB Series Data Archive Template
This Excel template provides the structure to keep track of all your series data. (Minimum intermediate knowledge of Excel is recommended.)
Price: $5.00
Mind Mapping Worksheet
This free worksheet provides blank mind maps for your use.
Price: $0.00
Theme Worksheet - Themes and Symbols
This worksheet explores the Themes and Symbols of your novel.
Price: $1.00
Plot Worksheet - Subplot
This worksheet explores the Subplot of your novel.
Price: $1.00
Plot Worksheet - Primary Plot
This worksheet explores the Primary Plot of your novel.
Price: $1.00
Setting Worksheet - Indoor Attributes
This worksheet explores the Indoor Attributes of your setting.
Price: $1.00
Setting Worksheet - Buildings and Structures Attributes
This worksheet explores the Buildings and Structures Attributes of your setting.
Price: $1.00
Setting Worksheet - Regional and Local Attributes
This worksheet explores the Regional and Local Attributes of your setting.
Price: $1.00
Setting Worksheet - Continental and National Attributes
This worksheet explores the Continental and National Attributes of your setting.
Price: $1.00
Character Worksheet - Lifestyle Attributes
This worksheet explores the Lifestyle Attributes of your character.
Price: $1.00
Character Worksheet - Mental and Emotional Attributes
This worksheet explores the Mental and Emotional Attributes of your character.
Price: $1.00
Character Worksheet - General and Physical Attributes
This worksheet explores the General and Physical Attributes of your character.
Price: $1.00
Educational Discounts
Bulk orders of 25 copies or more from this website will be discounted by 10 percent.
A loose-leaf, worksheet-only coursepack is available for licensing at a cost of $15 per student.
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