HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL
Have you started a novel 68 times (the same novel) and only have one chapter written?
Have you shared your author dream with your friends and family so many times that they now just roll their eyes and say “uh-huh.”?
Do you find that life gets in the way of finding the time to write?
Writers come to me and they have an idea for a novel, but they’re not sure what to do next.
Would-be authors often they say things like “I’ve been writing since I was a child, it’s always been my dream to publish. I just want to see my name on a book.”
What writers don’t know is how to make the author dream happen for themselves.
At Date With the Muse, we show writers not only how to make their author dream happen, but how to make it happen well.
- So that writers can be successful.
- So that agents and publishers want them right away,
- So that readers buy their books.
- So that authors create a fan base and they can live that dream, not only of seeing their name on a book once, not only of having their name on a book twice, but as many times as they want to.
We teach them the skills so that they can be a successful author time and time again.
We take writers and make them authors. We take them through idea, into a completed manuscript. We take that completed manuscript, we turn it into a publishable manuscript.
We work with first-time writers and we turn them into authors. We work with authors on their second, third, seventh book.
Whatever stage you’re in, in the process of writing your book and getting it published, we can help you.
How would it feel to fall in love with your writing again?
To always find time to write and live in a creative flow?
How would it feel to have confidence in your writing and
finally to get the kind of feedback
that moves your writing forward toward publication?
The Writing Gym Difference
Do you have an idea for a novel, but you’re not sure what to do next? Have you started and stopped on a novel idea time and again?
If you don’t get over this obstacle, you’ll never finish your novel. And if you never finish your novel, you will never publish and live your author dream.
The good news is that what you think are your problems— writer’s block, not having enough time— those aren’t your real problems. The real problem is that you don’t have the strategies it takes so that you can:
- Finish a novel to publishable
- Have the confidence that your writing is up to snuff–because you understand the standards you have to measure up to
- Understand where, how and when to get quality feedback
Are you ready to stop wasting time and money on conferences, workshops and critique groups that only give you half solutions, that don’t get you any closer to published? Are you ready to have the support it takes to write a novel to publishable and to have the confidence to call yourself an author, and know you mean it?
The Writing Gym is accepting select writers to join our community of successful, published authors.
There are no cookie-cutter solutions in the Writing Gym. We want to get to know you as a writer to see if you’re the right fit for us, and we’re the right fit for you. The application process takes place via phone conversation. We’ll spend about an hour talking about where you are, where you’d like to go, and how you can get there.
But this isn’t for everyone.
If you’re serious about finishing a novel to publishing industry standards and you know you’re ready to give up all the false solutions, let’s chat.
In the Writing Gym, we go above and beyond craft.
Of course your manuscript should be based in solid craft principles, but a publishable manuscript needs to have a foundation in the publishing industry standards–a moving target that most authors overlook to the peril of their manuscript ending up in the slush pile.
Through regular communication with high level agents, editors, and publishers, Annalisa is able to hone in on the ever moving target of what publishers and agents are seeking now and why.
You’re looking for skills, and the standards necessary for a lifelong writing career. You want to live the author lifestyle and you’re willing to put in the work it takes to get you there.
We expand your current zone of confidence, help you identify what you’re already good at, gain confidence and expand out your craft skills from there. We work with your fear to help you not only become more confident but more competent.