Finish Your Book in Three Drafts
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Finish Your Book in Three Drafts

How to Write a Book, Revise a Book, and Complete a Book While You Still Love It

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Finish Your Book in Three Drafts

How to Write a Book, Revise a Book, and Complete a Book While You Still Love It

About this book

How do you write a book? Stuart Horwitz helps you do itin three drafts. Three drafts: that’s all you need.

• The messy draft: which is all about getting it down.

• The method draft: which is all about making sense.

• The polished draft: which is all about making it good.

Finish Your Book in Three Drafts is for outliners who meticulously scriptevery writing session and pantsers who pilot solely by feel. It will helpyou get past the fear that can land a first draft in the trashcan, and theconfusion that can send a second draft into a dizzying tailspin. Becauseyou don’t want to be writing the same book for the rest of your life.

You can Finish Your Book in Three Drafts provided you approach eachdraft in the right spirit, and know what action steps to take between drafts.With clarity, honesty, humor, and even videos, Horwitz discussesthe best outlook and direction for each of the three drafts so that youcan increase your efficiency, satisfaction, and engagement with bothyour writing process and your final product.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Advance Praise for Finish Your Book in Three Drafts
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Introduction: Know What Draft You’re In
  8. Draft #1: The Messy Draft
  9. Chapter One: The Messy Draft: How to Generate Material
  10. Draft #2: The Method Draft
  11. Chapter Two: Seek the Method
  12. Chapter Three: The Method Draft, Part I: Working with Scenes
  13. Chapter Four: The Method Draft, Part II: Discovering Your Series
  14. Chapter Five: The Method Draft, Part III: Finding Your Theme
  15. Draft #3: The Polished Draft
  16. Chapter Six: The Polished Draft, Part I: Role of the Beta Reader
  17. Chapter Seven: The Polished Draft, Part II: Putting Together a Punch List
  18. Conclusion:
  19. Back Cover