cary woods

A Novel’s Journey

Virtual Author Visit

with

Kate Messner

www.katemessner.com

Where Do We Start?

IDEAS!

Where do you get ideas for your books?

Imagine yourself there…

Where do you get ideas for your books?

Write what you know…

Jean TalonMarket,

Montreal

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Writing a Rough Draft

Outlines and Organizers

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Revision(not editing)

A Shrunken ManuscriptStrategy Courtesy of Darcy Pattison

http://www.darcypattison.com

PINK = plot pointsGREEN = crushBLUE = RubyORANGE = funny bits

with IanYELLOW = place for

the tree game

Submissions

Process“Please buy my book!”

Rejections“No, thank you.”

Revision(not editing)

Copy Edits(final proofreading)

What will the cover look like?

What will the cover look like?

(Take two!)

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Walker/Bloomsbury

December 2010

The Star Spangled Setup

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A Novel’s Journey

Virtual Author Visit

with

Kate Messner

www.katemessner.com