Getting the book written: 30-day drafts, NaNoWriMo and its alternatives, and ways through the middle of a novel.
How to get over writer's block: what 146 writers and four decades of studies say causes it, a fix for each kind of stuck, and where AI helps or makes it worse.
How to outline a novel in a weekend: the Snowflake Method's own hour counts cut to two days, a worked outline you can copy, and the one-line beats that become chapters.
A day-by-day plan to write a novel in 30 days: weekend outline, daily word targets, what to skip, how to recover a lost day, and where AI helps.
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