Best Approach for Writing Character-Driven Books

Pre-writing is key to developing a convincing character-driven book or novel that appeals to readers. It also saves time and money later in the writing process.

Prep Your Story is a 6-video course designed by Amazon best-selling fiction author Weston Kincade. Weston writes character-driven supernatural horror and mystery novels, and his process has proven successful with readers and reviewers. Now he is offering his hybrid pre-writing method in a step-by-step guided process you can apply to your story ideas. Prep Your Story makes writing a book easier and faster.

The course includes downloadable video tutorials, guided printables, examples from popular novels, and links to resources that will help your story shine.

Course Contents

Lesson 1:

Introduction

The first video highlights common pre-writing challenges when writing character-driven stories and the importance of pre-writing steps such as Brainstorming, Plotting, and Outlines. Weston also details the step-by-step processes the course videos will cover.

Lesson 2:

Brainstorming and Mind Maps

Guided tutorial on different Brainstorming techniques used in pre-writing, tracking your progress, and other benefits. Weston also goes over Mind Maps, how and when to use them, along with examples and additional resource links.

Lesson 3:

Creating Believable Characters

The video lays out a step-by-step process to developing in-depth characters for your novels. Downloadable printables are provided to craft your very own characters along with the video for future use in your stories.

Lesson 4:

Plotting Your Story

Weston covers how to plot your story, aligning it with Freytag's Pyramid using Lord of the Flies as a detailed example. Downloadable printables are provided to use for your story alongside the guided video.

Lesson 5:

Outlining Your Story, Part I

Using Weston's personally designed Sequential Outline, video 5 guides you in a step-by-step process to outline your story through the Climax. Weston demonstrates with examples when the Sequential Outline is applied to Twilight. Sequential Outline printables are provided.

Lesson 6:

Outlining Your Story, Part II

Video 6 takes you through the latter half of the Sequential Outline, including examples when applied to Twilight and downloadable printables.

By the time you finish the course and apply it to your story ideas, you should have a completely pre-written book or novel with resources to draw on as you write. This will save you time and money when dealing with consistency issues later.

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