With the arrival of AI, the pressure to produce more books, faster and meet quality standards is dizzying.

You want to honour your art, your ideas, your thinking without turning to AI, but you also don't want to be left behind, grinding away for years through trial and error.

AI can spit out a novel in five minutes, but it won't be yours. Not legally, not creatively, and not really you. Without deep knowledge on what makes a novel truly pop, readers will spot it a mile off.

This novel-writing kit is for the human writer who wants to draft faster, revise more efficiently, and know that when they do hand it over to an editor, they'll be paying them for the right kind of work. No wasting money on the wrong type of edit. All without turning over the hard graft to AI.

And you know the best bit? It will embed an understanding of the process of novel writing, so you can do it again with the next book. And the next one. Less guesswork; more productivity.

Set out with structure and direction. Cut back on revision time by laying a strong story foundation. Three guides you can use an infinite number of times to help you create, identify and present your characters, plot and main story premise. Or, you can use it to self-edit your novel after the drafting stage is done. This can also be used to plan and shape a memoir or piece of creative non-fiction.

Start with the Dig Deep Character Profile Worksheet, and get to know your lead cast in ways you likely haven't thought of in the past, what world they inhabit and how their individual psyches work. There are writing exercises provided at the end to put those characters into action with some short pieces, if you wish.

Then employ the Plotting by Fear and Ambition Worksheet to develop the major events in your story and the characters' emotional responses that lead to more plot. Be assured you are creating a story that is structurally sound from the start, saving a lot of headaches in the revisions. You might even be able to cut back on editing fees if you are self-publishing by doing the main legwork yourself.

This guided worksheet helps you hit the right notes at the right time in accordance to which section of the story you are writing. With tension highs and lows of both your characters' emotional growth journey and the story's external pressures as priority considerations.

You can use the How to Write a Novel Synopsis to further pinpoint the big-picture elements of your plot, but also in preparation of submitting your book to agents and editors. Stand out in the slush pile with a sleek, well-written synopsis and improve your chances of a full manuscript request. 

FILLABLE PDFS – reuse the worksheets as many times as you need. Infinite projects are possible!

PLUS: get free access to my private Facebook group, not searchable by the general public and only open to personal invitation, where you can discuss, share and ask all things writing and publishing related.

BONUS Arc Plotting Wall Planner included! Keep track at a glance of the main plot threads of your story when you need to step back and not get bogged down in the minutiae. 

If you are writing historical or speculative fiction, I have the kit available with the world-building worksheet included.

These workbooks are entirely human-made in concept, insight and design, drawn from twenty years' experience in writing and editing. All images, designs and formatting were pulled together and executed by me on my laptop. They took me months to make, not hours or weeks. I then spent hours adding fillable fields so that you can use them infinitely.