Outlining Your Novel: Create a Roadmap to Storytelling Success

ABOUT THE WEBINAR The QUERY LETTER and the story pitch it contains are your first—and most important—contact with an agent. This is where you explain who you are, what the book is about, and why you've chosen to contact this literary rep. Because the query is such a big step on a writer's journey, this entire 90-minute webinar will be devoted to it—dissecting queries that worked and queries that didn't. Writers often look upon outlines with fear and resentment. Won’t outlines limit your creativity and rob the joy of discovery from your first draft? Why spend all that time preparing for a story when you could be writing it? But when properly understood, the outline is one of the most powerful weapons in a writer’s arsenal. In this OnDemand webinar, K.M. Weiland, author of Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success, helps you learn how to choose the right type of outline for you, how to brainstorm plot ideas, and how to discover your characters. Outlines ensure cohesion and balance i