From the course: Write a Bestselling Novel in 15 Steps

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Intro to the writer's room

Intro to the writer's room

- Welcome to the Writer's Room. This is where we'll be taking everything we've learned in the explanation and examples lectures and putting it into action. As I said before, the Writer's Room is named after the room on Hollywood Studio lots where a group of writers get together and develop movies and TV shows. So consider me a member of your virtual development team. I'm here to help you apply what you've learned about each beat and develop your story into the very best and most dynamic story it can be. In these lectures, which will always be labeled with the word exercise, we'll be brainstorming each beat of our own stories and step by step, developing a full beat sheet or novel road map. A novel road map is similar to an outline but it can be used at any stage of the novel-writing process. You can use a beat sheet or a novel road map for any of the following scenarios. If you're just starting out with a shiny, new novel idea and you want to flesh it out and develop it into a full…

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