If you are visually-oriented and producing a novel, you may find this visual tour of ways to design and develop your story helpful.
Part 1 of this series covers mind maps, with examples and links to beneficial resources.
Visually brainstorm story ideas, characters, plot, outline, and more, unconstrained by ordering or structuring
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My current business plan section on operating online definitely needs an overhaul.
I have, however, collected quite a few best practices and quite a few thoughts on content, newsletters, websites and more.
Up this week is my current schedule for content:
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So, you’re taking this writing thing seriously. You want to develop it into a business and a career.
What are the pieces to operating a writing business? How are you going to do so?
Here are the sections in my operations plan:
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In the plan’s novel production process, I created a visual for the steps from draft to book ready.
Hope this helps you.
Continue readingMy business plan is meant almost solely for my use (aren’t you glad I’m sharing?), so note the format is more fluid, in more of a rough draft state.
Here’s some excerpts:
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Well, if you’re an established writer like Brandon Sanderson, L.E. Modesitt, or David Weber, and you have a business plan, the intended audience may include investors, publishers, fellow writers, employees… Of course, I’m guessing, as I remain unpublished.
While I hope you benefit indirectly from my business plan via this series, my business plan is primarily for my own benefit.
Look out for the next in the series where I discuss how my business plan benefits me in becoming a published novelist.
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Will this post help you with the business side of writing?
Despite my oh-so-limited time to spend on anything writing related, I am treating my writing as a business. I’ve had a business plan from the beginning. Not a professional, capture-venture-capital kind of business plan, but a comprehensive guide to my own efforts to be successful. It’s an ever-evolving document as I flesh out details.
This is the first in a series of posts about my business plan. Hope it helps!
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