Structuring Your Novel will show you:

How to determine the best techniques for empowering your unique and personal vision for your story.
How to identify common structural weaknesses and flip them around into stunning strengths.
How to eliminate saggy middles by discovering your “centrepiece.”
Why you should NEVER include conflict in every scene.
How to discover the questions you don’t want readers asking about your plot—and then how to get them to ask the right questions.

I think a book like this is ideal for anybody from the ultimate beginner who wants to write a book but has no idea on structure, AND people who have the knowledge but are struggling with it.

The beauty of K.M Weiland's book, is that it actually is more like a work book than anything else. I found myself taking pages of notes in just the first chapter.
In the first chapter of the book alone (On first chapters no less!), you are told what to include, what to leave out, and when to start the action. And you can adapt this to your own writing.

Read this authors book on Outlining and then get writing!

Like I was more ready to start a novel

It has a very helpful/friendly tone, easy to read and is the first writing craft book I've read front to back

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