Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days

by Zoe M. McCarthy

Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days, is a fresh and innovative refocusing of your novel or novella. Through a few simple--and fun--steps, Zoe M. McCarthy helps writers take their not-ready-for-publication and/or rejected manuscripts to a spit-polish finish. This step-by-step reference guide leads you through the process of brainstorming, shaping, and revising your fiction manuscript. Writers learn how to examine their own work for stronger plot and characterization. Valuable tools are offered that enable the writer to develop a publishable, workable draft in only 30 days!

204 pages, Paperback

Published January 7, 2019

About the author

A full-time writer and speaker, Zoe M. McCarthy, author of Gift of the Magpie and Calculated Risk, writes contemporary Christian romances involving tenderness and humor. Believing opposites distract, Zoe creates heroes and heroines who learn to embrace their differences. When she’s not writing, Zoe enjoys her five grandchildren, teaching Bible studies, leading workshops on writing, knitting and crocheting shawls for a prayer shawl ministry, gardening, and canoeing. She lives with her husband in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Reviews

[Patricia C · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript" offers a self-directed toolbox for revision. Not only does McCarthy suggest tips for good grammar, excellent sentences, and sound paragraphs she also breaks down the high-level revision process into a step-by-step personalized checklist. She does this by guiding you through the first 40 pages. By the time you get to the rest of your manuscript, you know where your weaknesses are. Once tailored, McCarthy proposes engaging critique partners, recruiting beta readers, and hiring a professional editor--all of these steps working together should produce a print-ready manuscript. Other tools include a daily calendar (for the 30 days), action tasks, blah busters tips, and at least one resource per chapter.

[Erin Unger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant writing aid

For anyone working on a manuscript, this book is an amazing tool to bring your writing to the next level. I highly recommend this book to all writers. McCarthy's style of using examples helped me the most. I will be using it on future novels for sure.

[Jacinta Meredith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent. I plan to use this for all my manuscripts.