How I Wrote a Novel in 14 Days: Writing Fast By the Seat of My Pants Without an Outline

by Rachelle Ayala

How to daydream a full-length novel without an outline and write it fast with minimal revisions.

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Raise your hand.

How many of you wish to write a novel but dread outlining?

How many books have you read that recommend outlining for better and faster writing?

How many of your writer friends not only outline their books but have outlines and arcs for their series?

If you’re like me, outlines give you the willies but you couldn’t follow one even if someone gave you one to write to.

But you still want to write a novel and you believe you can.

That’s great because I’m going to show you how I wrote a full-length novel with any planning, outlining, character sheets, or any of the worksheets other writing books recommend.

I describe how I use my personality attributes to design a process that works for me—one that allows me to write fast by the seat of my pants and minimize revisions.

I understand your deepest fears when diving off the deep end into unknown waters and your struggle with the dreaded inner critic. I’ll show you how to daydream while you write and create twists and turns to power your story to an awesome ending.

We’ll skip the boring parts and jump right into our story from a standing start. We’ll keep the words flowing and together, we’ll discover how to spin wild tales that still meet genre and story structure guidelines. And we’ll be ready when others moan, “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”

By having no plan, we are truly free to create, and that is the aim of this book.

It’s how I did it, not necessarily how you should do it. However, by showing you how I did it, my fervent hope is that you will use the individual aspects of your personality to tweak and create a method that works for you—fast, furious, and fun—a novel in fourteen days, more or less.

Ready?

Let’s go!

70 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 29, 2022

About the author

Rachelle Ayala is an award-winning USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. She writes emotionally challenging stories but believes in the power of love and hope.

Her book, Knowing Vera, won the 2015 Angie Ovation Award, and A Father for Christmas garnered a 2015 Readers' Favorite Gold Award. Christmas Stray was awarded the 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Award and A Pet for Christmas had an Honorable Mention. In 2017, her book about a single mother with an autistic son, Playing for the Save, won the 2017 Readers' Favorite Gold Award for Realistic Fiction.

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ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
Broken Build
Hidden Under Her Heart
Knowing Vera

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Taming Romeo
Claiming Carlos
Whole Latte Love
The Remingtons: Leap, Laugh, Love
The Remingtons: Blush of Love
Bad Boys for Hire: Ryker
Bad Boys for Hire: Ken
Bad Boys for Hire: Nick
Laguna Beach: Lucky in Laguna
Sapphire Falls: Going Haywire
Sapphire Falls: Going Toe to Mistletoe
Sapphire Falls: Going Hearts Over Heels

SPORTS ROMANCE
Played by Love
Playing the Rookie
Playing Without Rules
Roaring Hot!
Intercepted by Love
Playing Catch
Playing for the Save

SWEET ROMANCE
Christmas Stray
A Father for Christmas
A Pet for Christmas
A Wedding for Christmas
Christmas Lovebirds
Valentine Hound Dog
Spring Fling Kitty
Blue Chow Christmas
Valentine Wedding Hound

HOLIDAY ROMANCE
Christmas Flirt
Santa's Pet
Deck the Hearts
Her Christmas Chance
Sapphire Falls: Going Toe to Mistletoe
Bad Boys for Hire: Nick

HISTORICAL ROMANCE
Michal's Window

NON-FICTION
Your Daily Bible Verse
Romance In A Month
366 Ways to Know Your Character
Love Stories: Writing a Romance Novella

Reviews

[Aileen Fish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rachelle has given us not just a how-to book, but a self-analysis tool to examine how our brains write and thrive with it. She details her thought process using a book she wrote, explains where she had to retrain herself and shows how to succeed at writing quickly. Then, at the end of each chapter, she gives questions to ask yourself about how you write. The best thing is her key takeaway points at the end, guiding you to use what you've learned about yourself in writing your next book. She doesn't teach you her way, she helps you find your way.

A bonus is the books and guides she mentions along the way. I can recommend a few from experience, and I'm going to look into others right away. I've been in a stagnant spell with my writing and am excited to realize I can get my flow back! Thanks, Rachelle!

[Poetic Diva504 · Rating 1 out of 5]

I borrowed this book to see if there were any insights on how to push a whole novel out in 14 days. But this gives advice to panthers telling them that winging it is the way to go. I disagree with that. If you want your book selling widely, what would you rush a story? You can probably get a first draft done in that amount of time, but nothing worth publishing.

[Aleina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short and Informative

This book has some really good ideas for new and experienced writers. As you can tell from the title, it is meant more for pantsers but there is some useful information for plotters as well.