Jen's Writing Journey

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Novelist and writing consultant Roz Morris is offering a free PDF download of her book Nail Your Novel–no registration required. Those of you who finished a novel during NaNoWriMo may be looking for tips to help you assess what you wrote and revise your draft.

Roz visited us earlier this year to talk about her beat sheet, which she describes in more detail in Nail Your Novel. Her book provides advice and tips that can help even the most discouraged writer get back on track and finish a novel that has the planning and execution necessary to be sold in this market.

Download your copy here, and while you are at Roz’s site, feel free to peruse some of her posts. She has some great resources there.

• Book Review: Who Moved My Cheese? What does Who Moved My Cheese have to do with writing? You mean besides the lesson that you can write a book about darn near anything?Seriously, there were two lessons I got from the book that are helping me build my writing business.Don't resist change. Markets change, and if......
• Writing Roundup, Aug. 14 So many great resources, so little time. Thus, I avoid preamble and move directly into this week's links. The Business of Writing 5 Reasons Pitches Can Be Detrimental Rather Than Helpful Jane Friedman, who took pitches at the Willamette Writers Conference, offers a little advice to writers making pitches: Don't......
• Writing Roundup It has been a week filled with lots of bad news about layoffs and downsizing at many media outlets and publishing houses.In the spirit of "This, too, shall pass," though, I'm not linking to the bad news and sensationalism. Instead, I'm looking to the future. The growth of electronic books......
• Planning a Blog Tour I've been working for the last few months to plan a virtual tour to promote my book The Best of Learning & Leading with Technology. It is a lot more work pulling it all together than I would ever have dreamed. I've learned a few lessons about this monumental organizing......
• Freelancers You Should Follow Twitter is all about connections and networking, right? Well, here are some of the essential people to follow on Twitter to help you build your freelance career. (Listed in no particular order) @DebNG: Deb is the founder of the Freelance Writing Jobs blog. She tweets about the freelance life and......

• Free Suze Orman Book Download. If you have seen her on television and have always wanted to see what Suze Orman was all about, this is your chance to do...
• Investing Made Simple If you're further ahead in your financial goals than me, you might be thinking "what do I do now?". If you're free of debt, have...
• Car Buffs: Free PDF download of World of Cars 2006 If you are a car person, such as myself, this is pretty cool. Plus, it's FREE! Over at The World of Cars, they have a...
• 10 Tips to Creating an Awesome Book Club by First Mate Keira, guest blogger Love books? Have friends that love them too or want to find new book-loving friends? Start a book club!...
• 2nd Edition of Romancing the Novel Carnival Welcome to the second edition of romancing the novel since it's reinstatement. We were a little light again this month on submissions so I filled...