Book cover for Write Your First Novel by Gilbert Morris and Steve Laube

Write Your First Novel

2023 Released
240 Pages
4-6 Hours
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Christian Writers InstituteISBN 9781621842446
You Can Become a Successful Novelist
Foreword by Jerry B. Jenkins

This book will revolutionize the way you write and create stories! With step-by-step instructions from two publishing veterans, you'll learn the essential elements of plot, character development, dialogue, and setting. This book will give you the confidence to create stories that captivate readers and the knowledge to take your writing to the next level.

What's Included in This Book:
- Strategies to write gripping stories that readers won't be able to put down
- Techniques to make your characters come alive on the page
- Tips to realistically portray settings and dialogue
- Advice on how to develop your plot and keep readers hooked

"You need to read this book if you want to be a better writer."
-- Dallas Jenkins, creator of The Chosen

"Reading this book is like sitting at the feet of two stellar teachers as they unpack the secrets to fiction writing."
-- Steven James, Christy Award Hall of Fame author, and author of Story Trumps Structure

"Practical, instructive, thorough, and useful for the new writer, old writer, and aspiring writer alike."
-- Nadine Brandes, three-time Carol Award-winning YA author

"The lessons you learn in this book will serve you the rest of your writing life."
-- James Scott Bell, Christy Award-winning author, and author of Write Your Novel from the Middle

"An amazingly valuable resource. This will now become one of my go-to resources when training writers, too!"
-- Tricia Goyer, USA Today best-selling author and mentor at WriteThatBook.Club

"Laube's additions to Morris's classic work are full of Christian wisdom and down-to-earth advice from someone who knows the industry inside and out."
-- Kyle Mann, best-selling novelist and Editor-in-Chief, The Babylon Bee

Gilbert Morris

Gilbert Morris spent ten years as a pastor before becoming Professor of English at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas, and did postgraduate work at the University of London. His publishing credits include some two dozen scholarly articles, 200 poems, and more than 200 novels, including series such as House of Winslow, Lions of Judah, and Cheney Duvall, M.D. (coauthored with his daughter, Lynn Morris). Dr. Morris passed away in February 2016.

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