Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

by Lisa Cron

Envisioning who your protagonist is on the day before your novel starts will enable you to start figuring out exactly how he got there. You will soon learn much more about him, and the general details you unearth in your sketch will begin to expand.