
How to Write a Novel 4.2: The Planning Process
Everyone who has been to primary school probably knows that a story has to have a beginning, a middle and an end, and some will even remember that there has to be a problem and a resolution in there somewhere. Maybe there will also be a vague idea about a 'story mountain', and, depending on how artistic your teachers were, there will also be a memory of a prettily drawn mountain, something like this: ... the idea being that when the story starts everything is fairly normal an