How to Write the Novel of Your Dreams. Read this before you think it's too late.
- Lisa La Colla
- On Writing ✎
A year ago, my novel didn’t exist. I had just finished teaching a Screenwriting Workshop, wondering what my next steps were. Should I concentrate on my singing? Or my Online Business? Or my acting? Should I just for once decide only one thing that I want in my life? Should I grow up and find a regular job with a steady income?
Then, boom. I found out I was a finalist for a Literary Competition I had enrolled in a couple of months earlier. I had sent the first Chapter and that was all that I had. Now, they were asking me to send the entire manuscript within 3 weeks.
What it initially felt like Mission Impossible became the craziest thing I have ever done in my life. I wrote my first draft in 22 days.
Now: I’m not saying I necessarily reccomend this adventure cause it was stressful. And of course, my first draft needs a lot of re-writing to be done.
However I’ve realized that:
I would have never started if it hadn’t been for that deadline that was imposed to me.
I started before I was ready. I hadn’t read all the historical books I had chosen for inspiration. I hadn’t planned a perfect routine schedule. I hadn’t freed up my time.
And I did it anyway.
So I decided to create a 30-day Challenge for anyone who needs an external boost to get started (without burning out in the process!)
What this Challenge is
It’s the system I use at Storytelling With Love to teach how to start writing a new story from scratch to its finished first draft, broken into 30 actionable daily tasks.
We start with your story idea: your motivation, your inspiration, your logline. Then we start working on your main characters: their goal, need, arc of transformation. We build a system that supports your writing and pushes you into writing the first chapter of your novel in 30 days.
Every task comes with a mini-lesson (blog posts, video, images, templates) that I’ve created for you where I show you the content of the task, its meaning and the storytelling foundation connected to it.
The Challenge is set up for your own success: this means that if complete all the daily tasks within 30 days you earn your right for a 60-Minute Zoom Coaching Session with Me (Value of my Power Call: €150), where we’ll go through your Chapter and I’ll give you constructive feedback to keep supporting your Novel.
How does the Challenge Work
After you signed up, you immediately get access to your personal portal where you’ll find your Challenge. The first task is already unlocked and ready for you to be done.
From now on, every day for the next 30 days you’ll get notified via email the moment your new task is unblocked.
Imagine ONLY a month from now
You sit down to write with purpose and you know exactly that your first chapter is ready, because the Challenge decides the small step you take every day.
You can now go on with Chapter 2 and re-use the challenge as many times as you want. You’re not wandering anymore, waiting for the perfect time to write your book.
You know how to do it. Cause you’re already doing it!
Overview of the Challenge
My Warmest Welcome
Overview of the Challenge & How it Works
The Foundations of a Story
Your Logline
Identifying Your Character’s Goal & Need
How to integrate the Five Senses into your Writing
The Three Act Structure
Understanding the Freedom of Your Three Act Structure
Writing the Main Plot Points:
Writing Rituals
Setting up the habits the work for you
Making your Writing Time the best moment of your Day
Your 60-minute Call with Me
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You Made It! You’ve Written your First Chapter in 30 Days.
Now send it to me and we hop on a Power Call for constructive Feedback for Free!
(Value of my Power Call: €150) ✨
To celebrate its launch, the challenge will only cost €29 until July 30th before the cost goes up to €49.
Here’s what I know about your current stage
You’re busy. You can’t find the right time to write. The days have become years.
You know that writing a novel is your ultimate dream, yet you haven't done anything to actually make it happen, to outline your plot, or to bring those amazing characters to life. And now "Not having written it yet" has become part of your internal narration.
The good news is: you can stop dreaming and actually start writing today.
I created this Challenge because I know exactly what it felt to sit down, not really knowing what I was supposed to do with my novel, wondering if I should just forget it. I wish I had straight, actionable tasks ready for me back them. This is exactly that: the roadmap, from the Coach who figured out the hard way, so you can have it easy.
Remember that you readers can’t fall in love with your novel if it stays in your thoughts. And NOT because your idea isn't brilliant. But because they simply can't buy a blank page. THIS challenge replaces excuses with a bulletproof daily routine, giving you the plan you need to finally take action and get your first chapter done.
If you have any question, please message me, send a pigeon, call me. I’ll be here for you.
With So Much Love,
Let Me Introduce your new coach - me!
Hi, I’m Lisa La Colla!
I am a creative, empathetic, visionary writer, performer, business owner and coach.
(With an obsession over the color-palette of this website, but I'm healing).
I'm a Phantom of the Opera groupie, I can watch Friends like it's my first time and I yelled at a teacher who stated that characters don't exist (seriously, these people 🙄)
My mission is supporting writers and creatives to get their stories written and make them feel great about themselves. Because each story has the potential to change this world for the better.
Danger warning: I'll probably get emotional when you finish your story's first draft.
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