As part of the series Writing Your Novel YOUR Way, this book takes a personalized approach to the process of building a story plan. Read five books about writing a novel and your will find five different ideas for plot outlines. This book takes a different approach. It helps you discover an approach to planning a novel that is consistent with your own personality. You will learn the elements of plot, the strengths and weaknesses of different planning styles and how to optimize your novel planning to your own way of writing. This book strips away the padding and wordiness of many texts on the subject and gets right down to the essentials of turning your idea into a novel.