It’s out in print and Kindle! And it’s in a new box set with Blockbuster Books, Broken Down–details below.
This book grew out of my experience editing and my own “final check list.”
101 Questions to Improve Your Novel: 
for Writing, Editing, Revising, and Polishing
From plot twists to dialogue, authors have a long list to think about when revising and polishing a novel. These 101 questions and explanations will help you improve and check your novel’s opening, plot and character development, conflict, pacing, dialogue, and of course the writing itself. After months or years of working on a story, it’s difficult to check the quality on every fiction element. 101 Questions looks at overarching issues, small details, and writing technique. You may learn about new techniques and tips, see a method differently, or realize that you forgot a trick. This handy list of 101 questions explores many possible ways to improve specific areas, add layers and depth, strengthen conflict, find plot holes, and identify writing issues.
Contents: Workshop and Checklist, All About STORY, All About Editing, The Beginning, Sample Openings, Plot & Structure, Chapters & Pacing, Scenes, Characters, Dialogue, Setting, The End, Strong Writing, & Final Checks
Sample Question – #40. Do all of your characters have strong feelings about each other?
Working on this element truly adds another layer to your story. In life, we meet people and classify them right away. It’s not often that we know a person but don’t have any opinions or feelings about them. But we see that in stories all the time.
Sometimes I read or edit a novel and have a hard time telling the characters apart. This arises when the characters aren’t distinct, but it’s also caused by a lack of feeling toward each other. If your hero really dislikes another character, that will color the hero’s description and interaction with that character.
Take a closer look at your work: make a list of all of your characters and then describe how your hero feels about them. If your hero doesn’t feel anything that shows in your story right now, do you need to make that character more colorful? And by colorful, I mean annoying, more pushy, more opinionated, more deceitful, more secretive, more talkative, more silent, more helpful, more sweet, more of a pushover, more something?
Look at the relationship between all of your main characters. It might help to make a chart. Then think about how they interact and secretly feel about each other. You can have a lot of fun in this area, and it really deepens your story.
And here’s the box set for anyone who doesn’t have Blockbuster Books already.
Both books are in Kindle Unlimited so you can borrow them,so people who aren’t signed up to use that program might want the box set.
And information on the second book:
Blockbuster Books, Broken Down
Learn from mega bestselling novels to build your own breakout plot!
Why start from scratch and reinvent storytelling? Instead, use a 7 point plot outline developed from wildly successful novels.
“Blockbuster Books, Broken Down” is a workbook style guide that reveals the structure and elements in huge bestsellers of the last fifteen years, many of which became movies. By breaking down these books, we can see how successful authors are breaking out by satisfying readers’ needs.
This is a hands-on fiction workshop packed with insights and activities to quickly teach you breakout plotting and novel development.
Kristen James 