Page One to Done by Jessica Brody

Finally finish the first draft of your novel with a method designed to bring efficiency, speed and joy to the process.

Do you feel like you’ve spent so much time writing just to be left with a folder full of false starts – stories you were so excited to write but gave up midway through? Are you trapped in an endless cycle of rewrites, self-doubt and perfectionism?

Enter fast drafting- a fool-proof method for getting your book out of your head and onto the page. Based on her popular course, Jessica Brody, author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, will guide you through the process of getting through a first draft as quickly (and messily) as possible so you can not only get it done but, more importantly, discover your story faster and get to the revision process with clarity.

Jessica infuses the key elements of persistent forward momentum and invisible revising into her 3-phase approach-

Mindset- Overcome perfectionism and self-doubt
Preparation- Flesh out the details of your story
Drafting- Put everything together and write your first draft in the quickest way possible

Within 30 days, you’ll gain the mental space and freedom to easily and joyfully finish every project you start.

About the Author: Jessica Brody is the best-selling author of the popular novel-writing guides Save the Cat! Writes a Novel and Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel and the founder of the online writing school, Writing Mastery Academy. She has also written over 20 novels for teens, tweens, and adults including The Geography of Lost Things, The Chaos of Standing Still, A Week of Mondays, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, Amelia Gray is Almost Okay, the Unremembered trilogy, and the System Divine series, co-written with Joanne Rendell. Her books have been translated and published in over 20 languages and several have been optioned for film and television. She lives with her husband and three dogs near Portland, OR.

19 May 2026
 

Page One to Done: Finish Your Novel in 30 Days with the Fast Drafting Method by Jessica Brody ISBN 9798318604393