A step-by-step guide to writing your first successful novel. The book’s author, an experienced writer-psychologist, will remove your excuses and clean up fantasies and misconceptions about modern literary creation. This practical manual will help you deal with the main writing difficulties. The book consistently reveals all stages of creating a novel—from working through fears, self-organization, and outside criticism, to creative crises, the author’s personal brand, and promotion of the finished text. In the middle is the richest “meat”: the perfect synopsis, cover, beginning and ending, characters, the world, and fiery dialogues! You’ll find 105 practical assignments to improve your texts and finally feel like a real writer. Vera Radostnaya (first and last name are real, Moscow) is a clinical psychologist, art-therapist with more than 25 years of creative experience, a writer, author of 17 books, and an expert for the TV channel “Domashny” and “Moskva 24.”