UPDATE: I highly recommend also reading "The Plot Dot" by Derek Murphy of CreativeIndie.com for free templates and a free 24-chapter outline that also heavily draws from the same principles as what's mentioned in this book! Both the 'Agile Writer' Method and 'the Plot Dot' Method are broken into 8 stages -- and I feel that the Plot Dot one helps simplify the chapter breakdown even better. So go try it out! I'll update with my progress.


If you’re a writer and have struggled with whether to pants or plot your novel (writers you know what I mean) then this book might be the PERFECT SOLUTION for you. I’m a creative writer who finds myself at both ends of the spectrum—-my day job is writing software where we literally apply Agile development to our product mission, but yet when I’m sitting down at home trying to write a novel. The waterfall “plan every detail” itis jumps at me. I’ve gotten some headway with just following the Stephen King method of “just doing it” but just doing it has also landed me with 50k words of a novel half baked and half-illogical.


This book actually balances both. You can be an Agile writer! I worked on the Story Abstact and am working my way to the Hero Abstract and Agile Storyboard , and the pieces are falling into place. I love it. I run my own writing group on Goodreads too, so I would love to implement the book’s critique group advice into practice, among other things. Invaluable, and monumentally helpful for pie in the sky writers like m;)

Definitely would recommend if you’re a writer, give it a read!