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Finish Your F*&^%$G Novel

A 30-Day Novel-Finishing System

$13

Everything you need to figure out what’s left, keep the draft moving, and get to the end.

The draft gets to be bad. It doesn’t get to stay unfinished.

Printed to order, coil-bound so the pages lie flat, and shipped free to US addresses in about two to three weeks. The PDFs come with it: download them right after checkout. Buying it as a gift? Ship it straight to them. The QR code on the last page gets them the PDFs too.

You have a novel. Sort of.

There are tens of thousands of words sitting on your computer, but the book still isn’t finished. Maybe you keep going back to fix Chapter 4 or the middle has turned into a swamp. Maybe you know how the book ends but can’t seem to get there.

Finish Your F*&^%$G Novel is built for that part.

Use it to take inventory of the draft you already have, figure out what is still missing, build a realistic 30-day plan, keep small problems from derailing writing sessions, and recover when the plan inevitably gets knocked sideways.

No hero’s journey lecture. No demand that you throw out the manuscript and outline the whole thing again. The job is to finish the draft.

What's inside

  • Practical tools

    Scene inventory, bracket system, revision parking lot, recovery plans, 30-day trackers, and other tools built to keep the draft moving.

  • Type directly or print

    Fill it out on your laptop or tablet, or print it and write all over it. Both versions are included.

  • Built for unfinished novels

    Not a plotting course. Not a craft lecture. A system for figuring out what’s left, getting unstuck, and getting to THE END.

Look inside

  • The Novel Triage page: current word count, where the draft stops, whether you know how it ends, and what is keeping you from finishing.
    Novel Triage
  • The Remaining Scene Inventory: a numbered table for every scene still to write, its point of view, and whether you know how it goes.
    Remaining Scene Inventory
  • The 30-Day Master Tracker for days 1 to 8: today’s target, what you finished, and a done box.
    30-Day Master Tracker
  • The bracket system page: what to bracket, what not to hide in brackets, and a quick test for when to keep moving.
    Brackets Are Your Friend
  • The Revision Parking Lot: a table for the problem, where it appears, and a possible fix.
    Revision Parking Lot
  • The Recovery Plan: days left, what absolutely has to be written, what can go or wait, and a plan for the next three writing days.
    Recovery Plan

Key features

  • Novel Triage diagnostic
  • Remaining Scene Inventory
  • 30-day planning and tracking system
  • Bracket system for problems that can wait
  • Revision Parking Lot
  • Mid-draft reality check
  • Ending-focused planning tools
  • Recovery plan for missed days and bad weeks
  • Printable PDF
  • Fillable PDF

Purchase includes a printable PDF and a fillable PDF. Use the printable version for handwriting and annotation, or type directly into the fillable version on a compatible PDF reader.

Printed to order, coil-bound so the pages lie flat, and shipped free to US addresses in about two to three weeks. The PDFs come with it: download them right after checkout. Buying it as a gift? Ship it straight to them. The QR code on the last page gets them the PDFs too.

Download right after checkout, and we email you the links too — they work for 30 days. Lose them? Email [email protected] and we'll send more. Not what you expected? Reply to your receipt within 30 days and we'll refund it.