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Use WAGS To Vet Story Ideas
- Run every story idea through WAGS: World, Active character, Goal, and Stakes before you draft to avoid writing hundreds of pages in the wrong direction.
- Angela says a few hours or days of planning on WAGS saves months of rewriting a weak story.
Write To Genre Expectations
- Know the conventions of your genre before you write so you meet reader expectations (e.g., romance requires the couple to end up together).
- Angela stresses reading and researching microgenres because mysteries and thrillers follow very different rules.
Schedule Daily Word Goals On A Calendar
- Break a big project into daily targets on a printed calendar: Angela plans available days and writes 1–3k words per day for draft one.
- She crosses out nonworking days and tailors daily targets to your schedule until the first draft is done.