A first session

Leave with a next step.

You can begin here with an idea, a draft or a finished manuscript. Choose the task closest to your story and give yourself one small piece of work to complete.

1. Choose a useful outcome.

For a new book, write a character’s immediate problem. For a screenplay, draft an exchange in which two people want different things. For an audiobook, choose a passage that will test the narration approach.

2. Try a change in a small example.

Use an original scene to practice before applying a change to your own manuscript. Keep the first version, change one meaningful decision and describe the effect in a sentence.

3. Explore your edition.

Open Cloud to write in your browser, or download the Mac or Windows app. Returning Cloud users can sign in from any page; new users can create an account from the edition chooser.

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