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You've got your idea, your hero, your cast, your plot, your voices, and your settings. Now I'll show you how to turn all of it into a plan for every single chapter of your finished book.
Both example novels are free to read on Wattpad (links below) — no ads, no catch.
This is the episode where everything comes together. I'll walk you through turning your beats and characters into a chapter-by-chapter outline. This is one living scene list that becomes the single source of truth for your whole novel.
By the end you'll have a roadmap detailed enough that the actual writing becomes the easy part: you'll always know what each chapter needs to do, whose scene it is, and how it hands off to the next.
You'll learn how to:
1. Turn your Save the Cat beats into individual scenes and chapters
2. Build one living scene list that tracks setting, emotion, voices, and conflict per chapter
3. Decide what each chapter must accomplish (and cut the ones that don't)
4. End every chapter on a "just one more chapter" hook. An unresolved question or value flip
5. Keep continuity locked as the book grows
I use two of my own novels as living examples — both free on Wattpad:
Hi Bob, It's Gus — my finished novel, with its full chapter-by-chapter plan laid out:
How to Survive Paris with No Money, No French, and No Idea — the first-person novel I'm outlining and writing live across this series:
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2026/10/02
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