It’s day 7 of National Novel Writing Month. If you’re following the plan of writing about 1,660 words per day, you’ll have just shy of 12,000 words by the end of the today. If all is going well, by now, here’s what you have established in the past seven days:

• Your protagonist’s motivation
• Your setting–where and when the story takes place
• The point of view: who is telling the story, and from what distance?
• The premise: what is the primary conflict driving the novel?