Have a great idea for a novel, but don't know where to start? Have you started your novel, but got bogged down after only the first few pages and don't know how to go on? Then this book is for you Chapter One is a companion book to a beginning writing course. This book can be used in conjunction with the course, or instead of it. Either way, you'll have fun reading and using this book to get started on writing your story.

In one day Scai has gone from being considered just unusual by the people of her little Welsh village to an outcast fleeing for her life. Left on the church steps as a baby, she knows nothing of her history-or her abilities. Did she really stop the rain just by wishing it to stop? But she is determined to learn all she can. Travelling alone to find her family seems to be the only way she's going to find the answers she seeks. Her journey leads her to the comical old knight Sir Dagonet, who tells her that she is one of a magical people called the Vallen. Together they continue on, joined by...