Start on Your Novel
How to Start Writing a Novel When You Don’t Know What to Do
You may brainstorm if you want to start your novel, or until your brain hurts. If you wish, you could time yourself for each creativity session. Since you were away from your other responsibilities, you may need to return to them. Write your ideas as they come to you.
Keep those pesky voices of the past like elementary school teachers who told you how wrong your grammar and spelling inaccuracies. Those things are not important while you brainstorm. Any and every idea that comes to your mind is worth jotting down. Remember, these new creative thoughts and words may not make sense while you brainstorm. Any written thoughts may produce results you’re looking for, but offer more ideas for your characters, scenes and/or plot.
“After deciding what my story was going to be about (an uncool teenager, who is new to town and becomes friends with the popular crowd, is forced to decide if being cool is all it’s cracked up to be), I then had to pick a genre.
I think this makes sense to do after you decide your story idea. Unless you’re dead-set on writing a mystery or a horror novel, I think you need to begin with the story itself, then figure out what genre is most suitable for it. There may be some exceptions to this, but for me, it worked best in this order.” More…
How to write a novel this year
“Before I begin, I talk to Frances Booth (a colleague, no relation), author of A Writer For All Seasons: Beat Blocks, Face Your Fears And Keep Writing. Apparently, I’m tackling it all wrong. Instead of looking for empty stretches, she says, I need to find regular short spells of time: “Start by finding 10 or 15 minutes, and once you get going, you’ll find a bit more. Even if that day arrives when your diary is clear of every other obligation, if you’re not already writing, you’ll just fill the time with something else.” More…
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