I’m writing a fantasy novel, i need tips on how to, can someone help me out?
I wrote books before, yet none of them were too good or published (i never tried to go to a publisher but I could guess the outcome). Can someone give me tips and good words or small ideas to use. Or you could provide a link to a VIDEO that could explain, but only video. Thank you to everyone who answers and especially thank you to who ever receives best answer!
- kickboychamp54
Tags: Books, Fantasy Novel, Guess, Writing Fantasy, Writing Tips
August 15th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
A) Don’t use cliches. they are boring.
B) have fun
August 18th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Two suggestions I have are:
1: start from the middle or even the end of your story and work your way from there. It helps to have better sense of what happened at the beginning and so on.
2. Don’t “force” your characters into existance. It’s best to write whatever is on your mind and revise later that way you can sit back and watch your character unfold by reading their reactions and thoughts to the situation you had put down. You’ll have better chance of knowing the characters for who they truly are and not what you want them to be.
That’s what I can give off hand. However, I would suggest you read a book that gives tips on writing. Personally, I own a small collection of such books (The Elements of Fiction Writing) from which my suggestions were conjured from. You might want to have a look at those too since they are written by authors who have been successful in selling fiction books.
Hope this helps – Sachiko
August 21st, 2009 at 11:01 am
NO VAMPIRES!
You have no idea how many kids feel they need to put vampires in theri fantasy stories. Just read A LOT of fantasy novels. Twenty should suffice. Well, I’ve read hundreds…but it depends on what your cup of tea is when it comes to how fast of a learner you are. If you can pick up plots and all that within twenty books, then you’re good to go.
August 24th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Well, I am certainly not published, but here’s my advice anyway.
First, I like to make an outline of the story before writing. I include any ideas I may have, sometimes even quotes the characters use during certain situations, but more especially details of the setting and character background that will be useful to the story. Just as a very basic example of how I would do this for a well-known story
I. Settings
. . A. Hogwarts
. . . . . subsections provide details – location, physical characteristics, history, residents (reference to characters)
. . B. Dursley home
II. Characters
. .A. Harry Potter
. . . . subsections provide details – background, personality, physical characteristics, relationships
. . B. Ron Weasley
III. Plots
. . A. Main plot
. . . . . subsections provide details – how the plot is introduced into the story, general direction of the plot, any specifics already determined should also be recorded so not later forgotten, including references to particular settings and characters involved
. . B. Sub-plot #1
. . . . . subsections provide details – as all of the above, plus how this integrates with the main plot
. . C. Sub-plot #2
Once you have a good outline (which you should add to frequently during writing), it should help provide real direction while you are writing. Don’t think of it as “written in stone”, however. Be willing to make sweeping changes to the outline if the quality of the story will be improved by such.
Jim
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