Questions

Writing a novel begins with a simple idea. That story idea is what will lead you to your story plot, which is the core of what you need for writing a novel.

Plot is simply the plan of your story. It’s the movement of the ***?ople in your story through situations and through ***?ttings to get to certain goals. Some novel ideas are about a situation. Some ideas about a character. No matter where your idea starts, you must turn the idea into a plot if you ****?t enough story for writing a novel.

How do you do this? By ***?king questions. The two questions you ****?t to ***?k to transform an idea into a plot are: What if. What if is the ***?ed question to every novel plot. To get a ***?ll, complex plot, you must ***?k this question over and over and over and over.

For example, take the idea of an alternate universe where ***?t is considered beautiful. To transform this idea into a plot you might ***?k, what if a very obese woman from our universe ended up in this alternate universe? What would that be like for her? What if she suddenly was considered drop-dead gorgeous in this alternate universe? What would that be like for her? What if she started losing weight? What if by losing weight, she ends up ***? unhappy in this universe ***? she was in the one she left behind? Do you ***?e how this works? You play with what if.

Once you’ve ***?ked the what if questions ***?veral ***?mes, you are ready to ***?k the next question. Why? The why question expands on your what if questions. You use why to flesh out the scenarios you came up with ***? a result of ***?king what if.

For example, one of the what if questions for the alternate universe idea could be, ‘what if the main character started losing weight?’ To expand on this what if, you would ***?k, ‘Why’. Why would she lose weight? The why would take you back to what if. What if she lost weight because she was so happy that she no longer ate to cover her pain?

That what if would lead you to another why: Why, if she ate to cover pain, wouldn’t she just eat again once she started losing weight in the new reality? Wouldn’t that make her unhappy enough to binge again? Why wouldn’t she just go back to eating a lot?

That why, again, will take you to a what if: What if she no longer ****?ts to eat to cover pain and something in her experience of this new universe has changed her. She just doesn’t know what it is. What if? Why? Do you ***?e the process? You ***?k what if. That gives you information. Then you ***?k why. That gives you more information, which leads you back to what if.

It’s impossible to structure novel plotting much more than this. It’s a general brainstorming process that requires your mind to be free and ***?ll of possibility. This brainstorming is what will give you the foundation of what you need for writing a novel.


- Karin Manning

Many ***?ople are ***?piring  to be  novel writers. it is not something so easy ****?h that anybody can just write ****? for those that have the proven ***?crets it is not hard. So how do youget the proven ***?crets?

Secrets to ****?cess in novel writing:

 

You have to believe in yourself first,agree on the philosophy “you can ****? only when you think you can”

nove  writing requires writer to be creative in their various ways, it takes willingness of heart.

As  a writer we must learn how to be positive at all ***?mes

Learn how to utilize and relate all ideas that comes to our memory on daily basis with our writings in ****?ha waythat it will capture readers attention.

Have a clear identifiable goals before writing a novel, ***? a writer we must let our writings be goal based,success can be attain in novel writing through having a clear identifiable goals before writing it.

Open up to new ideas in novel writing,a novel writer must not grow old for his/her mind, writer must live in a state of expectancy ever open to new ideas in novel writing.

To be ****?cessful in novel writing writer must be ever alert,inquisitiveand eager to know more about novel writing and ****?cessful novel writers

You need to know the novel writing rules,You need to be clear about the purpose of all this hard work, too. Yes, there is money to be made from writing fiction, ****? if it’s money that motivates you…well, let’s just say there have got to be easier ways of turning a buck. The same thing goes for chasing ***?me.The best reason for writing is to do it for its own sake. Write a novel because you ****?t to write a novel. If you go on to ***?ll it, that’s just the icing on the top.

If you leally ****?t to make ****?cess in your novel writing, those are the things that would bear looking into…

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- TAIWO OLAOLUWA

Not that I CAN write a novel in a month, ****? now that I think about it, I don’t know why November was chosen ***? NaNoWriMo. November may be one of the more boring months of the year, ****? it’s not the MOST boring. Sure, Canada has just Remembrance Day, ****? you Americans not only have Veteran’s Day, ****? also the Thanksgiving weekend which pretty much kicks off the Christmas ***?ason. Tell me you would rather write a ****?k than spend ***?me with your ***?mily on Thanksgiving, or go shopping on Black Friday… LOL!

Now, with January, all you have is New Year’s Day. Sure, there’s also Epiphany on the 6th, and Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday on the 15th, ****? they can’t nearly be ***? special ***? the American Thanksgiving in November. Not only that, ****? January is said to be one of the coldest months (I think the average temperature is -20 degrees Celcius, unless you live somewhere where it’s typically warm in the winter, like Arizona or the south of Florida) and the most depressing month of the year, where ***?ople would rather stay inside in front of TV than ***?ce a blizzard and/or a long cold streak.

Let’s ***?ce it, they don’t call them the “January blahs” for nothing. What better way to ****. up this month than to write an exciting novel for contest purposes, lose yourself in ***?ntasy?

On top of that, with January ***? NaNoWriMo, you have an extra day to complete your 50,000-word manuscript (31 days this month, ***? opposed to 30 in November.)

So what do you think? Wouldn’t you say that January would be a better month for this than November?
- Sharon Abbott (Y&R) Must Die

Writing a novel is dream that many of us hold in our hearts, your novel does not have to be your dream. All you need is to dedicate some time to learn how to bring out that novel inside you. A new e-guide, Bring out the Novel Inside You, has been written to help you make your dream come true. Here is some great advice from this e-guide.

When we write we become all of the actors and actresses. We need to feel, and not inhibit our expression. We should let it fly.

Now, here’s a formula I want you to concentrate on and remember forever.

Novices worry about grammar. If they should happen to have a publisher’s formula sheet, they worry about word count.

They write a sentence or two, study and re-read it. Then, they immediately begin to re-write it. They spend hours getting just a few words just right.

STOP – DON’T DO THIS

Here is the formula – the only formula.

Begin to use it now in this very lesson.

When you have your idea for your article, book, novel, novella, short story, ebook, advertisement, whatever – just write!

Sit down and write as though no-one in the entire world would ever see what you’ve written.

Because no one will see it!

Well, not in that condition.

Let the ideas flow.

Grammatically they may be wrong. Your ideas may even be entirely out of context, but just let it happen. The time will come when it will all fit together. Things will go in – things will go out.

No sweat. Stop worrying.

You will never enjoy life quite so much as you will by working on your own manuscript.

I promise. It will become a daily habit.

You will begin to hear things you seldom noticed before.

You’ll see things you never saw before. Ice tinkling in a glass and the whisper of leaves all add to the full-blown scene you’re writing instead of being just flat words on paper.

Bring out the Novel Inside you is a great e-book, but it isn’t going to be just a dull list of rules and regulations for you to follow or commit to memory. Nothing is more deadly to the senses than that and, heaven knows, there’s enough deadening of senses going on without more. Instead, the e-book is more like a conversation between the author and the reader. That’s much more palatable, I believe.

You can start to bring out that novel that is inside you today!


- Elizabeth St Denny Mfa

Do you think I will have a hard time finding a job after I graduate? I suppose the Creative Writing degree will show that I can can write, but it’s more focused on novel and poetry writing. My brother says I messed up and that I should have double major in communications and marketing, but I originally went to school for creative writing. What do you think?
- KakaSakuFan

Short stories have not always found their place in great literature. Thanks to great writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Anton Chekhov and others, short stories have received great notoriety.

Short story writing is a unique art and vastly different than novel writing in form and purpose. Where novel writing is complicated, has many things going on and creates a world of possibilities, short story writing focuses on a quick, powerful impact.

Charles May wrote, “If the novel creates the illusion of reality by presenting a literal authenticity to the material facts of the external world, as Ian Watt suggests, the short story attempts to be authentic to the immaterial reality of the inner world of the self in its relation to eternal rather than temporal reality.

“If the novel’s quest for extensional reality takes place in the social world and the material of its analyses are manners as the indication of one’s soul, as Lionel Trilling says, the field of research for the short story is the primitive, antisocial world of the unconscious, and the material of its analysis are not manners, but dreams.

“The results of this distinction are that whereas the novel is primarily a social and public form, the short story is mythic and spiritual. While the novel is primarily structured on a conceptual and philosophical framework, the short story is intuitive and lyrical. The novel exists to reaffirm the world of ‘everyday’ reality; the short story exists to ‘defamiliarize’ the everyday.

“Storytelling does not spring from one’s confrontation with the everyday world, but rather from one’s encounter with the sacred (in which true reality is revealed in all its plenitude) or with the absurd (in which true reality is revealed in all its vacuity).”

Thus writers of short stories take a different approach and use different techniques than that of novel writers. Rather than looking at the outward world for familiar like the novel, the short story looks at the inward world of the individual and tries to defamiliarize the outside world. By doing so the short story is a powerful way to point out individual and social misunderstandings.

As a result the reader of short stories can focus on the pivotal climax of the short story as the peak of what the author is trying to get across. The art is to see the short scenes before the climax and how the make the pivotal moment happen in such a short amount of time.

Being that the short story is short, authors need not concern themselves with unnecessary details that will distract from the authors goal. When writing short stories it may be appropriate to write and write and write, then cross out half of what has been written. This will help eliminate unnecessary, distracting details.

Short stories are not novellas either. Novellas are simply short novels and they strive for a similar effect of a novel. Some longer short stories may resemble a novella because of length but; the intent, design and focus is different.

The short story gives glimpses of lives and events; whereas, the novel or novella encapsulate entire lives and multiple events. Some short stories span whole lives, showing different glimpses of a life. This is different than a novel or novella because, the short story will show certain events that work toward its aim and focus.


- Christopher Anderson

e.g. fiction writing, novel writing, getting started.
- TJL

I am a writing in training and am writing a novel. I would like to find out if what i have written so far is any good, whether people like it and if it is worth carrying on with. But i am worried of posting it on the internet as people may steal my idea. Is there any way i can find out what people think?
- Emily L

After I finish that novel, im planning to publish it. Im worried about finding publishers for it.

My name is Maithili.
- mithu

I have a mac book pro and I know that there are programs available to help you write and manage screen plays (different sections for character bios, outlines, ways to jump from chapter to chapter), but I was wondering if there was one specifically for writing novels. After 12 chapters I’ve had to start saving each chapter separately and already they are getting screwed up.
- Isabella