The Formula to Write a Novel
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
