How To Start Novel Writing - YOP

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How To Start Novel Writing
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So, the point is How to be a Novel Writer?

• 1. Finalize a winning story idea
• It must captivate you so thoroughly you cant get
  it out of your head. Only this kind of idea will
  pull you to the keyboard every day and inspire
  you to write the novel youve always dreamed of
  and finally zeroed in.
• 2. Are you an Outliner or a Pantser
• There are novel writers who map out broad lines
  beforehand also known as outliners. And then
  there are pantsers, who start with an idea and
  see how it unravels. Often a writer is the hybrid
  of the two. Regardless, some form of structure is
  needed to keep oneself from burning out after few
  pages.

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3. Create an incredible main character

• The characters need to be enlivened and
  understood before putting them onto the paper.
  Your most important character is your
  protagonist, also known as your lead. The main
  character must have a character arc. In other
  words be a different, better-evolved person by
  the resolution in the end.
• 4. Expand your plot
• A plot is a place where things happen. Plot
  provides a structure to the whole process. It is
  the place where characters get evolved. It keeps
  the writer closer to the core idea or theme of
  his story. So, plot points need to be defined
  beforehand in order to proceed ahead in the line
  of what exactly you want to say.

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5. Research

• Even fiction/fantasies must make sense. Though
  fiction, by the very definition, is made up but
  to succeed it must be believable. It should be
  reasonable. So, a proper research process indeed
  is needed to detail out the various plot
  elements. The characters need to evolve in a
  believable frame. Of course, it is fiction and
  has to be made of still proper research is
  paramount for it to be a relevant tale.
• 6. Your Voice and Point of View
• A writers Point of View (POV) is more than
  simply deciding what voice to use First Person
  (I, me), Second Person (you, youre), or Third
  Person (he, she or it). It is also deciding who
  will your POV character be. Ideally, there should
  be one character per chapter or even per novel
  for the perspectives to unravel. Most novel
  writer write in third-person narratives.

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7. Start where the action is

• You must captivate the reader right from page
  one. The goal of every sentence, in fact of every
  word, should be to force the reader to read the
  next. The beginning should be about the guts of
  the story and what it really wants to convey.
• 8. Engage the readers mind
• The images our minds eye generates are far more
  imaginative and dramatic than anything cinema can
  produce. Your job as a writer is to trigger the
  theaters of readers minds. You have to engage
  their mental projectors. And thats where the
  magic happens.

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9. Intensify the main characters journey

• Conflict is the engine that drives fiction. The
  main protagonists journey is to be mired in
  terrible troubles one after the other. Now,
  everything he does to get out of that mess must
  make it progressively worse. His trouble should
  escalate sequentially because of his attempts to
  fix it.
• 10. Let the predicament be hopeless
• The more hopeless the situation, the more
  powerful your climax and resolution will be. The
  Bleakest Moment forces your hero to take the
  action. He uses every new muscle and technique
  gained from facing a lot of obstacles and proves
  that things only appeared beyond repair.

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