How To Write A Novel

By Leeanne Utiger
Knowing how to write a novel, can in fact become good knowledge for both personal gain in form of a hobby, or fact a financial gain, if you have intention on using your work for publishing.

You need to use your imagination, let your creativity soar and express what you feel in your words, relating to what you are in fact writing.

Novel writing can reflect you as a person to some degree, as it helps to have an interest or a passion on the form of writing you undertake. Novel writing can cover many varying topics, from romance to crime, from horror to science-fiction. It helps to relate and hold an interest in your chosen field of subject matter.

As you gain thoughts and ideas on what you would like to write about, note them down in a journal or diary, strictly for guidelines to yourself relating to your intended novel.

A good suggestion is to, have a fair idea on the whole of your novel, and then begin with either the ending, (how you want the novel to wind up), or the beginning (where you want your novel to start) - place, characters, plot and so on, and also have an idea on where you would like to be with your writing approximately midway through your novel. Concentrate on these three main places within your novel. Each at different times of course. You do not want to confuse the three places together. Note down your ideas and thoughts relating to each of the three places and go from there.

There is no necessity to work on any of these points in sequence. A novel is best written following thoughts of a place at any given time. Once you have your outlines noted down, play with your ideas and thoughts, then word them on paper, or open up a new file on your computer and create the place where you are at, expressing your ideas and thoughts into the written word, so that it all makes sense and flows with continual thought pattern. Be expressive and 'feel' the words you are writing come from within, as if you are in fact there in the novel, experiencing what you are in fact writing.

If you follow the simple, yet effective guidelines above, you will soon have your beginning, your mid-section and your ending. These are the three main points to work forward and backward from. Because you have already basically established the novel, it is just a matter of connecting all of these three given places up together with the bits in between to create your masterpiece of the written imaginative word.

You need to bear in mind, times, locations, characters you are bringing into your novel, eras (if need be) and even sometimes facts. It is important to know what you are writing about. So in saying that, some things you want to include in your novel, may in fact need to be researched a little about, before you included them in your novel.

Also keep in mind the gender or the age or the type of reader you are directing your written novel to. Put yourself in their position and on proof reading or editing what you have written, discover if in fact your own novel holds your own interest. If in fact it does not, then maybe you need to revise some or all of what you have worked on.

I feel it is an obstacle to get another to relate to, or enjoy what you yourself have created, yet do not like, or cannot get into (so to speak).

Happy Novel Writing

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