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Anybody Can Write a Novel - Outline by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
Anybody Can Write a Novel - Outline
Anybody Can Write A Novel - Outline
A Step-by-step Guide for Anyone to Learn How to Write a Novel
This is an Outline of all my current articles, and a look at what is to come. I will try to update it, at least once every two weeks. Also note that just because something is absent from the Outline does not mean I don't plan to write it. This is a compilation of only chapters that have already been written.
(You'll notice that I have neglected some points and chapters within this Outline. This this is simply a result of realizing that there is so much to learn, when it comes to writing. Don't worry, I'll be sure to come back and fill in the g
4 Tips for Personal Writers by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
4 Tips for Personal Writers
4 Tips for Personal Writers
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 9 “Types of Writers” – Section 11 “Personal Writers”
With Links to Supplementary Material
While some people write for a cause, for the love of story, and/or for profit, there are some who write for themselves—to process their emotions, thoughts, and experiences in life. Even those writers who have other primary motivators can also relate to this feeling. As human experience is tremendously universal, stories that are the result of personal writing have the same potential to help others in the same way they help the writer. However, with rev
7 Tips for Introducing Your Characters by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
7 Tips for Introducing Your Characters
7 Tips for Introducing Your Characters
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 5 “Choosing and Designing Characters” – Section 3 “Introductions”
With Links to Supplementary Material
When a reader first picks up a book, they create an instant connection with the author of the story—formed through a required level of trust just so that the two of you can immerse yourselves in the world you have created. The writer and the reader are, at that point, friends or pleasant acquaintances; and at that moment of relationship and immersion into the realm of story, the characters become just as real as the reader/write
8 Ideas for Optimizing Your Writing Workspace by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
8 Ideas for Optimizing Your Writing Workspace
8 Ideas for Optimizing Your Writing Workspace
Anybody Can Write a Novel Version 2.0
Chapter 1 “Beginning to Write” – Section 4 “Your Workspace”
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"My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents"
-Chuck Berry
In the same spirit of making yourself more self-motivated to write and warding off writer's block, a few of my readers have asked about optimizing your writing workspace for the utmost productivity. This presents something
10 Requirements for Writing a Publishable Novel by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
10 Requirements for Writing a Publishable Novel
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10 Requirements for Writing a Publishable Novel
Today, I would like to announce a project that I hope all of you will be as excited to be a part of as I am. As you all know, my writing guides and tutorials have been rather random, as I was still testing the waters of the internet. I wanted to know if anyone could possibly be interested in what I had to say about the craft of writing, and I was overjoyed to see all of your enthusiasm. And so, I would like to announce that I will be shifting gears
6 Difficult Truths of being a Writer / Artist by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
6 Difficult Truths of being a Writer / Artist
6 Difficult Truths of being a Writer / Artist
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 10 “Publishing and the Writing Life” – Section 1“Difficult Truths”
With Links to Supplementary Material
Choosing to be a writer has been one of the best decisions of my life; the craft fills me with a sense of purpose, and is honestly the most fun vocation that I could ever hope to do. I am tremendously fortunate to be at a place and time where doing something like this is even possible, and I would never pretend otherwise. However, every path is filled with its share of difficulties, challenges, and hard truths, and I hope that
Writing Prompts 2 by Hinxight, literature
Literature
Writing Prompts 2
1. Everyone found out
2. Outsider
3. Old-fashioned
4. It's always been this way
5. I know you did it
6. Hidden
7. Singer
8. While the music was playing...
9. He smiled, hiding the way he really felt
10. Perfect
11. Blue
12. Map
13. Had I just gone mad, or did I really see that?
14. Expensive
15. Complaining
16. Ship
17. Secret
18. Just let it go
19. Flying
20. The little kid suddenly started screaming
21. Memory
22. Violence
23. Scarf
24. Snowman
25. She raised her voice
26. I'm serious
27. Annoying
29. A dream I had last night
30. Stairs
31. A grin
32. We both knew
33. Curtains
34. Earrings
35. Laughter
36. Everyone was dancing, but no one n
7 Suggestions for Mapping Your Fictional World by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
7 Suggestions for Mapping Your Fictional World
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7 Suggestions for Mapping Your Fictional World
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 1 “World-building” – Section 3 “World Mapping”
With Links to Supplementary Material
So you now know what sort of Story you want to create, and have written a Timeline for the History of your world. Now, you must decide what parts of that created world you want to use. This step can be as specific or general as you would like—from creating a cartographic masterpiece, to sketc
7 Tips for Being a Responsible / Ethical Writer by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
7 Tips for Being a Responsible / Ethical Writer
7 Tips for Being a Responsible / Ethical Writer
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 7 “From Story to Art” – Section 2 “Ethical Writing”
With Links to Supplementary Material
Of all the elements of storytelling, the one that sets it apart from other forms of art is the relationship between the artist and the author. Not to say that a relationship does not or cannot exist in other forms of art, only that storytelling creates a necessary long and intimate connection between the author and reader—requiring trust between the two so that the story can be told. Today I'm going to discuss the process of earning
Writing Prompts by NinjaPixels, literature
Literature
Writing Prompts
Full Prompts/First Lines:
- A single gunshot in a smoky bar was what started it all.
- If I hadn't seen it for myself, I never would have believed it.
- It was raining when she left the house.
- He remembered riding down this street with his father only a year or so ago.
- She pressed a hand to her heart, digging her nails into her chest as if it would ease the pain.
- Jack had a gun pointed at her forehead and a dark look on his face.
- Whatever it was, it was going to kill him.
- There was nothing so tempting as a locked door.
- She clutched the phone and tried to calm down as the doctor continued his explanation.
- He hated flyin
8 Tips for Writing Dialogue for your Characters by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
8 Tips for Writing Dialogue for your Characters
8 Tips for Writing Dialogue for your Characters
Anybody Can Write a Novel
Chapter 5 “Choosing and Designing Characters” – Section 4 “Dialogue”
With Links to Supplementary Material
Dialogue is a tricky topic, and for two key reasons. The first is that creating realistic dialogue is a difficult skill to master—even in day-to-day life—without speech coming out plastic, pointless, or otherwise unconvincing. The second problem is that the proper dialogue for your story is deeply rooted within the other elements—the characters, the setting, the genre, etc... Because of this, writing dialogue tha
Writing Chapters Tutorial v.2 by TahBayEss, literature
Literature
Writing Chapters Tutorial v.2
DaGrblz's Process to Writing Chapters
version 2
Step 1: Plot Planning
Make a sort of timeline for your whole story.
-Draw a line across a paper
-Start the first entry at the very beginning, but write tiny and sideways, so there is room for every event on your timeline.
-This timeline gives general ideas of what will happen in the story.
-Now go back and mark the events of bigger importance and/or indicates a time skip/flashback in the story.
-This organizes my thoughts of where to begin and end a chapter.
Step 2: Chapter Planning
Write out the specific events of the chapter you are about to write.
-Get a piece of noteboo
Writing Tips - Organisation by ML-Larson, literature
Literature
Writing Tips - Organisation
Writing Without Confusing Yourself (Or Your Readers)
Writing is a very personal, individual undertaking. Everybody approaches the activity a bit differently from the next guy. Some people can come up with concept, plot, characters, and everything else and just sit down and write. Others need to take time to figure out what's going on; what's going to happen in the story, and how it all fits together. Others still will find themselves getting stuck somewhere along the middle, losing track of everything or changing an idea mid-way through, or never know how to end. These are the people for whom this has been put together. Those of you who can
