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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

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 Anybody Can Write a Novel Version 2.0 Chapter 1 “Beginning to Write” – Section 4 “Your Workspace” (Previous Tutorial)              (Next Tutorial)                                                                       "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

23 WRITING PROMPTS 1. Insomnia 2. Opposites 3. Twilight (as in the time of day) 4. Touch 5. Eyes 6. Loss 7. Gravity 8. Question 9. Nature 10.  Music 11. Animal 12. Reunion 13. Violence 14. Wild 15. Death 16. Jeans 17. Addiction 18. Awkward Situation 19. Pockets 20. Friendship 21. song (giving the writing the same title as a song or using lines from a song, similar to a songfic) 22. redone fairytale(a diffarent version or parody of a fairytale, legend, or folk story) 23. Home

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

-----Original Message----- I want to write a story. I have a couple of ideas, but no idea what to do with them, or even how to begin! Help?! -- Newbie Writer So when you wanna write a story, where do you begin? With your PASSION! Write what you KNOW & LOVE What do you KNOW, really? What do you love to Do, to Study, to Think About, to Talk About...? Whether it's cave-diving, model trains, skate-boarding, sewing, horses, mythology, ghost legends, or particle physics your passion is where you will find your most unique and powerful work. Make a list of all the things you know well and all the things you've done -- seriously! Mythology

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

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 8 Tips for Plotting the Timeline of Your Fictional World Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 1 “World-building” – Section 2 “World History” With Links to Supplementary Material Once you have established what Type of Story you want to write, you have created the cornerstone of your story—an idea or a blank page of the exact size and shape and color that you want. The next step is to start the sketch by creating a historical foundation for your story. Now, I'

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

~Valuable Character Bio Creation Advice And Information~ • NONO: The BIGGEST nono for bios is putting something like “unknown” or “N/A” in a bio category of a character. First of all, why did you even include that category in your bio just to pass it up? It’s an eyeroll for a serious writer to see these things in bios. Even if the character or other characters don't know their name or even their age or parents, it should ALWAYS be listed in the bio. These are things that everyone has (unless they are a robot). • CATEGORIES: I have included a blank bio form with all the categories I find to be necess

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

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 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

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 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

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

I recently solicited my watchers to ask me writing questions that I would then attempt to answer in a writing guide such as this. This article is my first response, and there will be many more to come. I've been asked to give advice on ways a writer can begin to put words on a page. The bottom line is as simple as this: sit your butt down and write. Duh, right? It's the only way I know to actually write. Sure, sitting your butt in a chair is easy, but getting your fingers to move and stay moving is a challenge. Here are three things that have helped me. 1) Have a goal. Your goal can be as simple as "describe the person in this picture" o

Maybe you’ve heard that first drafts are supposed to suck, but what does that really mean? What does a sucky first draft look like? How do you allow yourself to suck? Why would you even want to allow yourself to write something that sucks in the first place? Because otherwise, you’ll most likely be crippled by the writer’s arch nemesis: perfectionism. Did you just cringe? We all experience it when we sit down to write, arrange everything just so, type a sentence or two (or a bit more if you’re lucky), and then it strikes—your inner editor. It smacks you across the face and demands that you fix that grammar mist

Ultimately, this gets back to the foundations of why we as a human race tell stories. We want to communicate ideas, spread knowledge, share secrets, engage with our contemporaries, entertain, inspire, call to action, and move people. Sure, you can do most of those things without telling a story, but stories are powerful because they connect with people on an emotional level. In order to make this connection, people have to relate to the story and feel like it’s their story, like they are a part of it and it was made for them. They have to see themselves or a version of themselves in the story so that it speaks to them personally as well

Dear Writer, I don’t like you. I’ve never liked you. Unfortunately, I need you. I need you to tell my story. I need you to create my world. I need you to set me free. I need your fingers typing on those keys, I need your mind riddling out the problems, and I need you to plough onward and upward no matter how hard it gets. Sweat, blood, and tears, I don’t care. You’ve got to fight this war, battle at a time, and win it. So I can be more. It’s a slim hope, but it is the only one I have. In your head I am bound to mortality, frailty, and the limit of your meagre imagination. Out there – out there – I

100 Writing Prompts 1.  It's like a riddle, you see. 2.  Rain was falling in the street. 3.  They say a monster lives in those hills. 4.  I tried opening it, but it's like it was locked. 5.  The sky was so heavy I could almost touch it. 6.  Why did he bring me here? 7.  I keep having the same dream. 8.  I always knew this would come back to haunt me. 9.  How did the windows get so dirty? 10.  I don't think they've mowed their lawn in weeks. 11.  That's what happens when two people like that meet. 12.  He really had to borrow a cup of sugar. 13.  The water stopped flowing from the tap. 14.  That old tree finally fell last night.