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How do you write a novel?
Start at one end and finish at the other?
Sort of. But there's a little more to it than that.
Is it difficult?
Sometimes.
Is it frustrating?
Can be.
Is there anything else I'd rather do?
Not a chance.
Looking for inspiration?
A story can't be forced. It comes from inside you, like it's always been there. You just need something to bring it out. That something can be a word or a phrase you might overhear that triggers a domino-effect. It might be a flash of an image you catch in the corner of your eye; a sound - the clopping of hooves, the scream of a siren, a baby's cry; a smell - lavender, linseed oil, Marmite. It all depends on what's in your brain and how you arrange that jigsaw to make your own personal picture.
You could also try online writing prompts. Here's one:
creativewritingprompts.com/
A story can sometimes get a bit above itself and start turning into a novel. Don't think about it too much because the enormity of the task can make you feel a bit panicky. Just write. Keep yourself interested - because if it's boring you, it's going to bore your reader too - and have your ending in sight. If you know where you're going, you can plot a path. If you're not sure of your ending, it all starts to get a bit wavery.
What does it feel like when you're really into writing your novel?
Almost like riding breathless on a roller-coaster. Writing carries me away to a new world - one where Jesus never existed, or where a man has been engineered to have a womb and deliver his own baby. Writing takes me to the Red Planet where settlers have been living for two hundred years and are starting to adapt. It sweeps me up into the stars to find a planet with an amazing new life-form.
I currently have ten books and a novella published on Amazon - novels about a fat guy's love problems, a Sicilian girl's innocence, outcasts, dysfunctional families and what life was like when I was one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
www.amazon.co.uk/G.-L.-Sheridan/e/B00KB0YGI6/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1528190217&sr=1-2-ent
photo - Maria Dickinson
Start at one end and finish at the other?
Sort of. But there's a little more to it than that.
Is it difficult?
Sometimes.
Is it frustrating?
Can be.
Is there anything else I'd rather do?
Not a chance.
Looking for inspiration?
A story can't be forced. It comes from inside you, like it's always been there. You just need something to bring it out. That something can be a word or a phrase you might overhear that triggers a domino-effect. It might be a flash of an image you catch in the corner of your eye; a sound - the clopping of hooves, the scream of a siren, a baby's cry; a smell - lavender, linseed oil, Marmite. It all depends on what's in your brain and how you arrange that jigsaw to make your own personal picture.
You could also try online writing prompts. Here's one:
creativewritingprompts.com/
A story can sometimes get a bit above itself and start turning into a novel. Don't think about it too much because the enormity of the task can make you feel a bit panicky. Just write. Keep yourself interested - because if it's boring you, it's going to bore your reader too - and have your ending in sight. If you know where you're going, you can plot a path. If you're not sure of your ending, it all starts to get a bit wavery.
What does it feel like when you're really into writing your novel?
Almost like riding breathless on a roller-coaster. Writing carries me away to a new world - one where Jesus never existed, or where a man has been engineered to have a womb and deliver his own baby. Writing takes me to the Red Planet where settlers have been living for two hundred years and are starting to adapt. It sweeps me up into the stars to find a planet with an amazing new life-form.
I currently have ten books and a novella published on Amazon - novels about a fat guy's love problems, a Sicilian girl's innocence, outcasts, dysfunctional families and what life was like when I was one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
www.amazon.co.uk/G.-L.-Sheridan/e/B00KB0YGI6/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1528190217&sr=1-2-ent
photo - Maria Dickinson
