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A Beginner's Guide to Writing a Novel |
by:
Rachelle Arlin Credo |
No one is born a novel writer. But do you believe that we all have the capability to be writers? Impossible as it may seem however the answer is yes! If we have the passion for it also if we strive to make it happen, novelwriting can be as easy as writing ABC. Writing is actually not a very complicated thing. It is just like drawing, painting, also even cooking. It is an art! Your imagination is all that it takes to get it started. What makes it hard is not writing itself however how people make it hard than it really is.
The first key to writing a novel is the ability to dream also imagine. Think back to when you were a little child also dreamed. Your imagination took you to places you've never been before. It made you do things you never thought you could do. Having superpowers...being in strange places...the conditions are limitless. Writing a novel is actually imagination translated into words. You close your eyes also let your thoughts drift while creating a web of consequential ideas. Afterwhich, you write them down on paper.
The second key to writing is formulating the premise of your novel. Let's say you'd start with a huge asteroid moving about in space. Then suddenly it collided with another asteroid also instantly created an explosion. Some of the explosion's debris fell down into the earth's atmosphere. By accident a person comes in contact with it. These sequence of events could be your initial start in which you let your mind take hold of also run with to produce the succeeding events.
The third key would be creating a stream of spontaneous ideas. Once you have the initial idea, sink down into it also allow yourself to be completely absorbed. Let's say after the person comes in contact with the asteroid debris, he gains supernatural powers! And then he notices some new changes in his being, not just physically however or else emotionally also psychologically. This is where an avalanche of new ideas start coming in. You will notice that you are no longer directing your story however your story is directing you. That makes writing now so easy. You don't need to analyze anything because the story now starts to play like a movie. All you have to do is put them into words as the story plays in your head.
Next, make sure you are able to retain your daydreaming also concentration as one event goes after another. This state is now called the "alpha state". According to Judith Tramayne-Barth, this is the place between consciousness also sleep. Time stands still when you are in this state. Words keep coming to you until you start to feel pain in your legs also in your waist also then you suddenly flick consciousness also you become flabbergasted because you've not only written one or two pages however five or more without even knowing it!
The next key would be to practice flipping in also out of the "alpha state". You can do this by rereading what you've written also internalizing it as if it was your first time. It might take you time, as much as hours or even days before you are able to go to your "alpha state" again however once you're adept at going into the zone, it would only be a matter of minutes before you start writing a new dialogue.
So, you've finished your story! Now it's time to do the final touch-ups. There is still one last thing that you need to do. Yea, you guessed it. You need to check the entire story again for spelling, punctuations, grammar, correct word usage also coherence. You might even need to revise it a few times before you are able to arrive with the final output. But don't fret, it's not much work really compared to writing the entire novel. What's important is you now have your own novel, written by yourself, using your very own imagination. How much more proud could you get?
About the author:
Rachelle Arlin Credo is an entrepreneur also relationship coach. She or else works as an image consultant also part-time writer. Her stories, articles, essays also poetry have been published in various magazines also online publications.
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