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Journey Of Writing My First Novel And Tips For Writing Your Own


Stephen King on writing: plan your book in advance, or not?

It's not that I feel the need to plan out every detail before I write, but I am scatterbrained so having a method to sort through and organize my thoughts is a ...

How to Plan a Novel in 11 Simple Steps - Learn Squibler

Embrace the writing journey by focusing on creating your first draft, allowing your story to evolve as you go. How to write a novel step by step? To write your ...

Do You Need Help Writing a Book? - Friendly Ghostwriter LLC

If you get a chance to review my blog, you'll see that I've written extensively about how to write an outline. That's because I feel it is a vital first step in ...

My First Novel Was a New York Times Bestseller. I'm Self-Publishing ...

Certainly, writing the best book possible should be your top priority. But being realistic about your writing, your career—and the very good ...

HOW TO WRITE A BOOK BASED ON YOUR LIFE - Nancy Peske

An autobiography or personal history. This type of personal project lets you tell your story to future generations. · A memoir. Memoirs are thematic and often ...

Writing: How To Turn Your Life Into A Novel

Do shorten the time frame of the story, it makes the plot more exciting. In real life events often occur slowly, and it's only when you look ...

How to Write a Book When You're Not a Good Writer

If you have dismissed the idea of writing a book because you think “I'm not a good writer”, here are seven tips to help you write the book anyway (And make it ...

Thoughts on Writing My First Novel | Doorway Between Worlds

It helped that I forced myself to set aside a weekly writing time. If I wasn't going to be able to write during the week because my eyes were ...

The First Rule of Novel-Writing is Don't Write a Novel - Literary Hub

You must know your characters, plot, story arc, etc.... you get the idea before sitting down to write. I don't know any of that. I don't know my ...

My Story - JKR - J. K. Rowling's Stories

From the start I knew there would be seven books and I had the whole story plotted out early on. It took me five years to write the first book in the series, ...

Lessons I Learned From Writing My Second Novel | Writers & Artists

1 - The second novel is hard · 2 - Don't overdo it · 3 -Don't rest on your laurels · 4 - This is the start of your journey not the end · 5 - ...

How to Write When Your Writing is Too Awful to Continue

If you want to become a great author that publishes fantastic book after fantastic book, you first have to write mediocre and even bad books to get there. · Just ...

Novel or Novella: Have You Set the Right Word Count for Your First ...

As a first time writer, it can be all too easy to shoot for the stars and create a long and complex story that ends up reaching well over 100,000 words. This ...

How to Write Your First Fiction Novel for Adults

I cold-emailed people and asked for introductions through professional connections. These writers went on to blurb my book, be my beta readers, ...

How to Write Your Fastest Story Ever - e.a. deverell

Plot formulas, such as The Hero's Journey, The Fool's Journey, or The One Page Novel, allow you discover pitfalls in your story early on, so that they don't ...

How to Plot A Book Using The Snowflake Method - Jericho Writers

When I wrote my first novel, I had no idea the project was hard. I didn't write a plot outline. I didn't sit down to plan my story.

Should You Write the Whole Book?

Classic wisdom for unpublished authors seeking traditional publication has been that if you're writing a novel (fiction), you need a complete ...

for writers — Jennifer Weiner

We've now arrived to the advice you might not want to hear. If you want to publish fiction in the traditional manner, the first thing you have to do is finish a ...

An Author's Technical Guide to Self-Publishing a Book - Dabble

Think back to where you are in your writing journey and where you want to be. If you're writing a book so you can hold it up proud and feel the ...

Writing advice: I've finally written my first novel. When I sent it to my ...

Dear Prudence,. I'm an aspiring writer, and I've almost completed a good draft of what would be my first novel. A major plot line involves ...


Odyssey

Poem by Homer https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTMSCjMYArqU6xXO20H9SbGFhKO_L9iyxgTar5WW4fdw7Imf_hp

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War.

Meditations

Book by Marcus Aurelius https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRG-qUOX-ZKa957QagPOl7y2nOfEt16NpVva0SYz0u5VnqPWU41

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.

The Tragedie of Macbeth

Play by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Macbeth, often shortened to Macbeth, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power.

Candide

Novel by Voltaire https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQE-rmmcD1mVwccM4fURfXZxWeM4wKv4lA3u-CGMJG9MI5EhPD

Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759.

The Sign of the Four

Novel by Arthur Conan Doyle https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZDuk0bzciuGyeLufxkkdOiMIvvRj9APl5-ykUY8QjMJo1dIqi

The Sign of the Four, also called The Sign of Four, is an 1890 detective novel, and it is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.

Dracula

Novel by Bram Stoker https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBNTsq8o2hPaG3QlndVAK7Z5a2rqX1JGqn1hSTsrk3b1mj6FyD

Dracula is a 1897 gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles.