![]() Revising what you have written can be a deeply gratifying process and is a crucial step as you finish writing a novel. My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel – it is, before all, to make you see. My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it. ![]() – Ray Bradburyįor me, writing is exploration and most of the time, I’m surprised where the journey takes me. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Johann Wolfgang von GoetheĮverything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good. This is where a disciplined writing routine will help you to begin fleshing out your idea: So you have a novel idea that inspires you and you’ve planned to the point that you feel empowered to start writing. – Orhan PamukĪ goal without a plan is just a wish. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot. Of course, you can’t hold – you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it there are limits to human memory and imagination. I’m a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. – Agatha Christieīy failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes. The scariest moment is always just before you start. This is an enormous relief, and you can sit there searching for the point at which the story becomes a toboggan and starts to slide. You don’t actually have to write anything until you’ve thought it out. The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters’ theses. ![]() Even so, being methodical and planning the outline of your novel before you write the first draft could get you out of spots where you feel stuck:įirst, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him! – Ray Bradbury Writing by the seat of your pants (or ‘pantsing’) is something that many writers do. My standard answer is ‘I don’t know where they come from, but I know where they come to, they come to my desk.’ If I’m not there, they go away again, so you’ve got to sit and think. All of us writers rewrite these same stories adīooks choose their authors the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. – William Faulknerīorges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. If a story is in you, it has to come out. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. ![]() He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results. He has no clear idea of his story in fact he has no story. – Aldous HuxleyĪ man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations. If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story. At least in my experience, it doesn’t work that way. I don’t believe that a writer ‘gets’ (takes into the head) an ‘idea’ (some sort of mental object) ‘from’ somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ![]()
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