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Q&A How to organize ideas to start writing a novel?

You start by starting. There is no other way. As to how to organize it, I like JK Rowling's approach. She broke her series down into 7 books (1 for each year at the magic school). She mappe...

posted 4y ago by dolphin_of_france‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar dolphin_of_france‭ · 2019-12-08T12:45:51Z (over 4 years ago)
You start by starting. There is no other way.

As to how to organize it, I like JK Rowling's approach.

1. She broke her series down into 7 books (1 for each year at the magic school). 

2. She mapped out general story arcs for her characters. 

3. She then wrote a lot of scenes as they came to her

4. Finally she stitched them together to form chapters. 

(I read this process from an interview with her)..

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-08-20T15:02:22Z (over 4 years ago)
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