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A: How to organize ideas to start writing a novel? Starting from a blank page is always hard, so don’t beat yourself up. But there are tools that will help you get started: The first I would recommend is Scapple by Literature and Latte. Scapple is a virtual corkboard where you can store ideas before you start writing. I start with photographs of my... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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A: If I wouldn't want to read the story, is writing it still a good idea? Why to abandon an idea In considering the question of whether or not you should write an idea you don’t like, my instinct would be no. If you don’t like it, it will show in the writing. If you are bored writing it, you can guarantee that your reader will be bored reading it. How excited you are by a... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: When do you stop "pushing" a book? Converting comments to an answer as suggested by @wetcircuit WHY BOOKS SUCCEED I was in the same place with my first novel. Many writers assume that the doors aren't open to them or there's some magical query that will open them. Remember: books are picked up based on how marketable they are, not h... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: What matters more when it comes to book covers? Is it ‘professional quality’ or relevancy? It depends. Using Amazon's book store as an example: If your book is in an Amazon category that has very few books and the reader finds a poorly-done homemade cover that speaks to what they are interested in, they may click on it simply because there aren't many others to choose from. However, if ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Is it true that a great cover is enough to sell many copies of your book I'm not sure it's the ebook buyers who are the silly ones here. Of course people judge a book by its cover, as they should. To navigate the thousands or millions of books on a real or virtual shelf, a reader needs a guide. A good cover will convey genre and hint at the story inside. It sets an expec... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: What benefits might there be to membership in a Writer's Guild? Along with depending on the guild itself and what membership benefits it offers, it also depends very much on you and which (if any) of those benefits you feel you'd truly make use of. I have belonged to the SOA and to a local writers' society. At first, it seemed like it was worth the price tag: I ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Plain language with long required phrases It's possible you're tying yourself in knots with Hemingway which is, perhaps, better for prose writers than technical writers. Hemingway themselves state: > But what if I want to break the rules? > > Rules are meant to be broken. If you know what you're doing, don't let us stop you. View our sugg... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Relationship Problems I suggest breaking the story into smaller scenes which you approach individually one at a time. Make each scene a connection between the characters that grows slowly over time, each scene bringing them that little bit closer. Perhaps, at first, they are invited to the same party but refuse to speak ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Help/tips for a first time writer? Starting from a blank page is always hard. > Read Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg. It's an excellent book to get you writing. Writing, you will find, is like any art. Like learning the piano, or learning ballet. If you drown yourself in the technicalities, you will soon become overwhelm... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Tiptoe or tiphoof? Adjusting words to better fit fantasy races I think Secespitus hits the nail on the head by saying: > People will rarely look at the letter of a word means. They know what "tiptoeing" implies and that is all they need to imagine the scene. Imagine being the key word. IMHO, immersion is far more crucial in a story than correctness. The true j... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Casually inserting sexual orientation If I'm reading correctly, the crux of your issue is this: > Eris is a girl, she forms a romantic attachment to a boy, the reader assumes she's straight. Later, when she forms a romantic attachment to a girl, the reader may have problems believing it. If you were to set the issue of sexuality comple... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Naming Characters after Friends/Family I drafted a book two years ago that I'm now polishing to publish. When I drafted it, for speed's sake, I named one of my primary characters after an old school friend who I'm still in contact with on Facebook. The character's personality isn't him (though he does look a lot like him), I've just used ... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Creating and keeping track of characters I use Scapple by Literature and Latte, the makers of Scrivener. It's basically a storyboarding tool, much like you have created on your wall, only you can't run out of wall space or damage your walls! The way I use Scapple to develop my characters is roughly through the following process: Each cha... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: Alternatives to starting a sentence with well I'd recommend visiting your local cafe with a notebook. Sit and listen to the people around you and see how they talk. You'll find that people often speak in fairly clipped sentences, they don't spell everything out. It'll really help you learn natural dialogue. I also watched every episode of Gilmo... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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What techniques do you use to maintain your writing focus and maximise your productivity? How do you keep writing no matter what’s going on around you? How do you avoid the distractions of social media, that dishwasher that needs unloading, that wash that needs putting on, that cup of tea you’re dying to take a break for? How do you force yourself to write, even when it’s hard, keeping... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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A: Is it considered lazy writing to have a dry prelude at the start of a book? The thing about the Star Wars crawl sequences is they’re very short, less than 100 words. They work because they’re short, interesting and presented in a novel way (back then). They’re also necessary to provide context to the opening scene of action that follows. I would ask yourself the same questi... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |