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Title: How to be a novel writer


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  • 1. Finalize a winning story idea
  • It must captivate you so thoroughly you cant get
    it out of your head. Only this kind of idea will
    pull you to the keyboard every day and inspire
    you to write the novel youve always dreamed of
    and finally zeroed in.

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  • 2. Are you an Outliner or a Pantser
  • There are novel writers who map out broad lines
    beforehand also known as outliners. And then
    there are pantsers, who start with an idea and
    see how it unravels. Often a writer is the hybrid
    of the two. Regardless, some form of structure is
    needed to keep oneself from burning out after few
    pages.

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  • 3. Create an incredible main character
  • The characters need to be enlivened and
    understood before putting them onto the paper.
    Your most important character is your
    protagonist, also known as your lead. The main
    character must have a character arc. In other
    words be a different, better-evolved person by
    the resolution in the end.

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  • 4. Expand your plot
  • A plot is a place where things happen. Plot
    provides a structure to the whole process. It is
    the place where characters get evolved. It keeps
    the writer closer to the core idea or theme of
    his story. So, plot points need to be defined
    beforehand in order to proceed ahead in the line
    of what exactly you want to say.

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  • 5. Research
  • Even fiction/fantasies must make sense. Though
    fiction, by the very definition, is made up but
    to succeed it must be believable. It should be
    reasonable. So, a proper research process indeed
    is needed to detail out the various plot
    elements. The characters need to evolve in a
    believable frame. Of course, it is fiction and
    has to be made of still proper research is
    paramount for it to be a relevant tale.

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  • 6. Your Voice and Point of View
  • A writers Point of View (POV) is more than
    simply deciding what voice to use First Person
    (I, me), Second Person (you, youre), or Third
    Person (he, she or it). It is also deciding who
    will your POV character be. Ideally, there should
    be one character per chapter or even per novel
    for the perspectives to unravel. Most novel
    writer write in third-person narratives.

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  • 7. Start where the action is
  • You must captivate the reader right from page
    one. The goal of every sentence, in fact of every
    word, should be to force the reader to read the
    next. The beginning should be about the guts of
    the story and what it really wants to convey.

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  • 8. Engage the readers mind
  • The images our minds eye generates are far more
    imaginative and dramatic than anything cinema can
    produce. Your job as a writer is to trigger the
    theaters of readers minds. You have to engage
    their mental projectors. And thats where the
    magic happens.

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  • 9. Intensify the main characters journey
  • Conflict is the engine that drives fiction. The
    main protagonists journey is to be mired in
    terrible troubles one after the other. Now,
    everything he does to get out of that mess must
    make it progressively worse. His trouble should
    escalate sequentially because of his attempts to
    fix it.

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  • 10. Let the predicament be hopeless
  • The more hopeless the situation, the more
    powerful your climax and resolution will be. The
    Bleakest Moment forces your hero to take the
    action. He uses every new muscle and technique
    gained from facing a lot of obstacles and proves
    that things only appeared beyond repair.

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  • 11. Build it all up to a climax
  • The conflict that has been building throughout
    now diatribes to a final, ultimate confrontation,
    and all the major setups are paid off. The final
    resolution, the peak emotional point of your
    story, comes when your hero faces his ultimate
    test. The stakes must be high and failure
    irreversible.

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  • 12. Leave readers wholly mesmerized
  • The ending should tie up loose ends but it also
    needs to pack an emotional punch. The ending
    wont be as dramatic as the climax, but it should
    every bit be as provocative and riveting. A great
    ending is worth the readers investment of time
    and money.

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Here are a few hacks to start Novel Writing And
Write Like A Professional Novel Writer.

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