The Prewriting Stage: What to do BEFORE starting a novel
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- How do you set yourself up for a successful writing process? These are all simple things you can do before you start writing your book, in order to have the smoothest, easiest writing process possible!
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A number of authors write maps of their plots, but they don't necessarily stay on course. Like a vacation, many writers take detours to make their stories more interesting and unpredictable.
Thank you for this brilliant tip on how to use Reedsy Editor. More of this, please.
I find that mind mapping helps as well
These are very useful tips and will sustain many a discouraged writer.
Brigid Brophy said that writers, unlike painters and musicians, tend towards depression.
Hemingway said the reader gets all the fun and the writer gets all the grief; he called this the Writer's Reward.
Keeping a Journal on the side could ease the long journey of novel writing. Journals are tactile, and open portals into happy worlds.
*Inventor's Delight Concertina Journal.*
*Dark Alice, another adventure into the Wonderland of junk journal.*
*Let's look through this chonker of a journal (art journal flip through).*
All on CZcams. Your Journal, illustrated with cut-outs & drawings, could shadow your novel, and feed it from underground springs.
Great video. Thanks for the tips
Before setting out to write, always decide on how you want the book to affect your thought process afterwards: would you find satisfaction just knowing you wrote the book? Would you derive any sort of status from it? Would you deem your work a success whether or not it earns any income? ---et cetera ...
I have full length work written on paper. Then I move it to computer. Time consuming but that's what works for me
*Gertrude Stein, listening to her beloved white poodle, Basket, drinking water from her bowl, said :
*Paragraphs are emotional and sentences are not.' *
Quoted in Joe Moran's book *First You Write A Sentence* (2018).
Mr Moran thinks a dog drinking does so with a certain rhythm. So too the emotional effect of paragraphs !
It all depends what type of novel you're writing. Not all novels have to be planned. Ruth Rendell was notoriously character driven -- when she started a book 80% of the time she didnt know how it would end. Same with PD James.
Yup some stories seem to write themselves but is good to know what you think is going to happen beforehand 🤔
I think you're a little confused. Pre-writing isn't outlining. It includes character planning stuff too.
@@user-gw1ky2dy6s The story knows, or so I have heard it said.