How will you write your first novel?

• First, you need a one story glider.
• Second, you need to start with a story that moves you both painfully and joyfully.
• Third, you must learn to write while you write.
• Fourth: Read every book you can get your hands on that has to do with how to write.

Buy Strunk and White, elements of style. The best small investment you will ever make.

• Write every day and throw the words on the screen or on the paper no matter if you write or write correctly.
• let it flow…
• Let it go!
• Later, go back and fill in the blanks, clean them up, and organize the thoughts and bits into scenes.
• Learn what a hook is. Work very hard to put it in exactly the right place in your story.
• Work hard on the first prize, but write your story. Don’t let the first paragraph consume you. Keep going back to the front line until you get goosebumps.
• Decide on your actions.
• You will need a problem for the hero to solve.
• You will need a barrier that will get in the way.
• You will need an epiphany for the solution.
• Then the fight against the antagonist, the villain or the barrier.
• To victory To the final act you go with your hero.
• Write the conclusion.

simple huh?

Lessons and tips:

• write every day
• Join a writers group
• Critique groups also help. they can be formed through your group of writers. Word of caution. The wrong chemistry within a critical group can be disastrous.

Means:

• Strunk and White, style element
• Stephen King’s – On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – ISBN 0671024256
• Dialogue by Gloria Kempton
• Learn how to write a proper query letter
• Good luck