Tuesday, January 5, 2016

How To Write A Book For Dummies

By David Gray


Writers would somehow agree that the most difficult part in creating a novel would be to start it because once the flow of the story is there, then things would just come out naturally. Of course if one would want to start with his novel, then he will first need an outline. For those who want to create this kind of material, here are good tips on how to write a book.

Now when one has the idea in his mind already, all he has to do would be to create the story flow. In order to do this, he has to first create the setting which would consist of the place of his story as well as the timeline. Another thing that he would have to make would be the major and minor characters which would include the protagonist, antagonist, supporting characters, and extras.

Now when one has already finished this, then he may move on to create the flow of his story by making use of an outline that will help him have proper coherence. Now the traditional flow of events would actually be of course the intro of the main characters, then the build up of this story, then the big climax wherein a twist would usually happen which would be followed by the conclusion. With this model, one can make an outline first and just fill up the details after.

Now in the first chapter, the author would usually be introducing the characters and describing the place that the characters are staying in. This is basically giving the readers an overview of the life of the protagonist. This is done so that the readers can get to know the hero more and see what his background is.

After the hero has already been introduced fully, then the next thing that the author would most likely do would be to introduce the villain of the story. Now when this happens, the author is already reaching the build up stage because a conflict between the two is already forming. This conflict is going to be the main thing that the hero is going to fight for.

As the story builds up momentum, it will reach the climax part wherein the hero is doing something to create the resolution. This is usually the most exciting part because it is the part where the hero would be battling the main antagonist in the story. This is the part that the build up would lead to.

Now in this stage, there would usually be a twist. For those who do not know what the twist is, the twist is an unexpected turn of events that happened to the hero. There are times that the twist would come before the climax but traditionally, it would come after.

The final part is the conclusion or the resolution part. In this stage, the hero has already resolved the conflict that he was trying to fix. Then it will be the choice.of the author to give the hero a happy ending or a bad one.




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