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Prompt Generator. How To Write A Novel Using The Snowflake Method. Writing a novel is easy. Writing a good novel is hard. That’s just life. If it were easy, we’d all be writing best-selling, prize-winning fiction. Frankly, there are a thousand different people out there who can tell you how to write a novel. There are a thousand different methods. In this article, I’d like to share with you what works for me. This page is the most popular one on my web site, and gets over a thousand page views per day, so you can guess that a lot of people find it useful. Good fiction doesn’t just happen, it is designed.

For a number of years, I was a software architect designing large software projects. I claim that that’s how you design a novel — you start small, then build stuff up until it looks like a story. If you’re like most people, you spend a long time thinking about your novel before you ever start writing. But before you start writing, you need to get organized. Step 1) Take an hour and write a one-sentence summary of your novel. Shorter is better. Outline for Writing a Novel In 1 Year - Novel Writing Help.

I'll be honest: a better title for this article might have been "An Outline for Writing a Novel in Two Years" - or better still, three or four. As I have already said elsewhere, I really don't recommend trying to rush your writing. Rushing is unlikely to make your book a better one. And besides, why would you want to hurry something you enjoy? Having said that, I know when some people get their mind set on something they like to push on with it and get it done, and so this writing outline demonstrates how you can realistically complete a long work of fiction inside twelve months. Of course, it will still be useful to you if you set yourself a six-month or a two-year target - just halve or double all the quoted times.

And on the subject of quoted times, I'm assuming that a month is four weeks, giving you 48 weeks in total plus some holiday time. I'm also assuming you have a day job and don't have 40 hours a week to devote to writing novels. 1. That last one is important. 2. 3. 4. 5 Powerful Techniques to Help Your Posts Stand Out.

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