Sitting on an idea for a bestselling novel, but not sure how to get the words out? Award-winning author elizabday tells us how to make your novel idea a reality – from getting to know your characters to the best way to banish writer’s block
” as the catalyst for getting started. Of course, that’s easier said than done – but the good news is she’s givenFor her, novel writing at its core is all about “helping you and your readers understand the
, and see it in a new way”. Here’s how to achieve this, and more, when you sit down to write your book.Elizabeth stresses that planning can be more intimidating than it needs to be, especially if you try to be really specific about where you’re going with every single chapter, character and plotline. “It can feel like doing atimetable, so you put off the act of revising,” she says.
If it feels like your plot is becoming too complicated for you to keep track of while you write, or you’ve written the first draft and want to tighten things up, Elizabeth suggests trying something visual to keep track of things. “When I was writing my fourth novel,, I plotted the story chapter by chapter on a big roll of brown paper,” she says. “I had a grid for each chapter, and I colour coded what was happening to each character. Seeing what was happening visually was really helpful.
You could even create a mood board for your novel, she says, to explore how you’d like your characters and settings to look.When it comes to getting started, Elizabeth says it doesn’t matter so much what you write, more that you are committing toitself and seeing what comes out. “When you write anything, there’s something of a natural, physical unblocking that happens,” she says. In the beginning, the words you write “don’t even need to make any sense.
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