Thursday, January 7, 2016

How To Write A Book In A Few Steps

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.

Once one has already done this, then he has to create an outline for his story so that he may be able to have coherence and flow as he writes. First of all, he has to take note of the traditional flow of stories which would consist of the introduction, the climbing, the climax, the twist, and then the conclusion. With this flow in mind, one can make the outline following this traditional flow and then filling in the details later on as he goes.

Now the first thing to write would be the introduction which is found usually in chapter one. Now in chapter one, the reader will be knowing more characters more especially the protagonist or the hero. The writer will also be writing about the time and place so that the readers can picture in their heads how things are going.

Now after the protagonist and some of the other characters have been introduced, then the antagonist will most likely be introduced next. In this stage, the author has already reached the climbing stage which would consist of a conflict that the protagonist has to resolve. The antagonist, of course, is trying to stop the protagonist from doing so.

Now as the story goes along many events will happen but the most exciting and interesting one is of course the climax. This is the part that would lead to the resolution of the story or in other words the big battle between hero and enemy. This will be the deciding factor as to what the conclusion would be.

Of course no story would be complete without a little twist that happens in the middle of the climax or somewhere after. Now for those that do not know what a twist is, it is basically a surprise in the story. It usually occurs somewhere near the climax but may actually occur somewhere before it.

Last would be the resolution wherein the hero has already resolved the conflict. Now the author can choose to create either a happy ending or a bad ending here. It does not really matter as long as the hero has already resolved the conflict that he was battling during the earlier parts of the story.




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