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How to write a best selling novel
Here
are three rules for writing the novel.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874 - 1965)
Well, if we had the exact formula it would be
simply priceless! However, what is generally
accepted is that there are some basic elements
that every novel should possess. And whilst
every writer will have their own way of going
about things, there are some essential
activities that all successful writers refer to
again and again and again. (NB: our novel
writing software can help guide you along with
all of the following points)
So to start off the debate on how to write a
best selling novel, the primary step is quite a
simple one – note taking. The key to driving a
best-selling novel will be the quality,
lucidity, and quantity of your ideas. Unless you
are gifted with a photographic memory and an
endless supply of new ideas, you will be stuck
with the rest of us humans – who have flashes of
inspiration interspersed with prolonged periods
of angst. And also, the ideas that we have can
never all be captured in a single story, and the
characters that we dream up will need to have
different worlds created for them in books you
might start working on in 3 years time. Once you
have the notes taken, you can build on them –
layering detail as it occurs to you. If you use
a software program created specifically for
writing novels - such as NewNovelist – you can
do all of this, secure in the knowledge that
there is an order to them, that they are
instantly retrievable, and you can use them
immediately in your writing.
With these basic notes laid down as a
foundation, you can move on to weaving them
together into a novel that could one day be the
next New York Times Bestseller. You’ve created
an amazingly powerful character, who will play
an important role in a plot turn. But where
exactly will this occur? If you don’t know the
answer yet it doesn’t matter, because with
NewNovelist software for writing you can move
everything around with a click of the mouse.
Move story points around and modify characters
until it all reads as you would like it. Using a
novel writing program is a far faster option
than retyping everything, the time that it saves
you can be spent on one of the most important
steps in how to write a best selling novel –
thinking.
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Creative writing and learning how to write a novel can be
exceptionally hard. First, you have to learn the basics, then
you have to practice….and practice…and practice. And you also
have to research what makes a successful novel. The vast
majority of novels adopt a basic formula, and we incorporate
these within NewNovelist.
Whilst throughout these additional information pages we have
provided tips and “how-to” advice, the real gold dust is in our
software program (available on CD or to download). It is based
on tuition from the leading university Creative Writing course
in England (University of East Anglia), and uses templates to
provide you with the structure you might otherwise spend years
researching. These templates can teach you the basics to writing
all different types of novel: crime, mystery, detective,
fantasy, childrens, thrillers, military and many many more. In
short, it provides you with a virtual tutor.
In addition to the template structure, there is context
sensitive help available – advising you on timing, tone and beat
– and scores of examples drawn from modern and classical
literature. For beginners this will be a revelation. For more
experienced writers it provides a welcome refresher.
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someone as a gift. If you decide to use this option, you
can print out a gift token to give them personally or
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Whatever your standard of writing, and whatever your motivation,
if you want an all-in-one writing course, advice, tutor, editor
and note taker you should buy NewNovelist today.
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