How to Write a Novel for Beginners | Writing a novel is not as difficult as we imagine before. What makes it difficult is our own negative mind and how to get started. Beginners are usually afraid of the failures before they started doing this work.
So, how do we start this now | First thing that you must now that writing a novel is a journey, you must make sure you have a lot of resources (time, imagination, etc...) And the second is dare to start and persistent, these two things are your main tools before start to write a novel project.
5 Things Before Write A Novel
You have lots of ideas but confused where do I start the story. To make it simple I will share tips before write a novel, these tips is based on my experience so let's have take a look now :
1. Choose Main Genre
This is the first step that every writers do before they started the project, pick your most liked genre, it will help you to build the platform of your story later on. You can combine the genre you pick before too, such as sci-fi combine with action or adventure aspect, or Drama with horror aspect when the story goes on.
2. Create Storyline
Creating a storyline is important too, it's just like a compass, keep you focus on the track. To make it easier, create the outline first for each chapter then start to determined action per action in you chapter scene.
3. Set Up The Conflict and Climax of The Story
Climax is a set up scene from many conflict before. When the storyline has been created, you can see the plot of the conflict, gather this plot little by little to set up the climax moment. You can put the climax on the mid-side or at the end of the story you write.
*Example :
Main story idea : About school life dynamic when facing a final test
Conflict : Lack of study resources, poor condition, no room for study, etc...
Climax : Pass the exam, or failed
Write down clearly too about the climax, how your character pass the exam, or why your character didn't pass the test. Try to make it all look reasonable
4. Realistic Character
Many writer build their main character too perfect, they describe the character as good as possible. It's ok to write a charcter white and black clearly but, don't forget about the human aspect, such as weaknesses, ego, emotion, etc.
*Example :
"Jon is a good and famous student, but he is an opportunist too, he always cheat in every test. That's why he can get the first rank on the class."
* Example II :
Main Character : A swordman who are swordmaster too
Main Character Strength : Courage, brave, loyal, humble
Weaknesses : egoistic, clumsy, stubborn
By putting your main character in dilemma situation you can build up the emotion of the reader, make a short note about your main character first, explore strength and the weaknesses, try to combine with the story plot, and must be blend with the storyline of course.
5. Set The Place and Background
Set the background that are matches with your genre, it will help you to describe the whole story. You can start to describe the place on the opening side, or even when the story goes on progress. To make things look easier, start with the main place / background, and the supporting place / background
*Example :
Main Idea : School life drama
Main place : High school
Supporting place : main character house, friend house, cafe, mall, pub, etc...
Ok guys that's the first aspects how to write a novel for the beginners, now I want to share more specific about writing a novel.
Ok guys that's the first aspects how to write a novel for the beginners, now I want to share more specific about writing a novel.
Step By Step How to Write Novel
1. Good Prologue
A prologue gives early storyline about your story, so the readers can understand about the flows of your story. If in this stage you can't make people interesting, don't expect them to continue read your story. So, the good prologue is a must, it's the important part indeed.
You must make sure your prologue has these element :
- Progression (show the storyline progress little by little)
- Curiosity (A short twist element can pump up people emotion)
- Flowing (all of your words must flow with the storyline)
Help the reader to understand for your character, visualize and feel the emotion. Describe the character voice, action, emotion things, behavior. But, keep remind on your mind, when describing the character don't get to overrated, and don't describe in one dialogue or one plot, keep the progression flows.
*Example
Main Character : Student High school
Development path : Unpopular student---->Popular student
Progression path : Struggling in school life, accept the situation, study hard, etc...
3. Point Of View (POV)
Choose the best perspective in your story, you can choose first person or third person. If your story is a whole big world such as fantasy world, third person POV is the best for you, because you need describe many aspect of your story. If your world not so big, first person POV is good to choose, it give personal perspective for the people who read your story
4. Meaningful Dialogue
People get bored when they must read a long dialogue without nothing to show. Write the dialogue that has a purpose, connected to your next plot. Don't waste a time write a chit-chat dialogue just to show the characte, the dialogue must be meaningful or the readers will get bored for sure.
5. Setting the Plot Story
If we talk about plot, we talk about the foundation of the novel itself. Surely seing beautiful plot is like seeing the whole system. Sometimes a complicated plot makes the plot looks dizzy. Especially when the plot shown the time shifting so quick. My advice: just try slow build up plot focus on the character development and try to connected with your main story.
6. Choose the best Ending
Writing ending story is much hard as the opening. Think deeply before you write the ending, because it's the conclusion about your whole story, you must makes everything looks logic and acceptable. Here's some tips to write ending novel :
- Good Ending (you ended up with joyful moment for your main character)
- Bad Ending ( Mostly it's a tragic part, main character died, or the villain beat the hero, etc)
- Twist Ending (It use to be for the series novel book, things that not been solved yet on the whole story before)
Beginner Writer Tips To Become Better
2.Write Everyday (push yourself to write, articles, diary, short story,etc...)
3. Note your idea
4. Use Simple Words
5. Mix short and long paragraphs (avoid long paragraphs to much)
6. Detail is a must (emotion character, voice, feeling, moment, etc..)
4. Use Simple Words
5. Mix short and long paragraphs (avoid long paragraphs to much)
6. Detail is a must (emotion character, voice, feeling, moment, etc..)
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