When you're writing a novel, you're not putting words to paper. You're building a world and even a fictional world has to be believable. Here's 5 writing, revising and editing tips to spice up your novel into a page turner.
Is your novel lacking some flavor? Is it stale due to lack of engagement? Or worse, does your writing feel two dimensional? One dimensional?
When you're writing a novel, you're not putting words to paper. You're building a world and even a fictional world has to be believable. Here's 5 writing, revising and editing tips to spice up your novel into a page turner.
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Writers write because we want to share something important to the world. It could be an idea based on our experiences and provide answers to help others who shared a similar fate. Or to allow people to enter a different world from what they've known to live inside a universe of paper and glue. Those are the makings of a good book and as a reader it can't get any better than that. It's funny how magical the written word can be. How with just one sentence or one paragraph and we're taken into a place so foreign and alien to what we know. How regardless of genre, new ideologies had formed to challenge our already preconceived notions. Is your novel a romance, thriller/mystery, young adult, non-fiction, etc? Are you having trouble plotting what happens to your character? Well, there’s no real reason to think too hard about that.
Before you started writing or thought of writing a novel, you probably read a lot of books. Basically writers are people who like to read and thought I could write something better or I have a story I want to write too. Correspondingly, all of a writer’s prior reading becomes an ability ingrained into us from hours spent devouring worlds of other writers. Not even the lark’s song can stop us from turning the next page. Credit for this image goes to GraphicStock. An idea for a story has taken over your mind and soul story needs a backstory, something that serves as clues, guide posts so to speak, to the nature of our characters. To explain why they do the things they do, and to ensure that their actions are consistent with their personality. The same thing can be applied to the setting, the environment they live in because even towns/cities/villages/counties have their own personalities which can also clash with or support the character(s) own personality.
Today is a double post. I'm looking for reviews, blurbs and endorsements for my poetry chapbook Can You Catch My Flow? If you're interested, please sign the form below and I'll email you an ARC (advance reader copy.) Are you stuck in a writing scene or feel that somehow it’s gone stale? And no matter how much you write there’s still no progress? That you’ve hit a writing wall and can’t get past it?
Here’s a way to get yourself unstuck and it’s a trick I’ve just recently discovered. To blast a hole through that writing wall, you must first ignore it. Take a writing break from your project and focus on another writing piece, which I like to call a ‘writing breather.’ Taking a writing breather will breathe new life to your words and your storytelling. And the best way to do that is by doing a visual writing prompt. |
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