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HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL
Getting Your Novel Started and Written
Novel Writing
By Kelly Land, © 2006-2008, All rights reserved.
Admit it....
You think you can write the next classic novel? Or at least a novel that could
be bought by a major studio, written into a screenplay, star your favorite movie
stars and you get to accept that Oscar for Best Screen Adaptation of a novel?
Oh and don't forget.....the book signings, adoring letters, your own chair on
the set of the movie, mingling with A-list stars and ....yes -- the MONEY.
Almost everyone I have talked to about this subject has thought about writing a
novel. It seems easy....but when faced with sitting down and doing it, it can
seem overwhelming and the ideas and characters disappear.
I've been there. Trust me. My degree is in Radio-TV-Film and I had BIG
aspirations at 24 to go to LA and become a gopher at a major studio. I was going
to start at the bottom, learn the ropes, make connections and all the while be
working on my own screenplay. Before I turned 30, I was going to be accepting MY
Oscar for Best Screenplay. But....alas...I fell in love, got married, had kids
and settled down. I became a local DJ on the radio -- and I have NO regrets.
I guess in the back of my mind...I still feel the possibility of writing that
screenplay. It takes my mind, a computer (or pen and paper) and time. What is
stopping me? What is stopping you?
We complain we have no time to exercise, let alone sit and write. But if we
really wanted to -- couldn't we? Or at least --couldn't we try?
For those of us with no real schematic training on how a novel is laid out,
character building and plot -- do we dare jump in and try? Are we so bold as to
butt into a profession that we have absolutely no practice or publications under
our belts?
I dunno? I say...YES. Why not? Whose to say you aren't the next John Grisham or
Stephen King? Not me. Look at J K Rowling....her Harry Potter series is a
smashing hit. Have you read how she started that series? Where she was living
and her life at the time she began it all? She begin writing it at a cafe
while her daughter napped. She was divorced and living on public assistance.
We have no excuse for not writing that book in our head and our heart. It's
waiting, patiently to escape the confines of a one person audience and wow
thousands more. And even if we're never accepting that Oscar, or rubbing elbows
with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Aniston -- we CAN say that we've written a novel.
That's worth a lot in my (unwritten) book!
Tools to help us get started:
I found this to be the most helpful and insightful tool on getting me motivated
and started. You could not ask for a better mentor. Well worth looking into if
you are really serious about getting started, or even if you've already written
something, but haven't gotten it published.
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