Finding Your Story As a Writer
One of the biggest challenges facing aspiring writers is the question of what to write.
Many of these writers have the talent to write a compelling story, as well as the motivation.
However, in their desire to write a novel, these writers often find that they don't know what to write a novel about.
Here's some helpful tips to get your novel written.
The most important step to finding your story and writing your novel is writing regularly.
By doing free writes on a daily basis and writing about anything and everything, you get your mind into the proper mindset to write a novel.
By practicing every day, you get yourself to think about what you want to write about and might stumble upon the premise of your story.
The idea here is that, by throwing enough logs into the fire, one of them is likely to catch.
The next direction to take in order to help generate writing ideas, is to think of situations.
Rather than concoct an entire novel idea in one sitting, try and think of different problems that people may face.
Generating your novel can come from asking yourself questions about this situation.
How did the character get in this position? What would they do to get out of it? How will other people respond to this situation? Asking these questions will help you to mold a character, and once you have a character, you're only a step away from having a novel.
Another great way to help yourself produce more work is by working with other people.
By talking to other people about writing and ideas for writing, you will be able to combine your ideas with their own.
Two heads are better than one, and by tapping into joint creativity, you'll be able to witness ideas that might have otherwise never crossed your mind.
Consider your work together as a brainstorming session and embrace the ideas that come from it.
Lastly, reading published works is a great source of inspiration.
These books show you what's already been done, and what has been well received by the general public.
Sure you can't use other people's ideas, but maybe in reading these stories, you will be frustrated that the author didn't take their book in a different direction or didn't use their character as effectively as they could have.
These thoughts make the perfect stew for galvanizing your own motivation and getting you to write the book that you were hoping to see someone else write.
Overall, generating story ideas can be one of the hardest parts in being a writer.
A novel is a tremendous work, clocking in between forty and eighty thousand words.
Having the talent to write that many words isn't enough oftentimes and so, you must put in the effort to think of the ideas that will help you develop a story that's worth telling in such great lengths.
While these tips may help you along the way, unfortunately, a lot of creativity comes from having the right thought at the right moment, an event that's hard to plan in advance.
Many of these writers have the talent to write a compelling story, as well as the motivation.
However, in their desire to write a novel, these writers often find that they don't know what to write a novel about.
Here's some helpful tips to get your novel written.
The most important step to finding your story and writing your novel is writing regularly.
By doing free writes on a daily basis and writing about anything and everything, you get your mind into the proper mindset to write a novel.
By practicing every day, you get yourself to think about what you want to write about and might stumble upon the premise of your story.
The idea here is that, by throwing enough logs into the fire, one of them is likely to catch.
The next direction to take in order to help generate writing ideas, is to think of situations.
Rather than concoct an entire novel idea in one sitting, try and think of different problems that people may face.
Generating your novel can come from asking yourself questions about this situation.
How did the character get in this position? What would they do to get out of it? How will other people respond to this situation? Asking these questions will help you to mold a character, and once you have a character, you're only a step away from having a novel.
Another great way to help yourself produce more work is by working with other people.
By talking to other people about writing and ideas for writing, you will be able to combine your ideas with their own.
Two heads are better than one, and by tapping into joint creativity, you'll be able to witness ideas that might have otherwise never crossed your mind.
Consider your work together as a brainstorming session and embrace the ideas that come from it.
Lastly, reading published works is a great source of inspiration.
These books show you what's already been done, and what has been well received by the general public.
Sure you can't use other people's ideas, but maybe in reading these stories, you will be frustrated that the author didn't take their book in a different direction or didn't use their character as effectively as they could have.
These thoughts make the perfect stew for galvanizing your own motivation and getting you to write the book that you were hoping to see someone else write.
Overall, generating story ideas can be one of the hardest parts in being a writer.
A novel is a tremendous work, clocking in between forty and eighty thousand words.
Having the talent to write that many words isn't enough oftentimes and so, you must put in the effort to think of the ideas that will help you develop a story that's worth telling in such great lengths.
While these tips may help you along the way, unfortunately, a lot of creativity comes from having the right thought at the right moment, an event that's hard to plan in advance.
