Thursday, January 14, 2016

How To Write A Book

By David Gray


Writing a novel is something that is quite difficult to do but extremely fulfilling especially if one has a good story in mind. Now usually, the most difficult part for any writer would be starting the story because his flow is not yet there. So for those who are not experts in writing yet, here are some tips on how to write a book.

Now when one has the idea in his mind already, all he has to do would be to create the story flow. In order to do this, he has to first create the setting which would consist of the place of his story as well as the timeline. Another thing that he would have to make would be the major and minor characters which would include the protagonist, antagonist, supporting characters, and extras.

Now when one has already finished this, then he may move on to create the flow of his story by making use of an outline that will help him have proper coherence. Now the traditional flow of events would actually be of course the intro of the main characters, then the build up of this story, then the big climax wherein a twist would usually happen which would be followed by the conclusion. With this model, one can make an outline first and just fill up the details after.

So first off would be the introduction which usually can be found in the first chapter. Now in the first chapter, the author will be introducing the protagonist and will be talking about the setting. The introduction part is all about letting the reader visualize the place and time of the story so that he will be enticed to continue reading the story.

Now after the protagonist and some of the other characters have been introduced, then the antagonist will most likely be introduced next. In this stage, the author has already reached the climbing stage which would consist of a conflict that the protagonist has to resolve. The antagonist, of course, is trying to stop the protagonist from doing so.

As the story builds up momentum, it will reach the climax part wherein the hero is doing something to create the resolution. This is usually the most exciting part because it is the part where the hero would be battling the main antagonist in the story. This is the part that the build up would lead to.

Now in this stage, there would usually be a twist. For those who do not know what the twist is, the twist is an unexpected turn of events that happened to the hero. There are times that the twist would come before the climax but traditionally, it would come after.

Last would be the resolution wherein the hero has already resolved the conflict. Now the author can choose to create either a happy ending or a bad ending here. It does not really matter as long as the hero has already resolved the conflict that he was battling during the earlier parts of the story.




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