So, let’s head on in together… How to Start a Book: Blueprints vs. You won’t reach the finish line until you take your first step past the entrance to the maze. And it all begins with the same thing you have: an idea. People do, after all, write books every day. I won’t deny that writing a book is an ambitious undertaking.īut none of those words are synonyms of impossible. Because despite my initial question, maybe you don’t have to imagine this scenario-you have been there. Maybe you're even in the thick of it, right now. But you can’t see the finish line-that’s the whole point of a maze, after all-so you feel lost before you’ve even begun. You can turn either left or right, and you know that choosing the wrong direction will send you down the wrong path. It’s starting to feel like you’ve entered a maze. Should you start at Chapter 1, or figure out the ending first and work backward from there? Welcome to the Book Maze Should you just dive right in and start writing, or should you outline and plan the novel first? Your head is so full of your idea that you know you have to explore it, but you don’t know how or where to begin. Whatever your background may be, now you’re trying to figure out a path forward. Maybe you’ve never even attempted anything like a novel at all. Or, maybe you didn’t use an outline at all, and then you couldn’t figure out what to focus on for each chapter. Eventually, it killed your narrative momentum, and you lost interest. You kept losing track of where your characters were “supposed” to be according to your initial plan. Maybe you tried in the past, but you spent more time fussing with the outline than you did writing. You’re ready to take on a new challenge.īut you’ve never written this kind of long-form project before. It feels like the right next step for your writing practice-an ambitious step, sure, but not an insurmountable one. You’ve got an idea for a novel, and you think it’s a good idea, too.
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