Back To Basics

Writing a novel requires skills, imagination and an enquiring mind. Some research skills and the ability to visualise. A dogged determination to write to the very last word.

Writing a novel, irrespective of the genre requires the writer to put a bit of themselves into each page. Utilising experiences you yourself have endured; good or bad times, to make up part of the fabric of your storyline.

Variables of novel writing

1. Ideas

2. Plot development

3. Descriptive writing

4. The narrative voice

5. Viewpoint

6. Dialogue

7. Characterisation

8. Emotions

9. Outlines

10. Generating the hook

11. Creating obstacles