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My novel’s journey Part 1
(c) Jane maxfield 2010
Planning
Writing a novel is a long journey where you can pop out words, sentences, paragraphs, and even chapters to get the darn thing done. It does get lonely at times and you end up being the character or many and it takes a strain on themind. I have started a novel and write when I can, though I continuing to think about it—I get to en rich my characters and story line.
Planning is definitely the way to go. I got a big piece of paper and pinned it to my office wall and I also got notebooks folders etc, I found that a new notebook at times gave me inspiration on different ideas, so I have a few.
I organised my story arc and made four parts, so I have four writing pads and one novel journey journal bull dogged clipped together. I work in and out of parts as ideas come to mind. Each part is about 20,000 words, and my novel is in diary format, so I broke months down as chapters. I dread looking at it as to writing 80,000 words, so definitely plan and break it down to relieve the stress.
Sudden plots
The notebook is essential—most important!
Plenty of notebooks are the way to go or you may not be ecentric enough like me and have just one. I’m all over the place person plus I collect stationary, every time when at the shop I have to buy a notebook. Anyway, just get one.
You can have random thoughts about what you are writing and most of the time with me is I forget straight away.
You can go to a cafe and sit there and write stuff, even poetry. I wrote a poem by just blocking some of my brain out and used my other five senses of what was going on in the steet– if I didn’t have a notebook I would not of wrote it.
Anyway you might have to work on a plot by trying 50 millon ways of the way the words will sit good or youare not happy with a character– note it or chuck it!
Being at different places can give you different inspirations and ideas for your plots, and even bring out the best in your characters.
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