- I have random scrap booking notes to compile that can be used towards a novel, I am testing these to see if they are worth using, for a strong original interesting novel.
- I have created time and periods of solitude to develop my story ideas.
- I will work on and define my story line, genre.
- I expand the idea by asking questions of it. I keep turning it in my mind. A neglected idea will go cold. I am starting to live with the story, developing it in my mind, as I go to sleep, when i wake, when i walk, drive and swim it is with me, growing. I bought a tape recorder so I could talk my ideas then load them via my voice to text program, into my draft notes..
- At each stage of development, I test the idea against real life, especially against my childhood and the children and adults I know, to see if it sounds authentic.
- Using, a series of post it note or index cards or a post it note style computer program I will interweave my short stories and notes, then turn this patchwork quilt of information from life, onto a fiction that tells a story I feel is worth saying. This is the time I form the backbone of the story, the all important, PLOT. Everything else in the story will hang from this spine; I still have a lot to learn to produce a good plot for fiction.
- I hope to get the story line feeling, so real to me that it has a life of its own, by November when I will begin to write the novel as a participant in NoNoWriMo .
- Edit, Edit Edit. trimming away material that does not further the plot and perhaps adding where impact is lacking. I have read some authors can do this up to 300 times, I have also read that no novel was ever published that did not have an error in it.
I guess this will be like an artist, painter, never being 100% happy with the the finished painting but knowing what it needs and knowing when to stop working on it.
Useful 'How to', Links
Links to learn about, Good Plots for Novels.
How to Create a Workable Outline
Plot, Theme, Character, Voice.
Good Plots for Novels.
Plotting a Novel.
How do writers make good plots for stories?
Good Books, Don’t Have to be Hard.
Creating Good Plot.
Top Tips for a Good Plot (pdf file)
Good Plots take Time.
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 My handwritten notes that I am converting to printed text using Dragon Naturally Speaking software, see headphones above. Below is my pile of finished with notes, scrunched up ready for the rubbish and my words are all safely stored and backed up, as printed text.
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