Do you know that feeling when you’ve created a brand new world? Of your very own? It happens to me, sometimes. I’m a hobby writer, and am currently writing a children’s/YA novel (more information on that soon). Well, it isn’t much fun to write books about home and school. At least, not for me! Heck, [...] Click to continue reading »
The Big Picture of a Novel – Part III
First of all, if you only just came here, you might want to check out the first and second parts of this article for more information. And next, without any further ado: Click to continue reading »
No Method? No Problem!
[Note: The title of this post has been inspired from one writing book, No Plot? No Problem! I haven't read it though.] Let’s say you’re writing a first draft of a novel. The dreaded first draft. And of course you are writing it very slowly — unless you are an exceptional writer. Then you read [...] Click to continue reading »
Getting Bogged Down in Editing – Help!
Does the edit-as-you-go method work? Or does it not? Is it the best method out there, or the worst? If it does work, for whom does it and for whom it doesn’t? It works, yes. But only for a few people. There are many people for whom it does not work. What they do: Click to continue reading »
The Big Picture of a Novel — Part II
In the first part of this post I started explaining about The Big Picture of a Novel. In the second part I will start the process of how to actually be aware about it. Click to continue reading »
Conflict is Necessary to Make it Spicy
Get ready for some more writing advice. Today’s post is an important one — for me at least! — and I hope it will be interesting for you. When you are writing a novel, what is the important thing to consider? Of course there are many important things. I wrote the wrong words. To correct [...] Click to continue reading »
The Big Picture of a Novel
For me, writing a novel isn’t the same as writing the short story. The two are very very different, and that’s not for me. That’s saying for everyone. Writing a short story of 1000-2000 words means you don’t have to worry about the big picture. You just write a gripping event which happened one day [...] Click to continue reading »
A Schoolboy Author
Hello, all. Let me first introduce myself. I am Idrees from the city Mumbai in India. My interests are—if you have not seen them already—are mostly reading and writing. I have read more than a hundred of books and this is my second oldest hobby, as I was reading short Indian tales when I was [...] Click to continue reading »
