When you start to writing a novel, which may have something in mind. Perhaps you’ve had a story in his mind for months or years or maybe there is some character that has developed over time, and you would like to create a story around him or her. Maybe you have nothing in mind but have always wanting to write a novel. Well, here’s your chance!

There are two types of novels: the story driven and character driven. Story driven novels happen when you have a specific story you’d like to tell, and let the plot move at the pace of the novel and define the characters. Driven by the novels of characters are the opposite – it begins with a character or several characters, and builds the story around them, based on how you feel they would act or behave.

In any case, I think it is important to know your characters very well.

If you do not know how to start and have no ideas for a story or characters, here is the easiest way to get started:

1. Decide who you want your story is about more than what you want it to be about.

2. Start designing your character – what makes him or her? How does he or she speaks? What makes him or her? What is their name? Write down everything you can think about this character. You can always go back and change things once you start typing. This is just to give you an idea that this “person” is.

3. Once you have your main character, you can begin to define the secondary characters. Decide on your relationship with the main character, and write down everything you can about them. Once again, you can always go back and change things later.

4. After you arrive with a few characters, you may be starting to have ideas of what will happen to these characters. You must at least have an idea what kind of novel will be, love story? A mystery? A thriller? All you have to do is start typing and let the characters guide the story. The better you know your characters, the more you realize that history is already there, is simply written down.

5. Remember to be faithful to your characters. If your main character is afraid of the dark, would not go out at midnight to investigate a noise they heard. Your readers pick up on this.

Happy writing!

Writing A Novel

Excessive Adverbs

Try to avoid using adverbs in your writing, especially after the dialogue. An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or other types of words, phrases and clauses, and generally have few adjectives ending in the suffix-ing. It will distract the reader from his story. There are too many cases, “he said incredulously,” or, “he quipped.” A good story or the dialogue will make the tone your are trying to create without the need for an additional descriptor.

Description excessive

The description is very different from the specific details that are necessary in a good novel. Description, however, may delay its history. Use this rule of thumb for deciding whether to provide a description of his writing – is bound to intrigue and to advance the story? If the answer is not cut. Writing is all about moving the plot, and if you pause to provide a two page description of a building, no matter how nice, that stops the action. The pace is everything. Join the action.

Avoid generalizations

Unlike the excessive description, specific details are very important for history. Take a moment to the name of a street or a restaurant, or briefly describe a dress, made all the difference to your readers. I recently read a book that I shall not name, who gave no further details. It made me so mad! He talked about a dress she had chosen for that night, but he has not said a word about it! You could say I was a little black dress or a slinky red evening gown, or a summer dress with flowers. That did not provide important details, actually took in its history. It is less credible. Most readers have a little imagination, but it needs some work. Expect to find all the details is unprofessional and, frankly, a bit lazy.