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RE: Good advice for starting a light novel?

(10-21-2013, 05:04 PM)Kreekakon Wrote: I'd suggest you give this entire thread a good read, and make ABSOLUTE CERTAIN if writing a novel is your thing:

http://forums.deletionquality.net/showth...Publishing!

I'll stick the thread under my year, it has much info about publishing which
i am not going to do, i am sure the novel won't be worth publishing. Thanks anyways.

(10-21-2013, 05:21 PM)Bridge Wrote: Don't know anything about writing novels but I respectfully disagree with Chrono. One should have a conception, at the very least a rough sketch of the entire story before starting. Inspiration can strike while writing and you of course should not resist that but to do everything as you go along is a mistake in my opinion. It is impossible to develop your characters and story if you don't have tight control over them. Before you start writing I'd recommend making a draft of an outline, letting it simmer for week or a few weeks and then return to it completely unattached. If you still feel it is compelling when the excitement has worn off, you should pursue it. If not, do another draft and repeat until you have something. Change plot elements or characters if you need to. The worst possible thing you can do I think is abandoning a good idea simply because you don't know what to do with it.

That's my two cents anyway. To recapitulate, I think it's necessary to know absolutely everything about your novel to be before writing if possible, because then instead of figuring out what happens as you're writing it, you can solve the more important issue of how to express it. Good luck.

I have to say, that i have pretty strong vision what concept is going to be, i've already planned how the story starts and how even it ends.
It took an year to plan every character and the whole concept of the story. My biggest concern is now, i am ready to implement it? How
should i start writing it? Do i have enough balls and mother tongue to write it? But of course these are the questions i can only answer myself.

And thank you for your effort btw.

I'll post some of the chapters here when i've translated and done with them.
But it'll take some time. Feel free to read.
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Good advice for starting a light novel? - by Red - 10-21-2013, 04:14 PM
RE: Good advice for starting a novel? - by Red - 10-21-2013, 04:58 PM
RE: Good advice for starting a novel? - by Froge - 10-21-2013, 05:03 PM
RE: Good advice for starting a novel? - by Red - 10-21-2013, 05:07 PM
RE: Good advice for starting a light novel? - by Red - 10-21-2013, 05:22 PM
RE: Good advice for starting a novel? - by Bridge - 10-21-2013, 05:21 PM



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