Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper

Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper

“We’ve reached the end of the course. Thank you for taking part. If you’ve been writing along with me and taking notes, you’ll hopefully have a clearer idea of the book you’re writing or that you’re about to start writing. It’s a big project you’re taking on. The course has been devised so that you can keep dipping into the lessons as you write your book. For the final project, I invite you to share a synopsis of your book along with a chapter that you feel represents your book. That chapter could be a part of the book that you’re really pleased with, or one that you might be struggling with, and would like some feedback on. I will read all the final projects and make suggestions. Take your time. I’ll be here for the next few years, so there’s no rush. The main focus now is your book and to work through it, regularly and playfully. Enjoy the process and keep moving forward so that you have a first draft to refine. To make it manageable for me and the other writers on the course, please limit the chapter you share to 1,000 words. Write a synopsis of about 250 words. As you work on your book, take notes about the themes and the main events of the story, so that when you come to write the synopsis, you have something to work with. Use the task of writing the synopsis as a way to clarify for yourself what the story is essentially about. A book is a huge project over many months and years, so it’s helpful to have various ways of trying to grasp the entire project in your head. At some point, whether you do it at the start or at various stages in the process, make a map of where your book takes place. This will keep you grounded in the book, it will give you insight into how the characters move in their world. It will also help you to think where you might go beyond your initial idea of the setting for your book.

Ideally, you will write every day. Writing daily will keep the book alive as you go about your business, and your encounters and experiences will feed into your book. Writing every day makes it easier to sit down and write every day! Skip a day or two, and it gets harder to get back into the world of your book. That’s the ideal, and that’s not always possible. Don’t beat yourself up. Work out what your rhythm is and stick to it. Some days, the writing will flow, and on other days it will be like pulling your own teeth. But if you stick with those 20 minutes or 1 hour of writing, there is always a reward at the end, and the reward is the writing itself, which, one page at a time, eventually adds up to a book. Thank you for enrolling in my course and I hope you've enjoyed it. See you in the forum. ”

Course summary for: Book Writing for Beginners: Develop Your Ideas on Paper

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 19 lessons (3h 21m)
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• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creativity, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing