Saturday, October 25, 2014

Tips For Writing A Good Novel

By Patty Goff


Are you burning with passion to write a novel but do not know where to start? Well, you need not worry any more. We will look at a few tips for writing a good novel. The most important thing about coming up with a good novel is to have an interesting story line. What this means is that you must have an idea about what you want to write about before finally deciding to put it down in words.

Whether you are writing a work of fiction or factual one, you have to do adequate research. This may mean that you do some reading beforehand. You may also need to visit some of the places or characters you intend to include in your work. When you work is well researched, it gives credibility to the story easily wins the confidence of your audience.

Make sure that your story has a captivating plot. It should be something that your readers will remember and narrate to other people easily. When your events are chronologically linked the reader will be interested in trying to find out what follows next and will keep reading the book to the end. If you have several stories in your novel, there should be a general storyline.

To be a great writer, you need to learn how to help the reader use all their senses. Let them see, feel, taste, smell and hear the events that are going on in your story. Vivid descriptions of characters and events let the reader feel like they are part of the whole experience. Instead of pouring everything out yourself let your reader use their imagination whenever possible. The actions of your characters show who they really are.

Humor is an ingredient that you must make use of in your work. With properly used sense of humor, any form of writing is a good read. Whenever possible, use witty statements that will require your reader to use some intelligence to figure out where the funny part is. The funny parts of your story should be randomly placed so as to catch your readers off guard.

Make your stories as emotional as possible. Humans are created in such a way that memories are often related to some form of emotion be it love, hatred or indifference. Let your readers experience these emotions as they read through your work. Creating an emotional suspense ensures that the readers keep remembering the story for many days even after they have read it.

Embrace peculiarities in your work to give a human element. In other words, if you are using human beings as characters in your story let a variety of attributes come out. Let your characters act both rationally and irrationally as we all do when faced with different situations. This is how you will get the readers to relate to your work.

Whatever you choose to write, be unpredictable. Readers should not lose interest prematurely as this will hurt your ratings. Rather, they should always be met with the most unexpected. Generally, most readers would like to see good prevail over evil. Introduce twists and turns in your story so that the outcome is not so obvious. Let good prevail but after tremendous challenges.




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