Do You Have to Struggle to Find Out How to Write a Novel?
I spent almost a year reading how-to books on the writing craft and I surfed hundreds of websites. I studied techniques, went down dozens of blind alleys and finally wrote my first draft. A few months passed and I started to wonder, “Did it really have to be so hard?”
I wondered, “Shouldn’t all that information, the information it took me hundreds of hours of research to find, be in one place? Does the path have to be so bumpy for people trying to accomplish exactly what I accomplished only months before?”
I decided I had spent too much time searching the Internet and cobbling together valuable information to let it disappear without doing some good. So, I have started to put it all together for you in one place.
That being said, writing is not a series of steps, books to read or videos to write. You don’t find a secret formula and follow it. Writing is a process. You should explore these sites and take from them what you can. Some will resonate with you now, others later, and some never at all. Use them to sharpen your skills and employ them as strategies to uncover your strengths.
So, do you have to struggle to write a novel? Probably. Yes.
But, do you have to struggle to find out how to do it? Not as much as you think. The resources are there. I am not guaranteeing you will be published or write a bestseller because you find the resources. That isn’t the goal of this article.
The goal of this article is to encourage you to nurture your skills so you can fulfill a goal. It is about helping you keep a promise to yourself. I hope you will find your own process and refine it over time. There are tools, but it’s up to you to find the writer within.
Kit Calder is dedicated to helping aspiring writers follow their dream of writing their first novel. You can learn more by visiting www.squidoo.com/free-writing-classes.
Author: Kit Calder
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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