Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 0:27:05 GMT -6
If you have thoughts in your head, especially negative ones, it's difficult to concentrate on writing. At least for me it is. Writing should be a pleasant activity that brings mental well-being, but it also becomes difficult, because private life forces its way into the mind and extinguishes the therapeutic power of writing. Is it possible to forget your private life and concentrate totally on writing? If you have an answer, you are welcome. 4 – Consider writing a job Because writing a novel is work. Not a job like the others, we don't get paid at the end of the month, there is no contract that commits us to writing - at least until we start publishing and some publisher "forces" us to write more novels - there are no paid holidays nor paid mutual. It is a job because it requires skills, dedication, seriousness: it is conceptual and manual work.
It is a job, above all, because the writer is a creative person who creates a salable product , which someone else will then sell - if he proposes the manuscript to a publishing house - or who will sell himself - if he self-publishes. Even if for all of us writing is a hobby, because it doesn't give us food, it doesn't allow us to experience creative writing, Special Data considering this writing as a job and never as a hobby makes us look at our novel as a product on which to pour the best of us. Our novel will have to become a commercial product, to be sold to the public: there will be people who will open their wallets or connect to their online bank to buy our story and read it. This alone should be enough to consider creative writing a job . 5 – Proceed in small steps A novel is written in the same way as a house is built: starting from the project and then preparing the foundations, otherwise the house will collapse before anyone can even live in it.
This is a simile I like to use often. For me the novel project is indispensable. If you try to read the plots of some novels on Wikipedia, for example The Adventures of Pinocchio , you will see that they are very detailed. In this case the plot is over 3000 words. My PU's is just over 1000. Too short, in my opinion. The secret, if we want to call it that, is to transform the plot into a subject . The plot developed as if it were a story. And it is done by writing the plot of the chapters and then uniting everything into a single discourse. I envy writers like Stephen King and Bernard Cornwell who, they say, have everything in their heads and don't know how their story is evolving. Instead, I need to see it all, to also know more or less how it will end. Proceeding in small steps has a great advantage: with each passing day the end of the novel will be closer and closer. Guaranteed.
It is a job, above all, because the writer is a creative person who creates a salable product , which someone else will then sell - if he proposes the manuscript to a publishing house - or who will sell himself - if he self-publishes. Even if for all of us writing is a hobby, because it doesn't give us food, it doesn't allow us to experience creative writing, Special Data considering this writing as a job and never as a hobby makes us look at our novel as a product on which to pour the best of us. Our novel will have to become a commercial product, to be sold to the public: there will be people who will open their wallets or connect to their online bank to buy our story and read it. This alone should be enough to consider creative writing a job . 5 – Proceed in small steps A novel is written in the same way as a house is built: starting from the project and then preparing the foundations, otherwise the house will collapse before anyone can even live in it.
This is a simile I like to use often. For me the novel project is indispensable. If you try to read the plots of some novels on Wikipedia, for example The Adventures of Pinocchio , you will see that they are very detailed. In this case the plot is over 3000 words. My PU's is just over 1000. Too short, in my opinion. The secret, if we want to call it that, is to transform the plot into a subject . The plot developed as if it were a story. And it is done by writing the plot of the chapters and then uniting everything into a single discourse. I envy writers like Stephen King and Bernard Cornwell who, they say, have everything in their heads and don't know how their story is evolving. Instead, I need to see it all, to also know more or less how it will end. Proceeding in small steps has a great advantage: with each passing day the end of the novel will be closer and closer. Guaranteed.