From Notes to Novelist

Write Your Novel.

I went from notes to novelist by commenting, in a diary of sorts, about being "retired" from a job. Yes, it took time, but you can do it too.

• Select a topic.
• Be passionate about it.
• Stir-in research, if needed.
• Start writing. 
  

Writing is therapeutic.

• Vent.
• Describe your feelings.
• What happened?
• Come to terms with it.

Sometimes, welling up emotion stops you.

• Take a break.
• Come-back in a day or three.
• Make notes.
• Dig deep for strength.

Tell your story.

• No one can tell it as well as you.
• Begin chapter one with the problem.
• Show the conflict and suspense.
• Move forward from chapter one with action.

Write every-day.

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