As the title suggests, what is the best advice about noveling you have ever recieved?
For me, it would be to just write. I spend too much time worrying about how "good" something I've just written is and end up revising to no end. Nothing gets written. This advice (and the pressure of NaNoWriMo) helped me get past that and I'm almost done with the first draft of my novel (as well as having been a winner in last years NaNoWriMo).
Best Noveling Advice You've Recieved
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Someone once told me that if you're writing a novel, it's best to plan out something, just so you know where you're headed. But it is also highly important to not over-plan and complicate things as this could, depending on the case, mildly or severely limit your creativity. Of course, we should always plan a little something.
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Mmm the best advice.. Ok here goes.
Always write about something either you have experienced,want to experiance,you love,have loved,know everything about.
If you don't then well... You end up in a hole called-bad story!
Let me explain.
Say you want to write about dogs but you don't know anything about them, never had one,don't even like them. Then how on earth can you make it a good story-think about it.
Always write about something you know.
That's the best advice anyone can give.
I also agree with this too: Don't over-plan a story. Then its too planned. It's not a story. It's a planning. A story is a happening.
Hope I helped.. x -
Kaka, that's what research is for.
Considering how OCD my inner editor is, the best advice I've ever received is to save rewrites and editing for the second draft. The first draft is meant to suck so that all future drafts are less sucky. -
The best Advice: You don't suck!!!! It's okay to write badly that's why you go back to edit.
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Probably the best advice I've gotten is "Find your character's heart's desire." Being bad at any sort of planning, this means I have a way of establish a plot of sorts.
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From J.C Burke, Notice things going on around you.
And Really SHOW, not TELL. This is mostly ignored, but is really good advice when your editing, how do you show someone is a dramaqueen? they do not stomp, they strut, they do not mumble, they have their nose in the air.
Look at a character, you have a mind set like, they are a little ditzy. then think how many times you actually show this in the novel, if they suddenly drop this after a few times early on, it doesn't really work out.
And a site that has helped me: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadWriting
Click a link, I dare you, you will never stop. -
Put some of yourself in the characters. Little things that you love about yourself. Because if you love your characters then the readers will too. And that's really what you need most.
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"It's been an honour Sushi."
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Oh, I've never seen this club's forums before, though it seems like they are really interesting. This is the best advice I've heard from Brandon Sanderson, though I think he heard it from somebody else: First five novels you write will suck, so sit down and write six.
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