tips

[Cjg1075]

Hey im writing a book anyone have some tips?

[Fiction]

I usually only write short stories so not sure how relevent this will be... but first of all set the scene and if it's a story where you wanna cause an impact of some kind make sure this contrasts heavily to the bit of the story you want to have an impact on people. try to build up the tension and make sure it climaxes well cause this is what really makes a story exciting :)

[Syvelocin]

I'm currently working on a book that has been in progress for almost two years :P I have a few bits of advice from my experiences.

-Connect with your characters. Make them so important to you or so interesting that you like them a lot. Or base them off of real people, but don't make it too obvious who you based them off of. The more you like your characters, usually the more developed you make them. The more you develop and understand your characters, the more real and vivid they come out in your writing.
-Read. Read read read read read. And read. And do some more reading after that. Reading to a writer is like watching a football star play football to an aspiring athelete, or going to see a musical to a hopeful broadway actor. Reading is pretty much guaranteed to make you a better writer. It can't assure that you will be a phenominal writer, but it will improve your writing and ingrain more vocabulary to use in your writing. And of course, the more words you have to use, the more accurately you can describe something in your book.
-Make it interesting. Of course, you probably wouldn't continue writing if it wasn't interesting. But you'd be surprised. You don't have to have a defined plot and conflict yet, but make sure you have one by about half-way through.
-Never go the predictable route. For instance, mine is set in a boarding school. I'm sure you could come up with a few stereotypical boarding school stories. If you add in that in some way, my book could be considered romance, then you get a further stereotype set up in your head about what the book could possibly be about. A good goal to keep in mind is to break that stereotype in any way possible. So you make the reader feel like the story is going to be a happy love story between these two school kids. But you should take the reader by the throat and slap them a few times, figuratively. WRONG. The story is going to be the exact opposite of what you think it's going to be about, and then you as the reader will be surprised, intrigued, and will want to read on.
-Make sure you know what you want to express. You don't have to have an actual theme, as readers will create one for you when they read it. But think about something important to you that you want to show this audience.
-You cannot create something completely original, remember that. No matter how hard you try, it will be based off of something. Artists can't create something new, they can only borrow and make it their own. So if your story starts to sound like the plot of some Shakespeare play, don't fret. You can still make a memorable novel out of that idea.
-Perservere. Never drop your book, unless you become genuinely tired of the idea. If you start not wanting to write, sit there and come up with that awesome plot twist that will get you back into writing it.
-Get into the characters' heads. Writing a book really encorporates more than just English and grammar. You really have to be a literary actor. Put yourself in that character's shoes, feel what they are feeling. Or better yet, talk to your character. If you think this is weird, I don't believe you're a writer ^.^ All writer's are a little bit on the eccentric side. A lot of writers will talk to themselves or the characters, as if they are talking to another person. It's a good sign you know the character well enough. I have never written out a character development. My characters just grow in my head until I can write ten pages on their apearance, history, personality, quirks, etc.

Hope I could help :P