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Yami-Honenuki-Tenshi — How to Write A Novel
Published: 2008-02-29 04:03:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 1844; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 31
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Yes, I made another tutorial. a one-shot one. ^^ Now watch as editors everywhere gather to kill me.#74. Tutorial.
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I've never even managed to go anywhere NEAR writing a novel! 
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heehee! I'm not past chapter one yet...
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I think I'll just write lots of short stories for now
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lol well, these steps seem to work for short stories too.
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haha yeah its pretty much the method i follow, though i often don't plan
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XD I love your tutorial. I think my way of writing a novel is rather different. When I outline, it goes more like this:
"Chapter 3
Cabriole goes to visit Blanche at her palace (called palais) without being invited, slipping in past the guards and demanding that she explain whatever the hell just happened with the Roman twins. He goes in and is looking around. It is dim, poorly lit (usually lit by mushrooms). He does not even realize that she is in the room in the shadows until he looks up at her. She sits very still and doesn't speak and when she does it's as though something's wrong with her. Before Cabriole can get anything out of her, however, Praenomen Fox comes in.
This is the first time Cabriole notices him. His tail twitches noticably and he has a black mouth. Fox orders him out after a confrontation. Stuff happens that lets him know Fox is a threat to more than his vanity at losing Blanche to him."
...Occasionally an excess of details, and more often a lack of them. <.<
Step 4 is really important for you, since you are delete-happy. But for me, since that's not a problem, I'd have to come up with a way to keep myself motivated to keep writing, which is hard. <.<
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mine seems to be about that detailed. I don't like to go into to much detail when I'm outlining it, or I get too into it and never finish...
*is labelled as Delete-Happy* Yur dang right I am!
I was going to put some tips down for how to deal with writer's block, as I have a few tricks that I use, but it was getting late and I wanted to go to bed. I might put them later and have you look at it again.
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I don't relaly have writer's block. I have depression. It depresses me that my project is so long and so not-near the halfway point.
While I'm writing I get ideas for images and mention them so I'll remember them later. I jot down everything that comes to mind when outlining.
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I get writer's block. very easy. it normally starts with "Now, something important has to happen here, but... I don't know what..." and then it's "Ah, crap, I can't seem to write anything..."
or it's "Hmmm... I was writing just fine last night, and then I saved it and went to bed... but now I don't know what I was writing..."
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Hmm, that sounds more like you didn't plan anything and so you can't remember what was going on. In which case, I get planner's block all the time, what with not knowing where the hell my story is going or what the plot should be. But I don't write anything I don't have planned first. Which is another problem with Croixenlierre: I only planned up to chapter 14. So after that, I have no idea what goes on. I know something that happens shortly after that, and from there to the middle of the book. But I have nothing connecting the two. <.O
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Yea, I have a lot of plannng issues. Like I kthere has to e a cause for certain things, because I have the end-result, but I don't have the thing that caused it, and then I have to come u with something plausible to cause whatever is trying to have happened.
wow, that was complicated.
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No, it wasn't. I know what I need, but I don't know what I need in the story to get it. XD Same thing.
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lol yur right you and i do abuse step five...
*opens the door to her room* quick you can hide in here until the heat dies down...
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*leaps into room, hiding under bed* Hey, that's where half our rp notebooks went!
lol I told you we abuse step five.
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excellent guideline -
makes a usefull draft tool 
--idea make a outline like this in OpenOffice
or an RTF file...
(RTF is wordpad , Openoffice is a freeware open source office suite style program with msword and corel program compatable file types)
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excellent guideline -
makes a usefull draft tool
--idea make a outline like this in OpenOffice
or an RTF file...
(RTF is wordpad , Openoffice is a freeware open source office suite style program with msword and corel program compatable file types)
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yea, I use wordpad a lot, but Microsoft word is my choice. I don't much like open office, not sure why but I don't...
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thats cool - well its prolly familiarity -
i figure everyone uses something different especially here at devart - sooo
why not use a universal file format..
:shrugs:
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well, either way, as long as it gets written, really. a lot of my writing comes after weeks of procrastination, and then I actually sit down and write. I have a chapter up where the character is just sitting staring at a blinking cursor, and after half an hour of doing that, I thought it might be a good scene, so that's how it happened.
familiarity is most likely it, since I've been using word since the second grade. Now it's 11 years later so I don't like to change my ways so quickly...
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lol no doubt.. - and understood
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