Guide to Writing Novels (NovelToon Official)
1.4 What if there is a story in mind but it cannot be written?
Many people who want to try to work or a novice writer who will meet with this problem, “Imajinasiku very big, many ideas, but can not be written, how?”.
Regarding this issue, we need to first look at our current level, examine first the location of the problem.
1). You have never written a novel, you just want to work, the inspiration in your brain is actually just a piece, no cause and effect, not enough to be a story. Incomplete ideas, of course you can't write.
Solution:
Imagine your idea is a tree trunk. To be a whole tree, you need to add twigs and leaves to your inspiration, write down the tree picture, let it be a complete story.
2). You have never written a novel, you have no habit of writing, you always beat around the bush and wait until everything is ready to move the pen, after which you realize that you cannot write anything.
Solution:
Defeat the disease of delaying your time, do not waste your inspiration and arrogance, time will drain your ability to write. If you wait until you think you are ready, you will still encounter many problems, even though you have made a lot of preparations. Why can't you write well? Maybe that's what you think. You'll realize writing a novel is much harder than you think, and then you might just give up. That's unfortunate...
The right action is, immediately write when you want to write, cultivate the habit of writing, it does not matter if it is not good, just assume it is training. You will get experience from each exercise, and increase slowly, then you will realize that writing is not that scary. The more you write, the easier it will be.
3). You try to put together a lot of complete stories, but in the end you are not satisfied. Maybe you are a little too perfectionist.
Solution:
All good works go through the revision stage. You have to let go of that perfectionist nature, write boldly. Even a wise writer like Ernest Hemingway didn't care about the first draft either. Then what are you considering? Write it down first, you can revise it if it's not good. Do not stress yourself to immediately write a great work, writing skills can not be mastered in just a short time. A perfectionist without a purpose will only find it difficult to write, can not bring pleasure.
Solution:
It means you write too little, your imaging skills are lacking, your speech and thoughts are not comparable. There are no shortcuts, so much reading and writing. You may have learned some writing tricks, but lack of practice that results in you not being able to use the tricks you learn.
5). There are certain plots and details that cannot be written down
Solution:
This problem has two situations.
The first is that because you don't know the plot well, you never experience it, you can't feel it, so you can't write it down. But actually this situation is not difficult to resolve, writers who have never been in a relationship can write a romantic story well.
You can take help from the movie. No matter what theme you write, you can still see the work of the film with the appropriate theme, especially the background picture, see the environment directly, then the example of how the film pours the idea of the story.
The plot that is hampered can also be helped, because in your life you do not have a living setting that can be used, you can at least be helped by the background of similar film works, such as, you can replace the characters in the film with your novel characters, imagine with your brain, set them with characters that you have designed, starting from actions, words, and can be described with different points of view, like the camera angle in the movie.
The second is that you already have a background in your mind, but don't know how to describe it. This actually has to do with a certain depiction trick.
For example “image five senses”, which starts from the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, this can at least help you in all the background depiction of the place and its surroundings. The depiction of the five senses is very useful, because it is developed from the point of view of people, can have a real effect on the reader.
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