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Writing A Book- Part II
Author: admin, Category: Quick stories
Welcome back to Skywaybooks.com. Glad you could join us again.
Last week I started to tell you about getting started if you have decided to write a book. Now I hope you haven’t been sitting around not working on your book because I wasn’t there to tell you the next step. After all doing the actual writing is only part of it. Have you decided how many chapters you are going to have? How long will each chapter be? What is the name of the book going to be called? These are all things to consider and think about when you are not actually sitting in front of a computer and writing.
When I wrote my first book, “Diamond In The Rough”, sometimes my ideas for storylines or dialogue were happening so fast that my fingers couldn’t keep up with typing them onto the screen. That is not necessarily a bad thing because it shows your passion for your work. One of my rules for writing is not to force it. If you don’t feel like writing one day then don’t. When you read what you’ve written, it will sound like you made yourself sit there and write for a few hours. Another thing I did was I would write a few chapters and I would purposely not look at what I had written for a week or two. You will be surprised at what this will reveal. Your two main reactions will be either, this story still sounds good. Or you may react with, who wrote this stuff. It doesn’t make any sense. The key here is to make every page fresh and exciting.
As far as how many chapters and a book title, that will happen based on which way you want the story to go. If your main character is killed off in chapter three, then I don’t see it going too many more because the reader may not want to stick around for twelve more chapters to read about characters who had nothing to do with the story line. Coming up with a title is a little trickier. It should catch the readers’ interest, but also be relevant to what happens in the book. For my second book “You’re It” the title is derived from the game the boys are playing in the story. If I had called it “Become A Millionaire Playing in Las Vegas”. Well that would be a great eye catching title, but it has nothing what so ever to do with the story I am telling. Be creative, but be sensible as well.
So you managed over the course of a few months or even a year to put what we in the biz call a manuscript together. A manuscript is a book that is written, but necessarily edited or published yet. In my next blog I will you what you can do with your manuscript. Maybe that didn’t sound right. Well you know what I mean.
Until next week, have a great day and happy reading to everyone!