How To Complete Your First Book In Three Months Or Less
Have you a fantastic idea for a novel that you are sure will be a smash best seller, if you could only get it out of your head and on paper? Would you love to have written a novel, but aren’t quite sure how to actually get started? Well, relax, this is your lucky day. You’re about to learn how to write a novel in three months or less. You’ll need a couple of hours a day, a good deal of persistence, and some limber fingers (you’re going to be doing a lot of typing).
The first thing to do is to create all your main characters. Start off with a physical description, then an emotional description. List all of their strong points and weak points. Describe their background, where they came from, and their family history. Imagine them in several different scenarios, and see how they’d react. Even interview them if you can, and imagine what their answers would be. This step should take about two weeks.
After that, you’ve got to hash out the basic plot line. Break it down into small chunks, called steps. This are the smallest element within scene that can be described in one or two sentences. You can write these sequentially on a piece of paper, you can write each step on a flash card so you can rearrange them as you like, or you can use some available software that was designed specifically for this step. Give yourself a couple of weeks for this step.
Believe it or not, next comes the easiest part, the writing. Since you’ve already figured out the character and the basic plot, you shouldn’t have too much trouble actually writing everything out. Don’t worry about mistakes, or even filling a page with gibberish. Just keep writing without stopping. If you’ve done sufficient work building the characters and the plot, this part should actually be pretty easy. Give yourself a month to do this. If your book is a normal sized novel, you’ll need to write two or three thousand words a day. Get your coffee pot fired up, and turn off the TV for a month.
Now that the rough draft is finished, it’s time to go through it a few time. The first time, just go through and correct the grammar and spelling mistakes. Resist the urge to correct everything else. The second and third time through, read through it slowly, and make any changes, and tweak it until it’s perfect. Give yourself another month to do this part.
And that’s it. You’re done. Two weeks to create the characters, two weeks to figure out the story line, a month to write it, and a month to rewrite it. Once you hand it over to your agent, you can get started on your next book.
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