Write A Good Book
How Do You Write A Good Book?
My friend isn’t out of high school yet, but she’d love to Write A Book and get it published. So I’d like to know how she would write a good book? So what skills and things would you need to do to write a good book! She really wants to know how. So that it is written really well from a literary point of view?
It’s a complicated craft, and everything one needs to know to write well can’t really be summed up in one post, but I’ll try to lay out some of the general rules. My advice to your friend would be:
1: Read a lot of good Books, and try to figure out what makes those books good. Read a few bad books, and figure out what they did wrong.
2: Write a lot, and practice.
3: Read a lot of instructional material on How To Write well (there are dozens of books and websites about this, I’ll leave a link); this’ll teach you a lot of general rules. You DON’T have to follow all those rules and do it all the time, but they’re still very useful to know.
4: Reason things out. Think as you go. Do your research and you’ll write a much better novel. Even if you’re writing fantasy, you still have to be logical in things like the way characters act and develop, or in hard facts like how much a horse needs to eat, that kind of thing.
5: All characters need real flaws, whether they’re the hero or villain. (“Real” flaws are something that might cause the character trouble or that they need to change about themselves.) Nobody is perfect, so no characters should be perfect.
6: Always revise. You WILL need to go back and change what you’ve written after it’s done, because nothing comes out perfectly the first time. Even really famous writers, like Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, had to do this before the finished novel was up to their standards. Some writers revise as they go; others find it more helpful to get a first draft out and then fix it later. Fix the big problems first (Things like boring scenes that go nowhere or entire characters that could stand to be removed) and then do the line-editing (I.E., polishing the prose and making it sound good.)
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Good luck =)
Writing A Book? Learn How To Write A Good Book
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