Writing Tips For Novice Authors

Writing Tips For Novice Authors

If you are account this commodity again you apparently accept asked yourself at some point in your life, "Do I accept what it takes to become an author?"
I accept that acknowledged authors, those who in fact address and accomplishment that novel, or book of poetry, or even that book of abbreviate stories, and see it all the way to publication, accept assertive characteristics.
Characteristics of Authors
1. They like to sit for hours in foreground of a computer awning (or with pen and paper), accounting (writing) away.
2. They anticipate about their book, even if they're not writing.
3. They are motivated to accomplishment their book.
4. They are motivated to proofread, adapt and alter their accomplished book until it is the best it can be.
5. They are motivated to broadcast their book.
6. Already they broadcast the aboriginal book, they are already alive on the next one.
If you answered yes to anyone of the above, again you accept a acceptable adventitious of attaining your dreams of acceptable an author. Don't accept to those humans who say it's a aggressive bazaar out there. Don't accept to those humans who say they've accounting 5 books and haven't had one appear yet. And don't accept to those humans who forward you aback your manuscripts! Accept to yourself. Accept to that close voice, the one that is whispering now. But delay until you get started. Already your book is accounting and published, that close articulation will be roaring! And the accomplished apple will apprehend about it.
I know, I know. I tend to be the optimist. But we accept so abounding pessimists in the book business, we abiding charge some added optimists around!
For you, the amateur biographer who would like to alpha autograph that aboriginal book, the best way to activate is to alpha writing. Yes, just sit down and do it. Stop the added activities, the television, the reading, the shopping, the chatting on the telephone, and acquisition the time to allot at atomic one hour a day to writing.
What’s one hour a day in the arrangement of things? It comes and goes like this, poof! What do you accept to appearance afterwards an hour of television? A apathetic yawn? If that aforementioned hour were spent on writing, again there would be a artefact in your hands, something that will be shared, hopefully, one day with others.
So, go ahead, shut the aperture to the blow of the apple for one hour (or more) and accomplish yourself adequate in foreground of the computer awning (or pen and paper). Let’s yield the aboriginal footfall to acceptable an author.
How To Activate
Foundation
Just like a architecture aggregation which builds a foundation to a home, you aswell charge to adapt a foundation for your career in writing. Don't skip this step, it's important.
Your "foundation" will abide of basal autograph skills. Bethink those English courses you took in top academy and college? If you don't bethink annihilation from those courses, again it wouldn't be a bad abstraction if you activate your old English textbooks, dusted them off a bit, and looked through their pages to brace your memory.
If you haven't taken any courses in artistic writing, you ability accede signing up for one. Analysis with your bounded association college. They generally action weekend and black classes, and sometimes even online classes. If you're on a budget, again appointment the accessible library and assurance out books accordant to writing.
In addition, it would be actual advantageous to accompany a autograph accumulation (online or in your bounded area) that critiques your plan and gives you the befalling to appraisal also. The accumulation provides admirable abutment and an admission to acuminate your abilities as you accretion acquaintance in writing, as able-bodied as acknowledgment to added people's writing. For example, Writing.com is a acceptable archetype of an online ability that provides abounding opportunities to allotment your writing, and get your plan rated and reviewed. If you wish to accompany a appraisal or analysis group, it offers that also.
The additional footfall to acceptable an author, is to accept the appropriate tools.
Tools Needed
Besides a adequate chair, affluence of lighting, and a quiet room, you will charge a computer with a chat processing affairs (e.g., Microsoft Word), a printer, and affluence of paper.
Why a computer? Aboriginal of all, publishers about will appeal a archetype of your files beatific to them on a billowing disk. Added importantly, alive with a chat processing affairs will aid you in abounding means appear acceptable a appear author. It will accommodate the befalling to save your plan as a Chat file, afterwards accepting to use up bags of cardboard (as with a typewriter). This abundantly aids you in befitting your plan organized. It aswell gives you the adaptability to adapt and re-edit ample sections of your plan bound by acceptance you to advance the archetype and adhesive functions.
Other advantages of application a computer chat processing affairs is that it provides spell analysis capabilities, and aswell helps you calculation the bulk of words per page. In addition, if you wish to aroma up your cant (For example, if you like to use the chat "walk" often, and are accepting annoyed of that word), abode your cursor on the chat "walk", hit about-face F7. It will accord you a account of synonyms you can accept from - like stroll, amble, etc.).
The time adored by application a computer is actual valuable. It gives you added time accessible to write! Of course, if you don’t accept the aloft materials, don’t let that stop you from autograph that book! Application a pen and cardboard is altogether fine. Books were accounting with these two basal accoutrement for centuries.
Let’s accept you are application a computer and a Chat processing software. Aboriginal of all, afore you activate writing, anatomy a subdirectory that you can add all your capacity to. Maybe you apperceive the appellation of your book already. Fine, again anatomy a subdirectory application the name of the title. Afterwards you accomplishment autograph that aboriginal affiliate (oh joy!), just save it as Affiliate 1 beneath the subdirectory. If you are autograph a book of poetry, again you ability wish to save anniversary composition as a abstracted file.
When I address my capacity for my novel, I architecture them in bifold amplitude mode, with a Times New Roman 11 font. All the margins are at atomic one inch. This way it will be accessible for arrangement submission.
Try not to add your page numbers until the actual endure revision. Page numbers consistently change if you’re revising, so delay until the end.
Finally, addition acumen for accepting a computer is for Internet access. As a writer, you will accept opportunities to abide your fiction online, such as http://www.Writing.com, or even your online autograph online for e-zines, such as http://www.articlecity.com. Any adventitious you can get to address online, do it. As continued as it doesn't yield too abundant time abroad from your book. It's aswell a chargeless way of announcement yourself afore the book is even published.
So you charge to antithesis your time in autograph that book, honing your autograph skills, appointment your plan forth the way for others to critique, and announcement yourself. Can you do it? Of advance you can!
The third footfall to acceptable an columnist is:
What to Address
If you are planning to address a novel, it would advice to apperceive what accepted class your book is traveling to be in. Will it be in the romance, mystery, or science fiction category? If you don’t know, yield some time and anticipate about it. Apprehend some books in those genres. Which books assume to allure you the most? It’s awful acceptable that you’ll be autograph in the class that you like to read. My alternative is affair because I apprehend those types of books the most. Already you adjudge the category, again you are afterpiece to autograph that novel!
For poetry, you ability alpha by autograph a composition and appointment it to a balladry journal, or a balladry contest. Accretion acknowledgment for your poetry. Accompany a appraisal accumulation so you can acuminate your balladry skills. A chapbook usually consists of about 25-35 poems. For a balladry book, you'll charge at atomic 60 pages of poetry, if not more.
Types of Novelists
I accept activate over time, that there are two types of novelists. The aboriginal blazon is the biographer who prefers cartoon up a angle or plan of what they will address about. The additional blazon prefers to address whatever comes into their apperception at that moment.
You adjudge which biographer you will be.
Type 1 Novelist
They activate by anecdotic the characters, their names, personalities, and sometimes their motives. Again they adjudge if and area the ambience will yield place. If will it yield place? If it takes abode afore the 1900’s, again it will be advised historical. Also, will the ambience be in the country, in a city-limits (which city?), in a abode (whose house), on a cruise ship? That needs to be authentic also.
Once those decisions are made, they address abrupt sketches of anniversary chapter. It could be a page or two long. Already all this is done, again the absolute autograph begins. If this adjustment works for you, again feel chargeless to use it. It may yield some time, but you will become added assured about what you’ll address already you go through this antecedent process.
Type 2 Novelist
What if you’re the blazon of being who doesn’t wish to absorb all that time autograph proposals and appearance sketches? What if you’re like me, who prefers to just address whatever comes into your head? Again do it! Sit down and alpha writing. Address anything.
As the adventure develops, something admirable begins brewing in your mind. Something alleged creativity. I’ve bent myself hours afterwards I accomplished autograph a chapter, and I’ll be advancing dinner, or walking somewhere, and a arena from my atypical will activate to unfold. It’s alleged artistic botheration solving. My apperception is alive to break the botheration that the autograph presents it, even admitting I’m not actively writing. If I get those urges, I anon stop what I’m accomplishing and jot down my thoughts. It’s helped me abounding times, decidedly if aggregate clicks together.
How Continued Will It Take?
It took me about two years to address and acquisition a administrator for my aboriginal novel, Lipsi’s Daughter. For added people, it may yield best or shorter, depending on the bulk of time they acquiesce for autograph and how abounding pages they are writing. I apperceive of authors that took six, seven, up to twelve years to address their aboriginal book. I aswell apperceive of a acclaimed columnist who writes two novels a year!
So unless you activate autograph that aboriginal page of your book, you'll never apperceive how continued it'll yield you to address it. Go ahead, accomplish that aboriginal step, and acceptable luck!

About The Author Patty Apostolides is an author and poet. She has written several articles as well as published the novel "Lipsi's Daughter." More information can be found on her website: http://www.geocities.com/10500bc/index.html Liendou@Writing.com